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From a very early age I have read cookbooks like novels– curled up on the couch perusing recipe after recipe, scanning images of plated food that tell a story of their own. Even when immersing myself in a novel, I find I am more drawn to those in which culinary delights play an integral role in the lives of the characters. I am certain that this literary devotion to food, and the passion my parents helped instill in me for quality ingredients and companionable cooking are what led me to begin a professional cooking career as a young adult.

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Pecan brownies for the soul

The love affair of Myra Sims and Gabriel Catts will break your heart. And Claybird Catts will steal it. Janis Owens's three novels centering on the life of Myra—who has a past more tragic than most, and a present she just can't seem to hold on to—are beautifully haunting. My…
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April 7, 2014
Fiction

What would Hemingway eat? A menu for a Moveable Feast

I realized, as I worked my way through Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, that he titled it so because his time in Paris was an ongoing banquet of social activities, incessant writing, and literal feasting and imbibing from one café to the next. It was also most apparent to me…
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March 24, 2014
Miscellany

Book Club Recipe: The Girl You Left Behind

Meeting with your book club this month to discuss THE GIRL YOU LEFT BEHIND? Try making this amazing dish inspired by the novel. Chou Farci It’s sausage meat, some vegetables and herbs, wrapped in cabbage leaves and poached in stock." When Sophie asks the Kommandant in The Girl You Left…
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December 15, 2013