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Bodega Bakes: Recipes for Sweets and Treats Inspired by My Corner Store Socks and the distractingly handsome (andA baking book bursting with joy that will have you hightailing it to the oven and planning a trip to your local corner store. Growing up in the Bronx, Paola Velez's happy place was the bodega, a unique world full of color and flavor where the shelves were stocked with everything from M&M's to Muenster cheese to majarete (Caribbean corn pudding) and, of course, its own cat (IYKYK). Before she was a James Beard nominated chef, Cherry Bombe cover girl,