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  • Recipe Writers' Houses
    Writers' Houses
    The kitchen in the Thomas Wolfe Memorial , in Asheville, NC, where I visited last year and was able to take photographs. Preserved as the boarding house where Wolfe lived with his mother, it also inspired his novel, You Can't Go Home[...]
  • Recipe Food Writers in Buenos Aires
    Food Writers in Buenos Aires
    The Buenos Aires food scene is not only growing in options of delicious food, but in food lovers as well. New blogs about BA are popping up all the time, and it is no surprise that food is a favorite topic for many. Here are the blogs I most[...]
  • Recipe Reality Check for Food Writers
    Reality Check for Food Writers
    Spend enough time doing something and it will change the way you think, mess with your assumptions, and skew your expectations. When I studied fiction writing everyone who walked into the cafe was a potential character. Their clothes, their[...]
  • Recipe Writers Come in all Shapes and Sizes
    Writers Come in all Shapes and Sizes
    When I stepped into the room, I almost walked right back out. Half the chairs around the table were filled with men and women in their late 80s. I thought that there was little chance that I would find my new writing group here, amongst this[...]
  • Recipe Butter Measurement Translation Chart to Defeat NEFARIOUS recipe writers
    Butter Measurement Translation Chart to Defeat NEFARIOUS recipe writers
    Cooking is one thing,  with butter I generally measure by the globs, or alot of,  Or the famous: yea, that's about right... and other times,  It really needs more butter... and you cook with it....... but baking and candy[...]
  • Recipe From 'A Taste of Murder'~Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Writers: Neil Hamel's Jell-O Shots
    From 'A Taste of Murder'~Diabolically Delicious Recipes from Contemporary Writers: Neil Hamel's Jell-O Shots
    Judith Van Gieson's mystery series, featuring Albuquerque PI Neil Hamel, includes Ditch Rider, Parrot Blues, and The Other Side of Death. " One of the best ways not to feel like a lawyer on those days when I don't want to feel like a[...]
  • Recipe Bulgur it!
    Bulgur it!
    As is generally the way in Turkey, Süleyman works a six-day week, so, on his day off, I like to try and cook something special for our evening meal. And that was certainly the intention this week. The menu I had planned included a dish of sautéed[...]
  • Recipe A big tart
    A big tart
    The other day I got a marriage proposal. Not from the man currently awaiting my arrival in Istanbul. But from the lovely Lene, my friend whose spare room I’m currently occupying. We’d spent a very profitable but tiring morning[...]
  • Recipe Soft brownies
    Soft brownies
    Since my recent failure with brownies I just couldn't wait to give them a second go. This time I made really soft brownies with Dulce de Leche following David Lebovitz recipe . Yes, second time. Some things I only learn from my own[...]
  • Recipe A taste of Spain
    A taste of Spain
    As I talked about in my last post, the aim with my cooking at the moment is to use up all my dry goods, cupboard essentials, and odds and sods. It seems to me that the best way to do that is to have meals that involves several small dishes,[...]