I Like it Simple, Sweet & Savory...
As current students know and others will remember, this time of year means one thing: final exams. With papers due in a few days and a Hebrew grammar final this Thursday I haven’t had much time for cooking, but a girl has to eat, and sometimes quickie dishes can be spectacular. For instance, the...
10 Questions with Dorie Greenspan...
Few authors are as popular in the foodblogging world as Dorie Greenspan so you can imagine my delight when she agreed to let me interview her. A special correspondent for Bon Appétit magazine, the author of nine cookbooks, and the recipient of five James Beard and IACP awards, Dorie is a gifted baker...
The Hot Sauce Incident...
When my Mom came to visit during my senior year of college I knew exactly how we were going to spend our time together. In between classes we would see the city and at night I would cook meals that would blow her socks off, finally convincing her I possessed culinary skill. Up until that point my family...
My Kitchen, It’s Full of Nuts...
There comes a time in every cook’s life when he or she looks around and realizes that their house is full of nuts. This has nothing to do with relatives or one’s proximity to them, rather it’s the almond, walnut and macadamia of which I speak. All those earthy seeds that add so much...
For the Kid Inside & the Adult Outs...
Cappuccino Chocolate Chip Cookies
The other day it occurred to me that many of the foods I love as an adult are unlike the foods that delighted me as a child. Spicy broccoli is a good example. This dish is made by lightly sauteing broccoli florets with diced garlic, sea salt and red pepper flakes, the...
T Minus 20 Hours...
“When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.” - M. F. K. Fisher
Passover ends in approximately 20 hours and let me tell you: am I excited. Not that I’ve been keeping track or anything, but it has been...
Ethiopian Siga Wot...
“One of the delights of life is eating with friends, second to that is talking about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.” - Laurie Colwin
Last night we celebrated the first night of Passover at a relative’s...
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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...)
