Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Red Velvet reps NY?

Baking Across America by B. Dylan Hollis

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I’m starting to think I might be getting a little old to appreciate late Gen Z/early Gen Alpha influencer-types. I wasn’t the hugest fan of Dylan Hollis’ first book, although I applaud the premise. I was thusly a bit unsure about the second book, but this one has some things going for it the first one did not. Our author hit the big time as a YouTube/social media foodie influencer with a focus on vintage Americana cookery. Baking Across America is framed as a “vintage” […]

A CIA book that’s more user friendly than I thought

Pies and Tarts by Kristina Petersen Migoya

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I like cookbooks, both for reading and for use. I’m always on the lookout for something new, interesting, or that might fill in a gap. I was mostly curious about what the CIA thought about Pies and Tarts which are some of my favorite things. Possible challenge here is that I usually don’t go for super chef-y cookbooks both because of the degree of difficulty and time required to gather ingredients, prepare sub recipes, and assemble; and the format that often shows up in the […]

Be your own country dessert providing grandma

250 Treasured Country Desserts by Andrea Chesman, Fran Raboff

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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 […]

Chocolate Sugar Cookies Anyone?

A Good Bake by Melissa Weller, Carolynn Carreno

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A baking book by someone who went to school for chemistry should be more interesting. I was hoping for more new stuff; instead mostly there’s a base recipe (sourdough, challah, croissant, etc) and some variations. Not to say there’s nothing here I’d try, rye in a pate sucree (basically a pie dough) sounds intriguing, as does carrot, currant, pecan loaf. The author is pretty open about their background as well as their preferences in terms of ingredients and equipment; the issue is for me that […]

I do love to bake but with this book I’m not so sure

The Great British Baking Show Love to Bake by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, the Bakers

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I may have to re-impose my occasional moratorium on cookbooks, specifically baking, for a while. The Great British Baking Show released the annual cookbook to accompany the most recent season on Dec. 22; I pre-ordered. Due some unforeseen delays, I only just got the book a few days ago. The problem I have is that I only just started working my way through Pieometry; I’m a good ways through my Paul Hollywood book (How to Bake), but there’s still a lot to get through with […]

Pandemic Project Worthy Pies

Pieometry by Lauren Ko

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This is probably my last review of the year 2020, and I’m glad it’s a pretty good one. I should also note that this is a review of a cookbook that I have not made any recipes from yet. I plan to start tomorrow, but by that point it may be too late to review for this year. I have however read the whole thing, so I don’t feel too bad about that. One reason I want to review Pieometry for 2020 is that in […]



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