Our cookbook of the week is Thyme for Dessert by food writer and photographer DL Acken with food stylist and author Aurelia Louvet. Article content

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Whether in Wales or the Gulf Islands, DL Acken loves cooking with what’s around her.

When I talk to the Gourmand World Cookbook Award-winning author and commercial photographer, she’s making her way to Salt Spring Island, crossing the Salish Sea by ferry. Though she travels a lot for work, dividing her time mostly between Vancouver, Brooklyn, N.Y., and London, U.K., Acken’s farm studio on Salt Spring is home base.

Acken has written and photographed many b

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