The Locavore’s Bookshelf: Organic, Inc.

Samuel Fromartz’ excellent and well-researched book, subtitled, Natural Foods and How They Grew, takes a look at the rise of organic foods from its its infancy as a niche agricultural method practiced by a very few who were often laughed off as cranks and crackpots, to the continually growing, increasingly corporate sector of the food […]

Book Review: The Unprejudiced Palate

Although first published over fifty years ago, Angelo Pellegrini’s The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life is one of those works which rings as true today, as when the author first put pen to paper.
The slender volume, which mostly contains Pellegrini’s injunctions and instructions on how to grow, cook and […]

Book Review: Gastronaut

I know that by now, people are starting to wonder why I keep doing all of these book reviews.
Am I catching up on my reading?

Well, sort of.
Have I given up on cooking?
Not a chance, though cooking has been a challenge of late, and when I have cooked, it has all tended to […]

Book Review: My Life in France

I devoured this book in two days flat, even though I was supposed to be cleaning the house to prepare for a dear friend’s visit.

Every single spare moment of those two days was spent with my nose firmly planted in Julia Child’s My Life In France, a memoir that records her years living in and […]

Book Review: The Food Substitution Bible

Reviewing books is a passion of mine; reviewing cookbooks and books about food are a particular obsession. This is in large part, because I like to read, write and cook, so three of my favorite activities come together in a delicious synergy.

Though, I have to admit, that generally, I like to read cookbooks or […]