Category Archives: Read ‘em And Eat

A Summer Toast to the Fall Reading Season

September 12, 2011 – 12:16 pm

My Facebook friends know that I have been chronicling a backyard vegetable garden project that a friend and I collaborated on. Of course, all summer long we’ve been bragging to friends that we would host a harvest garden party to celebrate all the wonderful produce we were sure to grow. What we didn’t expect was [...]

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The Novel Cook

May 6, 2011 – 4:30 pm

  This past month I have been busy creating a new blog over at blogger.com titled The Novel Cook.  It’s my attempt at peeling the layers off a book through it’s references to food.  I first thought about this after reading a piece in the New Yorker by writer, essayist Adam Gopnik.  According to Gopnik [...]

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Read ‘em And Eat: ‘The Elegance of the Hedgehog’

April 26, 2010 – 6:12 pm

This is my own version of the St. Petersburg Times’ online monthly feature Read and Feed that cleverly provides book club selections and food themed suggestions matched to the book’s plot. THE BOOK: Shop Indie Bookstores The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (2008) This is the upstairs-downstairs story of Renee, a middle age [...]

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Read ‘em And Eat: ‘Citizen Vince’ and ‘The Wiseguy Cookbook’

October 16, 2009 – 4:08 pm

I mentioned in a previous post that I was adapting the Read and Feed format originated by Tampabay.com that pairs books popular with local book clubs with food to serve at meetings.  Since my book club just read and discussed Citizen Vince, I thought it the appropriate book to launch Read ‘em And Eat. THE [...]

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Read ‘em And Eat

September 30, 2009 – 4:27 pm

I’m excited about introducing a new category to my blog.  This is my own version of the St. Petersburg Times’ online monthly feature Read and Feed that cleverly provides book club selections and  food themed suggestions matched to the book’s plot.   What I love about this format is that there are make it or [...]

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