There's a certain irony in writing about Michael Moss' Salt Sugar Fat on the very day I come home from the store with a shopping cart full of dairy, but here goes anyway...! In all honesty, this book took me weeks to finish. It's a fascinating topic and Salt Sugar Fat is very well written, but there's a lot …
Whether it's the season or the news or the swell of negativity on Facebook, a couple of you have mentioned that you're looking for easy reads and escapist literature lately. I'm right there with you, guys, and one of my favorite light escapist genres is cozy mystery. What's a cozy? Well, there is always a murder involved …
What's up with the children's book this week? Well... Harriet the Spy (originally published in 1964) was always one of my own favorite books as a kid. My original cheap paperback copy literally fell apart in my hands years ago, but a while back we picked up the exact edition shown above at Goodwill for a whopping …
On the very first "What's Rachel Reading" post a couple of weeks ago, Susan recommended reading The Circle by Dave Eggers -- which will also be hitting theaters at the end of April as a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Emma Watson. (This, I'll be watching, but not until it's out on DVD.) Someone …
If you've been following any of the recipes here on Mashup Mom, you probably already know that easy, simple, and tasty are pretty much the watchwords around here. I've subscribed to the weekly emails from Lisa Leake over at 100 Days of Real Food for years and did enjoy her first cookbook -- but was even …
I've always been an unrepentant reader, reading early, quickly, and indiscriminately: Books, magazines, cereal boxes, road signs, encyclopedia entries, restaurant menus -- anything that could be read, I read it. One of my mom's favorite stories to tell of a much younger Rachel is of our weekly trips to the public library, after which I'd …