My friend Jordan Smith is a jack of all trades at Edy’s Grocer in Brooklyn. He works catered events, develops and bakes many of the pastries that are sold every day, makes the focaccia for the dinner menu, keeps the sourdough starter going and also bakes things for big catering orders, including wedding cakes.

“Sometimes, you know, someone might request 300 brownies. So I’m the brownie person. If it goes in the oven, I’m the person,” he recently told me. He also writes a Substack newsletter I’ve really been enjoying called Save Me a Slice, because he has always wanted a place to put his recipes.