Most people love to eat and have cherished memories of meals they’ve shared over the years with friends and family. If you’ve ever read Peter Mayle, Frances Mayes or Carol Drinkwater, you know exactly what I mean. Their memoirs, while not technically in the culinary genre, all describe the planning and execution of those meals in a very personal way.
Read This Book, Then Run To the Food Store
This post would have been finished much earlier if I hadn’t been busy copying the scrumptious recipes that Molly Wizenberg, author of A Homemade Life: Stories […]
Cedric Jennings 10 years later
If you think that you’ve had to overcome a lot in your life, read one of my favorite books from the 90s, A Hope in […]
Cooking it Up at Le Cordon Bleu
Michael Ruhlman, the gourmand and talented nonfiction writer (Making of a Chef and House: A Memoir among others) wrote a quote on the back cover of […]
New Orleans and Life After Katrina
People all around the world were affected by Hurricane Katrina in August of 2005 as it unfolded in all its ugliness and ferocity on television, […]
Warning — Cannibals, Snakes, Certain Death Ahead
Most travel books don’t contain flesh eating cannibals, disease causing insects or poison arrow attacks. But, David Grann’s The Lost City of Z: A Tale […]
A Journey Not to Be Forgotten
When you discover that Susan Gilman, author of the exotically titled Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, is already an accomplished and published writer you may have trouble […]
Coming To America-The Hmong People Overcoming the Odds
No matter what some citizens of the world may think of the United States, it is still the last great hope for many people. There […]
Reading Culinary Memoirs — A Guilty Pleasure
How sinfully delicious it can be to read culinary memoirs. The stories are entertaining, often quite humorous and the descriptions of the food may be mouth watering but, luckily, not caloric. […]
