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Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

Catherine — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:16:41 +0000

I certainly can’t speak for all of you, but I’m still adrift this week trying to deal with feelings of disbelief and dread. I have a tremendous need for comfort in my reading and thankfully, I found it from one woman who on the surface may have appeared shy and self-effacing, but who has […]

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Heat by Bill Buford

Catherine — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:24:15 +0000

I’m not sure how seriously I can take a man who is foolish enough to invite a world class chef into his home for dinner, but I decided to give Bill Buford a chance. His invitation to Mario Batali leads him to ask if he can work as an intern in the kitchen of Mario’s […]

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Top 10 Books That Made Me Say Yum!

Catherine — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 07:30:11 +0000

As fall settles in, my need for all things sugar-y, creamy, warm, salty, and comforting goes through the roof, keeping me focused on food—even in my reading. So, it’s perfect timing to join The Broke and the Bookish for their Top Ten this week: Books with yummy food in them. Even better is that while […]

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The Hundred-Foot Journey

Catherine — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 08:59:14 +0000

I am almost speechless at how much I enjoyed this book. The Hundred-Foot Journey is a beautiful, thoughtfully written story about one man’s trek from unwelcome immigrant to renowned chef in Paris. Hassam Haji starts life living above his grandfather’s restaurant in Mumbai. When they family leaves india and settles in France it becomes Hassam’s dream […]

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From Scratch: Inside the Food Network

Catherine — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 07:07:19 +0000

A bit of backstory: in the early 2000s when my husband was traveling a great deal for work, we would talk at the end of the day. Several trips in a row, when we spoke, he said he had either grabbed something to eat on the way to the hotel or had room service (which […]

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The Gluten-Free Table

Catherine — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:21:13 +0000

Imagine that your father is a well-loved chef known throughout the world but you can’t eat his food. This was the dilemma faced by Jilly and Jessie Lagasse when both realized, after years of illness without diagnosis, that they were gluten-intolerant and, in Jilly’s case, had celiac disease. This began a process of learning and re-invention, […]

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