Last week, I attended the August Book Club, hosted by medabistro’s GalleyCat blog. Five writers, all accomplished in their respective fields, read from their books. It was an interesting mix: Jewish Chick Lit, a memoir about the effects of hip-hop culture, a dissection of what Goldman Sachs was really doing heading into the economic meltdown, [...]
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Four is the Magic Number – “Desserts 4 Today”
Posted in Books, tagged Abby Dodge, Abigail Johnson Dodge, Cook, Cookbooks, Desserts, Food, GalleyCat, mediabistro, Nutella, Nutella Fudge Brownies, Recipes on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, A Book About Food – “The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake”
Posted in Books, tagged "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake", About Food, Aimee Bender, Amazon.com, Books, Entertainment, Novels, Reading on June 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, a book about food, and about eating, and about one particular girl’s spectacular ability to eat the food and taste the emotions of the person who prepared it. This is the gist of author Aimee Bender’s new novel, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. In the book, Bender uses magical realism to tell the [...]
Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town
Posted in Books, tagged Books, Food, Ideas, Inspiration, Italy, Photography, Pistoia, Slow Food, Tuscany on February 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
There is a saying in Italian, “Meglio spendere soldi dal macellaio che dal farmacista,” which means that it’s better to spend money at the butcher than the pharmacist. In other words, eat well. The Italian saying is found on front flap of Douglas Gayeton’s fabulous book, Slow: Life in a Tuscan Town, published late last [...]
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