fruit – Cannonball Read 17

Peel Me a Grape

The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce, and OBSESSION by Adam Leith Gollner

December 3, 2023 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

CBR15 Passport Borneo Way back in my college days (so many decades ago!) there was this guy in our dorm who would only eat fruit and nuts that had fallen from a tree on their own. (Oddly enough, it seems as though weed also fell off the plant on its own. Who knew.) So, Daniel, I have no idea whatever happened to you, but cheers. This book is dedicated to fruitarians, folks who, quite often, eat nothing but. And we aren’t talking about apples and […]

Be your own country dessert providing grandma

250 Treasured Country Desserts by Andrea Chesman, Fran Raboff

October 29, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

Bingo 25: Cozy What’s cozier than grandma’s best homemade dessert? Not much, I’d say. 250 Treasured Country Desserts provides. This is one of those recipe collections that’s got the expected standards like molasses cookies, apple cake, jelly roll, lemon meringue pie (also lemon angel pie which looks like basically the same thing?), fruit buckle, and pudding. It’s also got some more interesting, newer to me items that I want to try like orange poppyseed cake (closely related to the lemon standard probably but a slightly […]

Expect the Unexpected with the Manga Cookbook

Manga Cookbook by Annonymus

December 13, 2021 by CoffeeShopReader 2 Comments

It’s always a fun surprise with Book Exchange, but this year one of my books came with a second extra surprise. Manga Cookbook appears on the surface to be a cookbook based on manga as in Japanese graphic novels given both the title and the cover illustrations. However…… It turns out that “manga” is also an Indian word for “mango”, and it is this definition which is intended. Nearly all of the recipes feature some sort of mango. I say ‘some sort’ because I do […]

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