Posts Tagged ‘Cookbooks’
2013 Cookbook Favorites
May I say that this is the first December that has given me an authentic experience of … too hectic. I knew things were getting bad when my mother took me by the shoulders the other day in the kitchen and said: Please! Sit down and smell the roses, honey. The only roses I’m smelling…
Read MoreArugula with Sugared Cranberries & Pancetta. And let’s talk cookbooks.
As I mentioned recently, I am a cookbookaholic. I love to hear about good cookbooks from anyone who is into them. I sort of assume the same of anyone else who likes to collect, cook from, and gift-give cookbooks. So in honor of the cookbook-buying and giving season ahead—in honor of all of the…
Read MoreA very special announcement…(spoiler: I’m publishing a book!)
As you can imagine, I spend a lot of time with cookbooks. The writing life may be a solitary one, but in the presence of a well-built library, a writer hardly feels alone. When I lived on my own in San Francisco for a year to go to culinary school, the house I rented…
Read MoreFavorite Cookbooks for Gift-Giving
This isn’t so much a book review as it is simply a good list, a list of beautiful, special cookbooks to give to yourself or someone you love. One of the great pleasures I take in making this list is the number of books, those out new this year as well as older favorites, whose…
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