I don’t believe I’ve ever read Gourmet magazine, but I was still sad to learn this week that the magazine was closing up shop because I was just getting acquainted with its editor, Ruth Reichl, through listening to the audio version of Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table, the second of her memoirs [...]
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
Comfort Me with Apples (audio)
Posted in Audiobooks, Food, Memoir on October 8, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Home Cooking
Posted in Contemporary, Food, Nonfiction on September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As you can see from my reviews of Passion and Affect and Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object, Laurie Colwin is one of my favorite contemporary authors. For me, her writing is exactly right, like having precisely what you want to eat when you’re hungry: tart lemonade on a hot day, or a soup with [...]
Hotel Bemelmans
Posted in Food, Memoir, Nonfiction on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You probably know Ludwig Bemelmans best from his wonderful Madeline books for children: “In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines/ Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines.” I certainly did; I could go on to quote nearly the entire book by heart.
But as it turns out, Bemelmans was more of [...]
In Defense of Food (Audio)
Posted in Audiobooks, Food, Nonfiction on December 16, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food is often mentioned as a good, practical follow-up to his excellent The Omnivore’s Dilemma, which Jenny and I have both reviewed. In The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Pollan looks at the process of food production, opening readers’ eyes to the problems with the industrial food chain that prevails in 21st-century America. It’s [...]
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Audio)
Posted in Audiobooks, Food, Nonfiction on November 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’ve mentioned here before that I try to eat local food whenever possible, but it’s not always possible. Vegetables, fruit, and meat are available from reasonably local sources, but milk and grains are a challenge. So I was interested in reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life and learning how Barbara Kingsolver and her family [...]
Alone in the Kitchen With An Eggplant
Posted in Food, Memoir, Nonfiction on November 19, 2008 | 7 Comments »
What do you eat when you’re alone? Are you the kind of person who fixes yourself elaborate, delicious meals, caring for yourself as you would for anyone else? Do you eat odd foods, satisfy personal cravings that you don’t want anyone to know about? Perhaps you live alone, and eating alone is routine; you have [...]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma (Audio)
Posted in Audiobooks, Food, Nonfiction on September 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jenny wrote an excellent review of The Omnivore’s Dilemma back in June. Go read it now for some background on this fascinating, scary—and potentially life-changing—book. Now that I’ve finished listening to the audio book, I can say that heartily concur with her.
Since Jenny has covered the highlights of the book so well already, I hope you all [...]
The Omnivore’s Dilemma
Posted in Food, Nonfiction on June 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
If you’re a panda bear, dinner is easy. It’s bamboo for you; you don’t have a choice and you don’t want one. But when you can eat anything, what should you eat? In other words, what in the world is for dinner? That’s the omnivore’s dilemma, Michael Pollan tells us.
And it’s worse in America in [...]
