The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook by Deb Perelman contains some excellent recipes. No shortcuts on ingredients but an emphasis on quality. Two recipes we’ve tried are Almond Date Breakfast Bars and Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Galette. The latter includes a great recipe for the crust.
Tagged cookbook, perelmanThe Money Kill by Katia Leif. A good mystery with some expected and very unexpected turns. Starts out in Brooklyn in neighborhoods we’ve visited. An enjoyable read.
Tagged Leif, money killJam It, Pickle It, Cure It: And Other Cooking Projects by Karen Solomon.  Really useful book for preserving foods.
Tagged cure, jam, pickle, preservingIn the Beginning…was the Command Line A short, interesting book that is a related series of essays about the relationship between Unix or Linux with a way to understand a computer. This is overlaid with a discussion of the superiority of Unix/Linux to the major windowed operating systems, OsX and Windows.
Tagged book review, stephensonThe Passion The Passion explores passion at varying levels and types. Romantic passion convoluted with physical, sexual passion; passion for gambling, danger, conquest, or possession; and the passion of devotion. The ways passion inspires, consumes, destroys, and creates.
Tagged jeanette winterson, passion, refiew, the passionThe Rebels (Vintage International) I’m not sure how we discovered Sándor Márai, but after reading his work it seems I should have known about him. His novels are what we expect from literature. A deep interpretation of the human condition expressed in a thoughtful, elegant manner with enough complexity make it extraordinary.
Tagged marai, review, the rebelsLighthousekeeping Jeanette Winterson again shows her prowess as a writer weaving humor, love, passion, tragedy, and storytelling in Lighthousekeeping. Duality is, to me, the prominent theme. The split we have in our personalities, Jekyll and Hyde, romance and science.
Tagged book, jeanette winterson, reviewMan in the Dark: A Novel I love reading Paul Auster. Following his stories as they go in and out of fantasy and reality. In “The Man in the Dark”, the man creates a story in which he is bewildered, loved, and final destroyed as he tries to reconcile two realities, and his own fate. […]
Tagged auster, book reviewStalking Death Stalking Death was the first of Kate Flora’s books that I read, and it has made me want to read more of her mystery novels. This is a “Thea Kozak Mystery”, and like her other works like the others, traces the thoughts and actions of a protagonist who appears in several of Flora’s […]
Tagged book, kate flora, reviewSex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body Ackerman takes you through a day starting with a detailed description of waking in the morning and finishing with just as detailed a description of going to sleep in the evening. Throughout she mixes observations, quips, and the reports of scientific studies […]
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