About Me

Hmm... what to eat?

Hi, 

My name is Pauline Rhoads and I am the author of this blog. I have been obsessed with food, pretty much my whole life. My mother, being the best cook in the world, forcibly piled food onto our plates ordering "eat! eat!" As a result, I ate more than was humanly possible. 

I went on to earn a Pastry and Baking Arts degree from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, and then did an internship at Gramercy Tavern. On the last day of my internship, as I was mixing the enormous bowl of their famous muffin batter by hand (it was so big you could not use a spoon), I somehow managed to tip the bowl over, hitting myself on the head with such force I practically lost consciousness and had to leave early. My boss just shook her head, and I realized working in a restaurant was probably not for me.

I decided to finally put my English degree to use, and got a job working as a food writer and Assistant Editor at Greenwich Magazine in Connecticut for a few years. I loved writing, but I wanted to write and cook.

It only seemed natural to create a food and recipe blog. Luckily, I have the scariest, toughest group of food critics right here at my disposal – my husband and kids. If I don't get a unanimous "this is the best I have ever had!", the recipe goes right in the trash. When my family is not eating food, we are thinking, talking and reading about food. We are testing and perfecting recipes all the time. Our idea of fun is to hold blindfolded taste tests. Every weekend, we make bagels, bread and wood fired pizza  in our back yard pizza oven that my husband built. We even make our own wine. In Rome, we went to every gelato store in the city to determine which was the best, which meant eating gelato three times a day. You get the picture.

I could keep these amazing recipes all to myself... or I could share them and make the world a tastier place. I decided to be "The Better Crumb."  Besides, if there's one thing my mother taught me, it's how to be generous. 

Thanks for reading!

Pauline

Pauline Rhoads was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. She now lives in Connecticut with her husband Don, a patent attorney in NYC and her three girls, Emma, Elizabeth and Anna. She has a stepdaughter Katie, who is a school teacher in Delaware.