Tag: cooking

• Book Review: Love & Saffron by Kim Fay

  If books were people, and if Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin married 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff, and if those two book-people had a baby, it would be Love & Saffron by Kim Fay, and that baby’s godmother would be Ruth Reichl.  I devoured this book in one day. Granted I was in […]

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  April 19, 2022

  Essay

  cooking, epistolary, food, historical fiction, Kim Fay, Los Angeles, Mexico, Spanish, Washington, writing

• Book Review – Nadiya’s British Food Adventure

  I love watching British cooking shows and reading cookbooks from the UK. This particular book, Nadiya’s British Food Adventure, combines my love of all things British with a desire to learn more about other cultures. Nadiya Hussain is a breath of fresh air. No pretentiousness, no putting on airs. Just family style cooking elevated with […]

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  May 6, 2021

  Essay

  British, cooking, GBBO

• The “Pan”-Demic Experiments

  “Sometimes you feel like a nut / Sometimes you don’t / Almond Joy’s got nuts / Mounds don’t” was the jingle used during the 1970s to advertise two of my favorite candy bars.  And, likewise, sometimes, I feel like doing culinary research for several hours, shopping at multiple grocery stores and markets, gathering stand mixer, […]

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  June 14, 2020

  Essay, food

  Almond Joy, baking, brownies, cake mix, chocolate, cinnamon, coffee cake, Community Coffee, cooking, COVID 19, from scratch, Mounds, pandemic, prepared mix, Southern Bites