Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

MSG is death! and other thoughts about Nigerian food

Food Culture and Cuisine in Nigeria by Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Kingdom of Netherlands

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Usually I try to start off the year with something non-fiction; the book I started wit hthat in mind is taking a bit longer for reasons I’ll get into when I review it. SO instead, I present a random library grab that is actually pretty interesting: Food Culture and Cuisine in Nigeria (by the Nigerian Embassy in the Netherlands). How that got to random SE US public library I have no idea, but that’s part of the fun of a library; they have stuff you […]

A cookbook wherein the cultural concerns over wording miss the measurement question

Chetna's Indian Feasts by Chetna Makan

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If I had access to fresh curry leaves (and I don’t live within 100 miles of anywhere that’s likely to have them), I might be tempted to try most everything in Chetna’s Indian Feasts. Even though she didn’t win her season of Great British Bake Off, the author seems to have done pretty well in setting herself up in the food world. I know she’s done several cookbooks before this one; I might be tracking down one or two of those. Indian Feasts is as […]

Beautiful book whether you’re a baking newbie or a pro

What’s For Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People by Claire Saffitz

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Cbr15bingo Guide, Bingo BLACKOUT Last year I reviewed Claire Saffitz’s first cookbook Dessert Person, giving it two thumbs up. Her second collection, What’s For Dessert, is another great collection of recipes organized in a way that is super helpful to the baker, whether novice or pro. As I pointed out in that earlier review, I am not exactly handy in the kitchen but I do like baking. The biggest obstacle I run in to is that half of my household is gluten/casein/soy free, which can […]

Bean Counting Lesson Book with Monkey Bread and Some Other Stuff

Hungry as Hell by Bad Manners LLC

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I’m still not quite sure about how I feel about the Bad Manners brand series of vegan cookbooks. On the one hand, the first one had a lot of good recipes in it, but the brand had some major issues with racial insensitivity and it took several years for that to get addressed publicly. Then, under the rebrand, a lot of random cussing does not equate bad manners, so that didn’t quite fit, and the tone was different, like the cursing was different and just […]

Chocolate used to be considered a health food. Where did we go wrong?

Great Moments in Chocolate History by Howard-Yana Shapiro

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Cbr15bingo edibles (bingo) Back at the beginning of May, my younger son asked me what I would like for Mothers Day. I told him that anything related to books, coffee or chocolate would be nice. He hit two out of three with this book, Great Moments in Chocolate History, published by National Geographic (2015). Howard-Yana Shapiro is a plant scientist and chief agricultural officer for Mars, Inc. This is a guy who knows chocolate science and provides a lot of interesting facts in relating the […]

I have questions about the pumpkin dip

Spectacular Spreads by Maegan Brown

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Bingo 24: Getaway from South America I’m swapping my free space for South America mostly because I don’t really have the time to go find something that fits, since I haven’t got anything immediately in mind.  What I have instead is a cookbook, which I like to read both for fun and for use, by one of two board book writers I actually liked enough to try recipes from. It turns out that TheBakerMama Maegan Brown has at least two books out beyond Beautiful Boards, […]



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