Sunday Salon – April 19, 2009

April 19, 2009 8:45 AM Today promises to be a gorgeous and hot day in Northern California. Already the sun is shining warm through the pines and I have flung open the windows to let in the delicious smell of Spring. This weekend was Dewey’s 24 Hour Read-A-Thon, and from what I could see it…

The School of Essential Ingredients – Book Review

The more she cooked, the more she began to view spices as carriers of the emotions and memories of the places they were originally from and all those they had traveled through over the years. She discovered that people seemed to react to spices much as they did to other people, relaxing instinctively into some,…