Why yes, we are back to cookbooks in this week’s edition of What’s Rachel Reading. 🙂 Up today: Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of Awesome by Dennis the Prescott. This was another impulse find from the library’s new book shelf, because who doesn’t want to eat delicious? The photos The book serendipitously begins with …
Who else instantly heard the lulling rhythm of “in the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon…” in your head as soon as you saw this book cover? Both of my boys went through a lengthy Goodnight Moon phase, but I never really knew anything about its author. After reading In the Great …
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 …
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 …
It’s a week of serendipity over here as we dive into Mads Refslund’s fascinating cookbook: Scraps, Wilt & Weeds. After I told you about Waste Free Kitchen Handbook last week, I randomly ran across this perfect companion volume on my library’s new book shelf. Not only that: Refslund references Waste Free Kitchen Handbook and its author more than once when talking about …