O ur latest Cook the Books Club read has been Sourdough by Robin Sloan.  And what a fun, often wacky, and very entertaining one it has ...

T his month at Eat the World we are featuring Argentina. Just the name makes me want to sing along with "Don't Cry for Me Ar...

I just finished The Dollhouse by Fiona Davis, a fine tale, blending the old with the new.  A present day reporter begins researching the...

I f any of you are familiar with the novels of Alexander McCall Smith, particularly the 44 Scotland Street series, you will have heard ...

So, I have joined a new Challenge group, called Eat the World !  This month the group is virtually visiting France, and every month, un...

T here are a number of authors I go back to again and again, but have never posted about.  We need to remedy that situation. Immediatel...

O n this round of Cook the Books Club we have been reading and getting inspired by  Garlic and Sapphires , a Ruth Reichl memoir, hosted ...

B eing a long time fancier of Indian food, I was happy to order, and receive so quickly,  Indian Cookery by Sameen Rushdie, recommended b...

A n absorbing novel on surviving family life after the death of one's mother, finding one's birth mother and birth sister, wantin...