We participants at Cook the Books Club have been reading Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang.  The novel centers on an unnamed chef, 29,...

ABSOLUTELY!! Looking back at the highlights of our week, to be posted on the Sunday Salon, hosted by Deb Nance of Readerbuzz . Did you kn...

S he certainly did quite a bit of both.  Crying and eating in this memoir, which is our Cook the Books Clu b pick for October/November.   Cr...

  W hat an amazing book!  And, yes a true story, based on diaries and historical sources, The Zookeeper's Wife , by Diane Ackerman.  It...

  We at Cook the Books Club are currently reading  The Secret Life of Bees , by Sue Monk Kidd, hosted this round by Debra of Eliot's Eat...

Our latest Cook the Books Club pick is the clever and very entertaining novel by Colleen Cambridge, Mastering the Art of French Murder . ...

  My problem is not a surfeit of books to read, but of Ngaio Marsh novels I haven't read.  I might be at the end, but now re-reading one...

T he Portuguese Escape by Ann Bridge, an author I have only recently discovered, then also saddened to hear she is no longer with us, in on...

W hen you have uku (Hawaiian for plenty) ulu (breadfruit) then you make flour!   That way the useful season gets extended further into the y...

  O ur latest book selection for  Cook the Books Club has been Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, hosted this round by Debra of  Eliot...

    I first read about this popular, in some places, dessert, Halo-Halo, in my copy of  Filipinx, Heritage Recipes from the Diaspora , which...

The current read for our Cook the Books Club is Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , by Lewis Carroll, selected for us and hosted by Debr...

W ell, new for me at any rate.  I was doing that thing Foodies do, whilst reading a book.  Some  intriguing food is mentioned, a light bulb ...

Our Cook the Books Club current selection, Stanley Tucci - Taste My Life Through Food , presents us with a memoir full of opinion, memories...

Our current Cook the Books Club selection, hosted by Simona of Bricole , has been Red Sparrow by Jason Matthews.  According to the Publishe...

 Though I certainly don't post reviews with recipes for all the books I read, sometimes the urge comes when a novel is particularly appe...

Cinnamon and Gunpowder , by Eli Brown, was a jolly good read for sure, and our Cook the Books Club selection for October/ November.  I am ho...

  D on't you hate it when you've just read the last of a wonderfully written series.  Donna Leon's Transient Desires is such a o...

It's time at Cook the Books Club to report on our current read.  Which, right at this moment would be   Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe ...

I 've been reading some great books this summer, a few no finishes, and others merely okay.  This novel merits one of my lately infreque...