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Copyright © 2009 by Gesine Bullock-Prado

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Published in the United States by Broadway Books,
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States as
Confections of a Closet Master Baker: One Woman’s Sweet Journey from Unhappy
Hollywood Executive to Contented Country Baker by Broadway Books, an
imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, in 2009.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bullock-Prado, Gesine.
My life from scratch / Gesine Bullock-Prado.
1. Baking. I. Title.
TX 763 .B94 2009
641.8′15—dc22
2009000945

eISBN: 978-0-307-80906-3

Illustrations by Raymond G. Prado

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