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  • Recipe Room: A Novel
    Room: A Novel
    I recently read a review of the book Room by Emma Donoghue and was intrigued. I picked it up several weeks later and was so glad that I did. I read this book in two days. I could not put it down once I got into the story. Room is the[...]
  • Recipe A Novel Idea Book Review
    A Novel Idea Book Review
    Ok I know this happens to me often. I need to write something I just know that people come by here and I have to have something up daily! Ok yes I totally know I'm blowing my own horn and use I'm crazy go nuts if I don't post daily. But as[...]
  • Recipe A novel way to poach eggs
    A novel way to poach eggs
    Photo courtesy of Chef's Catalog.com I know the traditional method of making poached eggs . But if you're risk adverse, consider getting your hands on these Egg Poach Pods at Chef's Catalog . Alton Brown has a saying that the only[...]
  • Recipe About Noble House, the Novel
    About Noble House, the Novel
    This Week’s Film: Noble House Cuisine: Hong Kong Noble House is based on the 1981 novel of the same name by James Clavell. At over 1,000 pages, the story takes place in Hong Kong over the course of a single week in November 1963. It[...]
  • Recipe Winner of 'Dinner with Joy' Novel Giveaway
    Winner of 'Dinner with Joy' Novel Giveaway
    And the winner is... The thirteenth comment was Small Town Oven: Mmm my dad is most definitely loving coffee cakes right now so this is getting packed for the next time I head home! I think I'd name my show after my[...]
  • Recipe Stardust: the Novel, a Gripping yet Beautiful McCarthy Hollywood Mystery
    Stardust: the Novel, a Gripping yet Beautiful McCarthy Hollywood Mystery
    Stardust , the latest novel by Joseph Kanon, reads like a great black and white classic movie. From the first sentence, "As it happened, Sol Lasner was also on the train," the reader is propelled in the paranoia and intrigue of Hollywood in[...]
  • Recipe The Recipe Club Novel Inspired Me to Cook and Reconnect
    The Recipe Club Novel Inspired Me to Cook and Reconnect
    During my summers in France, I used to spend evenings talking to my grandmother, asking her to describe over and over the world of her youth, a world without all the conveniences I took for granted. I felt like I was living the future with my[...]
  • Recipe An Interview with Ben Kane and a giveaway of The Silver Eagle Novel
    An Interview with Ben Kane and a giveaway of The Silver Eagle Novel
    Ever since I devoured the Forgotten Legion, Ben Kane's thrilling novel set in the early decline of the Roman empire, I have been anxiously waiting for the sequel to be released. Two weeks ago, my galley of The Silver Eagle arrived in the mail[...]
  • Recipe Marigold Corn Pone with Marigold Honey ...inspired by Garden Spells
    Marigold Corn Pone with Marigold Honey ...inspired by Garden Spells (1 vote)
    A few weeks back, I read a fun book.  It was the story of family and their gift of magic...unique to each person, yet intertwined through the bonds of blood and family lore.  Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen weaves the[...]
  • Recipe {a vintage read}
    {a vintage read}
    My friend Laura Jane in Dallas recently told me about a book she knew I would like. When she described Isabel Wolff's A Vintage Affair: A Novel , I went right over to the library on Cooper Road and checked it out. Locals, I'm returning this today;[...]