Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Peachy for Peach Lovers

The Peach Truck Cookbook: 100 Delicious Recipes for All Things Peach by Stephen K. Rose, Jessica N. Rose

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I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The book is out June 25, just in time to catch the end of peach season, so hop on this one. Stephen K. Rose and Jessica N. Rose have built a business selling Georgia peaches. They started selling out of their old pickup truck, hence the name, in Nashville, but have grown nationwide. In addition to selling at farmers markets, they also sell to Nashville restaurants. The recipes in this cookbook are a […]

Untested Triple-Threat-ish

Indian-ish by Priya Krishna

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Personal current rule: I am not allowed to start working through a new cookbook until I finish with the current one. I’m close, and should be able to start a new cookbook by about mid-June. That hasn’t stopped me from building up a small pile of potential successors, including Indian-ish. This means that I have read through the book, but not yet tried anything from it. This book is really three things at once: an introduction to Indian cooking (both in terms of ingredients and […]

Eat Your Vegetables! Also, Relax!

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan

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In the last few years, I slowly gained and somewhat rapidly lost a lot of weight (about 50 pounds). While extra weigh certainly did some damage to me physically, the psychic trauma of worrying about everything I was putting into (or not putting into) my body was the worst part of the whole thing. Food just…wasn’t fun. It became terror. I’m sure you’ve been there. In this book, the author mentions a survey in which the French associated with chocolate cake words like celebration , […]

Most marshmallows read a book before bed and if you do too, try this book

Most Marshmallows by Rowboat Watkins

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First blush I had of Most Marshmallows by Rowboat Watkins: This is completely and totally anti-establishment. DO NOT BE A MARSHMALLOW! Do not stand in straight lines! Do not be squishy! Be free! Do you own thing! Breath fire! Second blush: This story has been done before. That “Be yourself. Be whatever you want to be. Even (gasp!) breath fire!” Honestly, how many times can we do this story? While some of the things “you can do” are different: as we know marshmallows and fire […]

An interesting appetizer

Take big bites by Linda Ellerbee

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I love reading about food, I love reading about travel, and I REALLY love when books include recipes (Hey there Ruth Reichl; your carbonara recipe from Garlic and Sapphires – I think- is a household favorite and my future cardiologist thanks you). This book may have been written for me. Appropriately enough, I read it over several lunch breaks at work, and this is probably the ideal way to read it. Despite the title, the chapters are probably best read with space in between; Ellerbee […]

Not all of these meals changed the course of history

The Course of History: Ten Meals That Changed the World by Struan Stevenson and Tony Singh

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This book almost makes me regret signing up for Netgally. What a slog. I did get this book from Netgally in exchange for an honest review. Feasting on leg of lamb, Bonnie Prince Charlie doomed the Jacobite Army at Culloden. A uniquely American menu served with French wine lubricated the conversation between rivals Jefferson and Hamilton that led to the founding of the US financial system and the location of the nation’s capital in Washington. After schweinwürst and sauerkraut with Adolf Hitler at his Berghof residence, Austrian […]



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