Why yes, we are back to cookbooks in this week’s edition of What’s Rachel Reading. 🙂 Up today: Eat Delicious: 125 Recipes for Your Daily Dose of Awesome by Dennis the Prescott. This was another impulse find from the library’s new book shelf, because who doesn’t want to eat delicious? The photos The book serendipitously begins with …
Who else instantly heard the lulling rhythm of “in the great green room, there was a telephone, and a red balloon…” in your head as soon as you saw this book cover? Both of my boys went through a lengthy Goodnight Moon phase, but I never really knew anything about its author. After reading In the Great …
Yes, it’s another cookbook this week! This time I’m reading Impatient Foodie: 100 Delicious Recipes for a Hectic, Time-Starved World, the premise here being that thoughtful, sustainable, and healthy food can be easy, fast, and fun. Well, that all sounds right up my alley, so let’s see what we have here… The basic backstory Impatient Foodie grew out …
I don’t often say this about a book any more (because I’m trying to pare down and do most of my reading from the library…), but: I think I am going to have to buy Samin Nosrat’s Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Much more than your typical cookbook, this is really a cooking class in a book — taught …
Lately I’ve been balancing out some of my lighter summer cozy mystery and urban fantasy reading with books tackling weightier issues — among them, of course, being the topic of real food (because it meets real life!). This week’s real-food-read is Unprocessed: My City-Dwelling Year of Reclaiming Real Food by Megan Kimble. Ethical food choices Kimble’s …
If you’ve been reading along with my… well, reading along, you’ll have noticed I have something of a soft spot for food memoirs. So, I duly picked up David Leite’s Notes on a Banana from my library’s new book shelf a couple of weeks ago. Leite is a food writer, author of The New Portuguese Table, and the …