culinary – Cannonball Read 17

Because misogyny has a thousand words for “unhinged bitch” but not a single one for “multiple female orgasm”

If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

June 9, 2024 by carmelpie 10 Comments

I thought it appropriate that, on the day of my Cannonball, I declare that I have a new hero: Geraldine DeRuiter. In 2019, she won the James Beard Foundation Award, in the category of Personal Essay Long Form, for her Everywhereist.com blog post titled “I Made the Pizza Cinnamon Rolls From Mario Batali’s Sexual Misconduct Apology Letter.” This is not why she is my hero. However, if you read this book you may understand why her story resonated with me. If You Can’t Take the […]

The Randomness of Food Trends Past at the Antique Store

The Southern Junior League Cookbook by Ann Seranne

January 2, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader 5 Comments

I don’t especially care for antique stores, but sometimes they do have interesting books, especially things like The Southern Junior League Cookbook. This book dates to the late seventies, and has recipes from about 30 different Junior League cookbooks from North Carolina to Florida, and Georgia to Texas. A lot of it is the sort of thing you’d expect, home cookery recipes and what we might now call ‘hacks’ for most of your basic categories from Appetizers and Soup to Meat and Poultry to Grains-Beans-Peas […]

Dying for Brain Candy? A cozy fine mystery series.

Dying for Chocolate (A Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, #2) by Diane Mott Davidson

December 4, 2020 by cheerbrarian Leave a Comment

I really don’t want to write 250 pages about this, but I’ll give it a whirl. This book was fine and the series is fine and I’ll probably keep reading them but they aren’t setting the world on fire, just a cozy mystery series. Goldy Bear is a caterer in somewhere Colorado raising her son, tangling with her abusive ass of an ex-husband, and of course, being also tangled up with people who die under mysterious circumstances. Tangled is a good word for this book […]

Culinary Catnip (for me, anyway)

January 17, 2017 by Kiasha 2 Comments

I’m a complete sucker for food-related books, especially biographies and memoirs. If you have a recipe collection with a few essays woven in? I’m in heaven. The Apprentice was a stand-out in this regard, since it had food, biography, and France, so I was completely unable to resist its many many charms. More uncontrollable gushing can be found here! Sidebar: searching for an amazon link for this book mostly got me links to a certain reality TV series, and now my delightful high from this […]

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