Shop Indie Bookstores Quirky I like and Aimee Bender’s The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake certainly fills that bill. This is a strange little fable like story about Rose Edelstein, her family and how Rose copes with a sudden ability to taste people’s emotions in the food they fix. Not a good thing as we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
December 13, 2008 – 7:29 pm
Beautiful memoir and wonderful recipes. This post was submitted by joe.
December 12, 2008 – 6:11 pm
The holidays are all about the food. Am I not correct? This was a big reason why my book club chose “A Trail Of Crumbs” by Kim Sunee as our December pick. The book is a lovely, poetic memoir about the author’s search for self & home using food as her anchor. Each of us [...]
October 24, 2008 – 6:46 pm
According to earlyword.com, a website aimed at keeping librarians on top of what is happening in book world, David Tanis’ “A Platter of Figs” might just be THE cookbook of the season. The author was a former chef at Alice Water’s Berkeley, CA restaurant Chez Pannise. Waters describes his cooking style as “radical simplicity.” If [...]
September 25, 2008 – 3:41 pm
This is the third in my series of covering Barbara Kingsolver’s wonderful book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life”. Weary of Election coverage and Economic woes, I fled to my local farmer’s market to focus on another big E in my life…eating. The stalls were full of pumpkins, squashes, beans, garlic, onions, carrots, [...]
August 18, 2008 – 2:02 pm
It’s August and we are in what Barbara Kingsolver writes as “the berry stained days of summer”. This past spring, when I first reviewed the book, I suggested that readers should experience this wonderful book season by season. Since we are smack dab in the middle of summer, I want to share with you my [...]
My book club is currently reading “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” by Barbara Kingsolver. The nuts and bolts of the book is that Barbara, her husband Steven and their two daughters, Camille and Lily, uproot themselves from Tucson, AZ in order to move permanently to the southern Appalachia farm where the family summers each year. As a [...]
