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BY GERALD OCHS
Rappahannock News Special Writer
Ronnie Pelletier is but another incredible and talented Rappahannock woman. They are herbalists and carpenters and marketeers and doctors and writers, editors and actresses and singers and dancers and potters. We have horticulturists and horsewomen and painters, mothers and bank clerks and scientists and farmers. We are fortunate.
Not only is Rappahannock blessed with a natural beauty and serenity, but it has been a spiritual magnet for women with an unusual capability to be multiply-accomplished.
One of Ronnie’s many talents is as a designer and creator of wedding and other VSE (very special event) cakes. For eight years she has been applying her kitchen virtuosity to the task of blending the gastronomic with the graphic (or, as her French grandmother might have said, ze gastronomique et ze graphique) to formulate delicious florally-swathed confections.
You might order a chocolate cake iced with bittersweet chocolate and hazelnut butter cream and accented with roses, or a spice cake with orange butter cream icing and daffodils, or maybe even a
lemon cake with
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