Welcome to Salt & Sentiment


Welcome to my offering of flavor-forward dishes and stories steeped in legacy, honoring the spectrum of food and feeling : comfort, joy, longing, nostalgia, pride and passion.

JOIN MY NEWSLETTER TO RECEIVE…

New recipes and kitchen tips and hacks to up-level your skills!


  • The Bess Pound Cake

    This pound cake isn’t just a cake—it’s the cake. The one that anchored holidays, easy Sundays, and sweet-toothed midnight cravings. Named after Mrs. Daisy J. Bess, affectionately “Granny Bess”, the matriarch whose hands knew exactly how “deuce-up” anything, this recipe has endured. Through the Bess Restaurant kitchen, bake sales, and my own baking business, it’s…

No posts

Alene

Why.

For years, I’ve been known as a cake artist. But lately, I’ve felt something deeper calling me back into kitchen, centered at the stove. Not just to create, but to cook. To write. To remember. To share. To preserve the recipes that raised me and find inspiration in the feelings they provoke. Salt & Sentiment is my chef’s table. Thank you for pulling up. Please stay a while. There’s more to come.


Follow us on Instagram

All the images in this demo website are from Unsplash.

Latest Recipes

Cheesecake candy canes candy powder tiramisu icing gingerbread. Chocolate croissant sugar plum candy.