Coconut Biscotti & Banana Almond Mu...
Thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets for the ‘Baking and Books book’ raffle - it means so much that you took the time to support me in my fundraising efforts. Big hug! For those of you with sites I want to mention your names here in this entry, thereby giving you the public kudos...
Rick Bayless’ Arroz Con Leche...
If you ask me, food is a miraculous thing. From the smallest seeds spring trees heavy with red apples, which we harvest and enjoy in all their glory. We chomp through their crispy exteriors, letting their sweet, clear juices run down our chins. Or we mix them with sugar & spice (and other things...
Pistachio Cake with Chilled Rose Syrup...
When I began ‘Baking and Books’ last September I had no idea that this site would influence my palate, but the truth is that writing about food has introduced me to many novel aspects of the food world. Blogging about what I eat has inspired me to seek out new dishes and flavor combinations...
Three Book Reviews, A Recipe and an Inte...
Although I read a lot of books, as far as I can remember I’ve only read two memoirs: “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert and “The Late Bloomer’s Revolution” by Amy Cohen. The first caught my eye because the title drew an implicit connection between food, spirituality...
Spaghetti Squash with Pumpkin Seed Pesto...
One of the challenges of having more than one job is that you often have to work on the weekends, and if we don’t count the Cleanse as a vacation - which it wasn’t since I was technically at work while my husband was at home - during the entire month of June I had only two days off. So when...
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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...)
