Debbie pays tribute to Akron's Diamond Deli carrot cake

Debby Stock Kiefer, who spent 28 years at the Beacon Journal before she took the 2006 buyout, paid tribute to Akron's Diamond Deli, 378 S. Main Street, and its carrot cake with cream cheese frosting on her cooking blog, "Reckless Tarragon."

Debby moved to Columbus to be near her ailing parents when her husband, Joe Kiefer, left the BJ copy desk for the Columbus Dispatch on New Year's Eve, 2007.

As for her cooking blog's title, it comes from an Ogden Nash quote: “There are certain people, whom certain herbs, the good digestion of disturbs. Henry the VIII divorced Catherine of Aragon because of her reckless use of tarragon.”

Click on the headline to check out the Diamond Deli recipe, and others, on Debby's blog.

If you go to the white rectangle near to the white "B" on orange background at the upper left and type in Debby Stock and press the "Enter" key, you'll see other stories about Debby in the BJ Alums blog.