DESSERT. IS THERE ANY FINER, sweeter word in the English language? Whether it is cake or pie, cupcakes or cookies, dessert has always meant saving the best for last. No one at the Loveless Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee, knows this better than Alisa Huntsman, author of Desserts from the Famous Loveless Cafe. This book documents the recipes she carefully created and re-created as part of preserving this iconic restaurant’s place in America.
After a major restoration in 2004, Alisa was brought onboard to develop an entire dessert menu for the Loveless Cafe. Yes, even after decades of serving meals to legions of road-weary travelers, countrymusic celebrities, hungry Vanderbilt Hospital doctors, and Belmont College freshmen, the restaurant still did not offer a large selection of desserts. This tradition harkened back to…