The Corsican Caper is another of Peter Mayles' light, summer reading type thrillers, with beaucoup good food and wine mingled th...

F or Cook the Books Club this round we have been reading Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, by Anya Von Bremzen, the title of he...

 I am going to recommend an excellent book here: Conclave , by Robert Harris.  When I pulled it off my TBR stack there were doubts.  Am I...

Having been a fan of Ruth Reichl for quite a few years, I'm only surprised it took me this long to read her latest memoir/cookbook, ...

P eter Mayle's The Marseille Caper was a terrifically enjoyable read, right from the first sentence:  "Shock has a chilling...

 T his post has only a marginal link between book and culinary interest.   Trade wind by M. M. Kaye, is set in Zanzibar, so I had though...

 O ver the last few years I have enjoyed reading Diane Mott Davidson's fun culinary mysteries, starring her intrepid, nosy heroine, ...

  B ertie needed a bit of comfort food in this book, another from the inimitable writings of Alexander McCall Smith, The Bertie Project ...

 Ever since the bit of time I spent in Greece, and subsequently buying Greek cookbooks, I've been intending to make one of those lov...