Rustic Spinach Feta Bread...
A little over one year ago I purchased my first bread baking book ever: The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, by Peter Reinhart. Up to that point challah was the only yeasted bread I’d ever made, and as I flipped through Reinhart’s collection of gorgeous recipes I remember feeling a mixture...
Pulla & An Apple Charlotte...
Posted by Ari in Breads Made With Yeast, Desserts, Food History, My Recipes on 01 10th, 2008 | 39 Comments
One of the things I love most about cooking & baking is how both have the potential to broaden your culinary horizons. Cardamom is an excellent example of this capacity. While I’ve been an avid baker for a while now, it was only during these past few weeks that I began to use cardamom in...
Vetekrans (and Happy New Year!)...
I’ve known for some time now that I’m a food lover. I take almost indecent delight in cooking, baking and experimenting in my kitchen, and few things make me happier than sharing the cakes, cookies or breads I make with friends. Yet the true measure of my ‘foodieness’ was revealed...
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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...)
