The Book Stack #2
What have we this time around? You look at the title, Bread Wine Chocolate, and you’re already engaged. I mean, what’s not to like? Clearly three items selected from the book to grab our attention,… The Book Stack #2
Cooking the Books #2
A round-up of some of my recent food reading. Pollan, Michael (April 28, 2009) In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Setting aside that in some ways this is another book with more of the… Cooking the Books #2
Mixed Roots in Argentina
Original accompanying post here.
Proofed and Ready to Print
This book, Don’t Fry for Me Argentina, is a collection of stories, conversations, and more about life after having moved to Argentina – some of it adapted from here on the blog, some from other… Proofed and Ready to Print
Second Time Around
Just shy of two years since the original edition’s publication, the second edition of my bilingual Spanish and English food and wine dictionary was officially published today and is available: Saltshaker Spanish-English-Spanish Food & Wine… Second Time Around
With Liver and Giblets for All
“The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.” – back cover blurb… With Liver and Giblets for All
New and Improved
The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking – it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available. It is, as best I’ve been able to determine, the only dictionary of… New and Improved
Thou Shalt Read
Baltimore – I just finished the book In the Devil’s Garden: A Sinful History of Forbidden Food by Steward Lee Allen (Ballantine Books, 2002). I love stuff like this. History, speculation, romance, and a bit… Thou Shalt Read