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
Category: Food Memoir Bookshelf
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
Orchard House Book Review
It may seem odd to compare a book to candy, but that notion seemed right in this case. Some candies disappear quickly and before you know it, you’ve unwrapped, chewed and swallowed. Others require time to savor them like peeling the paper off a lollipop where each lick gets you closer to the stick in… Continue reading Orchard House Book Review
It Was Me All Along Book Review
Sometimes weight loss books are so quick to get to the skinny victory. They check off a former self with its struggles as a completed task. There is distancing from being fat as if it might be an infectious disease. It makes me sad to see this happen, even if I am someone on the… Continue reading It Was Me All Along Book Review
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