I am currently hosting our bimonthly edition of Cook the Books Club , Dinner with Edward: A Story of an Unexpected Friendship , by Isa...

W hat a terrific Cookbook.  I keep telling myself, "You do NOT need any more cookbooks Claudia!!" - however we are making an ...

  T his novel, A Long Time Gone, by Karen White, takes place in the Mississippi Delta, my okra is getting harvested, and I was in the m...

J ennifer Ryan's debut novel, The Chilbury Ladies' Choir , is just marvelous, so inspiring and heart-warming.  A World War II tal...

  H ave j ust finished Tricky Twenty-Two , and must say  I really don't know how Janet Evanovich has so consistently accomplished pu...

 I've just finished a wonderful book by Kathleen Flinn, The Kitchen Counter Cooking School, How a Few Simple Lessons Transformed Ni...

I'm reading The Architect's Apprentice , by Elif Shafak, a truly Byzantine epic, and romantic tale involving, among other things...

Not long ago I posted about a type of tropical spinach, the Pacific Spinach , after I had succeeded in identifying it.  In doing so, ...

 L ots of reviews going on for this book, Stir - My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home, by Jessica Fechtor, and due to it b...