I just finished Lunch In Paris: A Love Story With Recipes. My favorite kind of book. Author, Elizabeth Bard shares her story of giving up everything in the name of love. She finds herself in Paris with a man, no job, halting French skills, a market and a kitchen. She cooks her way into finding [...]
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This book had me holding my breath. A young girl. Years without speaking. She disappears into a wide and tangled woods. A mother waiting in fear. And the the daughter returns. She utters one word and the world tilts again. < This book by Tara French tells the story of Cassie Maddox, an …
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Ready Player One totally sucked me in on a cold Saturday. Set in a dismal, bleak future Earth, a massive online game is the source of most of the world’s education, happiness, and community. One trailer park teenage boy sets out on a quest to find a real world fortune hidden deep within the game. [...]
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I just finished Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. You may recognize her name as the author of PoisonWood Bible She shares an honest, elegant and humor filled story of her family’s journey to live out something they value for one year. Leaving behind a home in Arizona, they pack [...]
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A few of my friends got me The Truck Food Cookbook by John T. Edge for my birthday. Because they fully support my food obsession. It is filled with stories of entrepreneurial super-heros, locavore dining, food politics and tricked out trucks. Most importantly – there’s page after page of bonkers yummy good food. I made [...]
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I have read Everlasting Meal, Cooking with Economy and Grace three times. It’s been highlighted and underlined. The words of Tamar Adler are rustic, elegant, and chosen with care. Grace: We used to say it around the table growing up. Joining hands. Bowing heads Poking my brother under the table Saying thank you. …
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Thought I’d share a few of the books from my Summer Reading List (which is invented as I go) I do a reverse list – I read and if it’s a keeper it goes on the list. Coming Home to Eat by Gary Paul Nabhan. One mans journey to eat local begins an exploration of [...]
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I heard the siren call of a bookstore. I walked out pie-eyed with a new cookbook in hand. My kitchen has been full of happy endings. Pie endings. That fit in your hand. Handheld pies by Sarah Billingsly and Rachel Wharton. It’s filled with sweet and savory scrumptiousness in perfect palm sized proportions. It’s so [...]
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Earlier this year I went to my very first blogging conference. I was saved from wandering aimlessly in a sea of strangers by a group of ladies who had staked out a patch of carpet. Tiffany Manly of Sweet Phenomena was one of those friendly faces who invited me to hang out, chat and laugh [...]
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