Red Wine Pasta & Moroccan Phyllo Ci...
Posted by Ari in Food History, Main Dishes, Quick & Easy, Side Dishes on 12 18th, 2006 | 41 Comments
“I’ve met a lot of people while traveling. I’ve even encountered myself.”
I’m leaving for Israel on Wednesday morning so this will likely be my last post until I return in mid January. I’ve added a little countdown script to the sidebar so that my husband, family (and...
Chanukah Beignets!...
“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.”
Chanukah began tonight and to celebrate we made a semi-traditional dish: beignets! Now, I know what you’re thinking. “Ari, what on earth is Jewish about beignets? They’re French!” But wait,...
Cinnamon Sugar Scones...
“I feel the end of finals approaching. Quick, bring me my dessert, coffee and liqueur.”
It is said that ’sanity is madness put to good uses’ and that pretty much sums up my relationship with baking during finals period at school. Sure I have tons of reading to do, papers to write,...
Classic Drinking Chocolate + The Essence...
“There’s nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.”
With all this talk about winter comforts (not to mention the 18 degree weather outside) it seems like the perfect time to write about the winner of the recent recipe poll: Classic Drinking Chocolate! This...
Jamie Oliver’s Early Autumn Minest...
“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”
Though I’ve been on the East Coast for almost ten years now, every so often I find myself missing the warm southern California weather I grew up with. As a child I spent late December splashing through the ocean,...
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride By Daniel James Brown
It's not often that a history book will compel me to set all my novels aside, but "The Indifferent Stars Above" certainly did. Within the first few pages I was spellbound. I had to know how Sarah, a young woman newly married to her childhood sweetheart, would end up on top of the Sierra Nevada mountains in the dead of winter, starving and forced to do unspeakable things in order to survive.
"The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride" tells the story of the Donner Party from the perspective of newlyweds Sarah Graves and Jay Fosdick. In April of 1846 the couple joined Sarah's family as they journeyed west from Illinois to the promised land of California. (Read the rest of this review...)
