Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Love Letter to a Diaspora

Mooncakes and Milk Bread by Kristina Cho

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Kristina Cho’s Mooncakes and Milk Bread is a spectacular cookbook. It has gorgeous photography, clearly explained recipes, and threads that tie her upbringing in Cleveland, Ohio to the greater Chinese diaspora. Cho grew up in her family’s Chinese restaurants. Initially, she wanted to be a chef, like her grandfather, but instead studied architecture, eventually creating a food blog as a release for her love of cooking. Mooncakes and Milk Bread works as an introduction to Chinese baking (and steaming and pan frying). She clearly explains […]

Sometimes you read a book and just want to go hang out with the author for a while.

Recipe for a kinder life by Annie Smithers

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This was a fairly quick read for me and left me wanting to read more by Annie Smithers, visit her restaurant, do a cooking class with her… and stay a little while on her farm. Part memoir, part recipe book, part instructional on building a hectic but satisfying life, Recipe for a kinder life has become one of my favourite books this year. As the author describes her life as a chef, her move to the country and subsequent purchasing of property and running of […]

Time for picture book reviewing again!

Tomatoes for Neela by Padma Lakshmi

Tilda Tries Again by Tom Percival

Pout-Pout Fish: Passover Treasure by Deborah Diesen

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I am hungry. (Of course, that is like saying, it is Tuesday on Tuesday.) And a fun snack is cherry or grape tomatoes for me. Therefore, when I saw the word tomatoes in the title of this picture book, I was intrigued. In Tomatoes for Neela, Neela and her mother cook dishes and show how tomatoes play a role in foods of a culture. This task also shows how culture brings families together, even if one member (say, a beloved grandmother) is far away living […]

I want to know more about the skunk woman

Astro Mouse and Light Bulb vs the Troublesome 4 by Fermin Solis

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With a character called Caca what do you think Astro Mouse and Light Bulb vs the Troublesome 4 is about? Well, Fermin Solis created a book about a Mouse called Astro Mouse, a space explorer who is as bright as a burned-out light bulb. There is a Light Bulb (that is robotic like and floats along) who is smart and who has a crush on a lamp. There is a Lamp that likes having adventures with Light Bulb. There is a funky Space Chicken, talking […]

Why, yes: I do like fall best. It is just the superior season. I won’t be entertaining arguments.

Sophie's Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller

Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story by Pat Zietlow Miller

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Some kids are quirky; Different. In Sophie’s Squash by Pat Zietlow Miller, Illustrated by Anne Wilsdorf, Sophie is one of those kids. Instead of letting the squash her parents bought at the farmer’s market be relegated to their dinner table, she decides instead that the squash is just the right size to love; to “bounce on her knee;” to give a face, name Bernice & become her constant companion. After a while, & many library trips, garden somersaults, baby bottles, hugs and kisses later, nature […]

Great British Bake Off warm and fuzzies, now in fiction

Battle Royale by Lucy Parker

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This book has delicious food, a believable enemies to lovers plot and emotional maturity. What else do you need? Plot: Sylvie is a charming 30-something who loves creating imaginative desserts. When she competes on Operation Cake, she butts heads with legacy dessert legend Dominic, who is the queen’s favourite baker and a stickler for tradition and elegant design. She’s sent home after her unicorn cake blows up in his face. The story picks up four years later when her bakery, Sugar Fair, located conveniently across […]



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