Archive for the 'book reviews' Category
Food to Make You Famous
January 11th, 2012by Caroline As anyone who follows me on Twitter or Facebook is aware, I have started 2012 not in the kitchen, but in my garage. Like any family, we store plenty of things that we won’t need ever again but can’t quite bear to part with (my wedding dress; the boys’ knit hats from the [...]
Eating for Beginners: 2nd Chance Book Giveaway
October 6th, 2011By Lisa Like a lot of new parents, Melanie Rehak wanted to know more about the food she was cooking and serving her son. Unlike a lot of new parents, she went to work in the kitchen of applewood, an restaurant committed to local food, community, and fostering creativity among their staff–for a full year. [...]
Hungry Monkey: Book Review
July 1st, 2011By Lisa Recently I had the opportunity to review Matthew Amster-Burton’s, Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father’s Quest to Raise an Adventurous Eater (Mariner Books, 2010) for Literary Mama. The book is a good read, often funny, and worthwhile even if you read just a few isolated chapters. What Amster-Burton does best is inspire without preaching. [...]
The Spirit of Food: 34 Writers on Feasting and Fasting Toward God
May 25th, 2011by Caroline People ask me sometimes what it was like growing up the daughter (and granddaughter, and niece) of Episcopal priests and I always say I don’t know. I never grew up in any other family. I have no other life to compare it to. There is a familiarity to the world of the church, [...]
The Spirit of Food
April 20th, 2011by Caroline I’m on vacation with my family this week before Easter, traveling around New England visiting my niece, various cousins, my parents and brothers. I’ll have some food to write about soon enough, but in the meantime, I want to offer a very short post, a passage from an essay by Nancy Nordenson, “Things [...]
Book Review: Just One Bite
October 13th, 2010by Caroline A couple years ago, we renovated our kitchen and installed a big bookcase between the new kitchen and family room. I’ve got dozens of cookbooks, and although I don’t necessarily refer to them everyday, it’s nice to cook knowing that Deborah, Marcella, Irma, Marion, Nigella, Mark, Alice, Mollie and the rest are up [...]
Giveaway! Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid
August 2nd, 2010by Caroline I love food and cooking, love raising and feeding my kids, love to write. Sometimes, as in this blog, those interests intersect and I get to write about the food I feed my kids. Sometimes, almost even better, I get to read about someone else doing all of that. This is one of [...]
Review: In the Kitchen, by Dona Schwartz
May 27th, 2010by Caroline Lisa lives in a modernist Eichler house, with glass doors opening from its bright, efficient kitchen to a sunny back yard with citrus trees and a generous picnic bench. I live in a renovated San Francisco Edwardian, with a cork-floored kitchen, a maple island and deep red tile fired in a local pottery [...]