Yes, it’s another cookbook this week! This time I’m reading Impatient Foodie: 100 Delicious Recipes for a Hectic, Time-Starved World, the premise here being that thoughtful, sustainable, and healthy food can be easy, fast, and fun. Well, that all sounds right up my alley, so let’s see what we have here… The basic backstory Impatient Foodie grew out …
I don’t often say this about a book any more (because I’m trying to pare down and do most of my reading from the library…), but: I think I am going to have to buy Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Much more than your typical cookbook, this is really a cooking class in a book — taught …
Lately I’ve been balancing out some of my lighter summer cozy mystery and urban fantasy reading with books tackling weightier issues — among them, of course, being the topic of real food (because it meets real life!). This week’s real-food-read is Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble. Ethical food choices Kimble’s …
If you’ve been reading along with my… well, reading along, you’ll have noticed I have something of a soft spot for food memoirs. So, I duly picked up David Leite’s Notes on a Banana from my library’s new book shelf a couple of weeks ago. Leite is a food writer, author of The New Portuguese Table, and the …
It’s too darn hot for heavy reading this week, so let’s dip our toe back into some lighter cozy mystery! Ironically, I just finished reading Sherry Harris’ A Good Day To Buy. Why ironic? Well… I just participated in a multi-family garage sale recently, and let’s just say mine was less well organized (and definitely less lucrative…) …
Jodi Picoult’s credentials as a best-selling novelist are well deserved, so I’m not sure how I missed seeing small great things when it first came out last fall. (Probably because I was knee-deep in Black Friday madness when we were all deal blogging — But that’s the beauty of the library: There’s always something new to read in any …
