I’ve written before about a very special place in the Pacific Northwest where I spent my junior high and high school years: it’s called Wenatchee (Two Rivers Run Through It). It’s a place of apple and pear orchards, chinook and sockeye salmon and rolling Columbia River Valley vineyards. It’s also a place of sunshine, to the disbelief of many: it has often been boasted that Wenatchee gets “300 days of sunshine” annually. The north central Washington city is on the arid (eastern) side of the ... View Post
#SundayShelfie: The Forest Feast
It’s been a while since I’ve shared a #SundayShelfie - partly because left unchecked, I could easily allow cookbooks to overrun my life. I’ve worked to edit my cookbooks down to a smaller collection that I truly love and enjoy flipping through several times a year. And by “smaller collection,” I mean they take up just one small cabinet next to my pantry rather than the whole pantry! That doesn’t mean I don’t wildly covet new releases, but I do work to occasionally borrow or digitally ... View Post
Books to Devour: Smart Chefs Stay Slim {Foodie Book Review}
Title: Smart Chefs Stay Slim: Lessons in Eating and Living from America's Best Chefs Author/Release: Allison Adato, foreword by Art Smith (2012) Overview: Healthy-eating and living tips for navigating the best food on the planet as well as home recipes from top chefs such as Rick Bayless and Thomas Keller. Bite-Sized (snippets and sections I loved): - Eat what you love - how to be an effective picky eater surrounded by what you love - Eat the way your family did - why your forebearers ... View Post
Books To Devour: My Father’s Daughter {Cookbook Review}
Title: My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness Author/Release: Gwyneth Paltrow, foreword by Mario Batali (April 2011) Overview: Equal parts cookbook, memoir of a food-centric upbringing and forthright tips on a healthy outlook and life philosophy. Chock full of excellent and simple ways to cook healthy meals with simple prep. Bite-Sized (snippets and sections I loved): - Why I don't eat red meat - a calm but direct and informative ... View Post
Asian Cooking Resources
Ok first - the obvious. I'm not Asian, and I'm not a chef. So if you're looking for some hoity-toity post or highly-developed fusion style, this is not your blog. However, I've loved Asian food since I was a kid. When I was very small, we lived in Suriname (known as Dutch Guyana), a small country in the northern part of South America that has heavy British influence and a culture of strong Asian and African descent. I first remember eating at Sarinah Restaurant on Verlengde Gemenelandsweg ... View Post
More Books To Devour
I posted last month on some of my favorite foodie reads: Books to Devour. If you didn't read it, I'd love for you to skim it and add your favorite food-centric reads. I also set up a special shelf on Goodreads for these tantalizing tomes. Today, I'm adding to it all the books on my foodie "to read" list. Although I just read and couldn't get enough of The Hunger Games trilogy, I suppose they don't technically count. As the winter months approach, here are a few of the books I'll be ... View Post
