2017 Summer Required Reading List

I’m not sure how long summer days summon a different strain on what I want to read but without looking for it, I begin craving memoir and fiction. Throughout the rest of the year, my regimen largely consists of cookbooks and poetry (stay tuned early autumn for a book of food and poetry in a… Continue reading 2017 Summer Required Reading List

Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

One kind of peer pressure I particularly esteem is that of perusing what other kindred spirits online happen to be reading. I had spied this book at an airport bookstore and been easily taken in by its robin’s egg blue hue and the wooden spoon dipped into melted chocolate that drips into a pool below.… Continue reading Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought Me Home by Jessica Fechtor

Three Many Cooks

When I first stumbled upon the food blog, Three Many Cooks, the idea of a mom and her two daughters collaborating on a food blog together seemed like a winsome idea. Through the medium of food and narrative, they showcase individual cooking styles and personality. Several years ago, I had the occasion to meet and… Continue reading Three Many Cooks

The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

For my birthday this year Nathan spoiled me royally: Not with roses-  not with sparkly trinkets, but with books. A stack’s worth. I salivated over the anticipated titles my eyes skimmed- this was my kind of celebration. The hardest question was which to read first. And so I reached, a few years later for “The… Continue reading The Reach of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman

Many years ago, I found myself guilty of a particular kind of deceit: that of giving a gift and then taking it back. At the time, one of my roommates in our overcrowded apartment bordering Ocean Beach had just entered the culinary program of one of our local San Francisco colleges. Her aspirations of being… Continue reading The Soul of a Chef by Michael Ruhlman