The Seasonal Baker: Baking All Year Round

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With the bus station only a five-minute walk from the festival entrance, it's the perfect way to get there. By train, the station is also just a short walk from the festival and has regular train services. Seasonal bakes and tips on growing your own produce by former The Great British Bake Off contestant, Michelle Evans-Fecci

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She lives in Tenby with her husband Ben Fecci (of our beloved and famous Fecci Fish and Chips), her teenage son Alfie, and a whippet called Rosie. Before Bake Off, she worked for Ben’s family business, Trade Canvas. Ben Fecci is a talented photographer who created all of the stunning imagery for Michelle’s new book. Temperature and specific humidity data come from the North America Regional Reanalysis (NARR) gridded dataset 39, produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). This high resolution dataset (32 km, daily observations) spans the geographic and temporal extent of our health data. Precipitation data come from Climate Hazards Group InfraRed Precipitation with Station data (CHIRPS) 40. Spatial averages are constructed using shapefiles for US counties from the United States Census Bureau and for Mexican states. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. We define three types of dynamic pattern observed in the location-specific time series within the dataset. Shallow-trough dynamics are defined as when the annual mean minimum incidence for a particular location exceeds 5% of the mean maximum incidence. Biennial locations are defined using the significance of the biennial signal using the Lomb-Scargle periodogram. We use a significance value of 1% (all p-values under 5% are shown in the chloropleth Supplementary Fig. 3a, as well as the ratio of biennial to annual Fourier amplitudes in Supplementary Fig. 3b 27). When running simulations for Fig. 3, we define chaotic regions as locations where the Lyapunov constant is positive. We consider the implications of our estimated climate effect for four locations in our dataset with exemplar dynamic patterns and timing of epidemic onset (Fig. 2b, c). In Fig. 2d we show the seasonal trajectories for these locations, with the mean monthly rainfall and humidity overlaid on our predicted transmission effect. Hennepin County, MN, an example of a location with biennial outbreaks, has large changes in predicted transmission over the course of the year, with maximum transmission in the winter months (Fig. 2c) when peak incidence also occurs (Fig. 2b). Kings County, NY, an example of a location with annual outbreaks, has a wintertime peak in predicted transmission driven by declining humidity, though not to the same extent as the biennial test case. In contrast, our model predicts that Miami-Dade County, FL, an example of a shallow-trough location, experiences peak transmission in the summer months driven by summertime rainfall. The dominance of the rainfall effect means that Miami experiences an increase in cases even as humidity increases, a reversal of the patterns observed over most US counties (Fig. 2b), which explains the early onset of the epidemic in this location.The uncertainty in the size of simulated epidemics depends on the relative role of precipitation in driving the transmission cycle in a particular location. For instance, the seasonal cycle of RSV in Sonora is mostly driven by changes to humidity (Supplementary Fig. 11), meaning that deviations from mean precipitation do not alter cycle dynamics. However, in Oaxaca, where humidity remains constant throughout the year, differences in future rainfall across CMIP5 models result in divergent cycle dynamics. High precipitation results in a bifurcation, leading to biennial outbreak cycles. Our modeling approach follows two steps 29. We first use the time series TSIR model, a discrete time adaptation of the SIR model 14, 41, to estimate the unobserved susceptible population for each location over time. Next, we use the estimated susceptible time series to construct an empirical transmission rate. The transmission rate is used as a dependent variable in a panel regression where the effect of climate is estimated. The TSIR model Place the butter, condensed milk, sugar, golden syrup and vanilla into a saucepan and heat gently until all the mixture has melted and is smooth. Michelle grew up on a farm in Bronwydd, near Carmarthen, cooking, baking and gardening by the side of her Mam.

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Beat the butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs together, then add the flour and mixed spice and thoroughly mix. Add the fruits and any liquid from the bowl, mix in the chopped nuts then divide equally between the two tins. Level the tops with a spatula and bake for 1½ hours. Michelle's favourite pavlova, bursting with seasonal fruit, features on the cover of her new book. Picture: Ben Fecci There are important caveats to our results. We made the decision to remove dummy variables in future projections so that annual variation in forced climate could flexibly determine transmission. However, this means our simulations do not account for non-climatic factors that may also structure transmission. We crudely tested this by using a common seasonal fixed effect which gave qualitatively similar results, reinforcing the robustness of our assumption. Developing a richer understanding of the mechanisms connecting climate to transmission would help validate our results further. Our model also does not take into account genetic sub-type of RSV 30 due to data limitations in the US and Mexico. We also do not consider age structure or potential secondary infections: secondary RSV infections are less severe 27. Nonetheless, we are able to capture the limit cycle structure of RSV dynamics well and elucidate multiple streams of evidence for a fundamental climate effect. Michelle grew up on a farm and learned from a young age how to grow vegetables and the basics of cooking and baking. She now lives in the beautiful seaside town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire with her husband Ben, their teenage son Alfie, little whippet Rosie, and two cheeky hens. As a family they love to be out in the garden where they grow a lot of the fruit, vegetables and herbs that Michelle uses in her everyday cooking. The book shows just how easy and rewarding it is to grow your own produce.When you plan your seasons ahead of time, you can decide exactly how many posts you want, and pre-design your posts so that you can still show up, even when you are busy baking. Almost every holiday has special food associated with it May is another huge month for bakers because we have graduations, wedding season beginning, Mother’s Day, teachers’ appreciation, recitals, and extracurricular activities with the school year wrapping up. Proms happen in May as well as first communions and Memorial Day weekend