No. This is not a photo of Bjork. This is a photo of Anna Pavlova, the Russian prima ballerina after whom New Zealand’s national dessert was named.  (Disclaimer: The Australians and the New Zealanders have been coming to culinary blows for years over credit for…

  I first made a trifle many years ago when I took cooking classes at a school in Seal Beach called La Bonne Cuisine. The school is long-closed but I still treasure many of the recipes from that experience. The original English trifle dates back…