Many thanks to TLC Book Tours for inviting me to tour Paula Butturini’s new memoir: Keeping the Feast (read my review). I love books that center around food in foreign countries, and Butturini’s story of illness and recovery in Italy reminds us how the ritual of food is a symbol of survival.
About Paula Butturini:
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TLC Book Tour: Paula Butturini, author of Keeping The Feast, Guest Post
Weekend Cooking: Soup
Welcome to Weekend Cooking – a weekly meme sponsored at Beth Fish Reads which “is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to grab the button [...]
Virtual Cookie Swap
Kathy of Bermudaonion and Julie of Booking Mama have made us drool over the last few days by posting their cookie recipes. Now it’s our turn! Participants have until December 4th to link up their recipes (traditional cookies at Kathy’s blog and chocolate cookie or Candy recipes at Julie’s blog) to be eligible for prizes.
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Weekend Cooking: What’s on the TBR Pile
Welcome to another installation of Weekend Cooking hosted by Beth Fish Reads.
I am hopelessly addicted to collecting cookbooks and food related books…and then not reading them. I don’t know why they sit unread on my shelves, but they do. I do know why I buy them…I love food, I love thinking of food, I love [...]
Weekend Cooking: Pre-Thanksgiving Motivation
Beth at Beth Fish Reads hosts this fun cooking meme every weekend – a time to blog about anything vaguely foodie in nature.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but about two weeks before Thanksgiving I start craving stuffing, roasted poultry, squash, yams and pie. I think it is just thinking of Thanksgiving that [...]
Weekend Cooking: Apples and Chicken
Have you seen this new weekly meme being hosted over at Beth Fish Reads? Beth writes:
Weekend Cooking is open to anyone who has any kind of food-related post to share: Book (novel, nonfiction) reviews, cookbook reviews, movie reviews, recipes, random thoughts, gadgets, fabulous quotations, photographs. If your post is even vaguely foodie, feel free to [...]
Life in the Slow Lane – Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook
Americans are known throughout the modern world for their love of new technology in the mechanical and electronic realms. Any piece of equipment or tool that can do the job better and faster is immediately embraced and touted. So who could have predicted the success of a kitchen appliance that does the job more slowly? [...]
A Weekend of Cooking – Gardeners’ Community Cookbook
As part of the Soup’s On Challenge, I immersed myself in Smith & Hawken: Gardeners’ Community Cookbook this weekend and made several recipes over a two day period. This cookbook came about through a community effort of more than 350 gardeners from around the United States, including some well known professional chefs like Barbara [...]
The Piker Press – Article Published
I’ve been in a writing rut for months now. Call it exhaustion or burn out or just plain laziness … but, I haven’t been writing. Until last week, when I decided to write a food article called Bananas Anyone? for The Piker Press. It will be on the site all this week. Hope you’ll go [...]
Bread Making
I used to think I would bake fresh bread from scratch; kneading the elastic dough with flour covered hands; letting it …
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