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Forget Pie. You’ll Want to Make These Thanksgiving Alternatives from Violet Cakes Bakery

This may sound like sacrilege, but on Thanksgiving I don’t do pie. That doesn’t mean we don’t have pie; a fantastic local farm kitchen fills that need, but I don’t bake pies. Ever. While I do terrific fillings, the alchemy that results in a tender, flaky crust has always eluded…

JeriAnn GellerNovember 20, 2015

Nonfiction

Smart Reads: Real Life Heroes, Villains and Monsters

Villains and monsters are so much more frightening in the world of non-fiction. While we can reassure ourselves that the horrors of fiction aren’t real and sleep with the lights on, the comfort in non-fiction lies in the books themselves. By shining a light on the darkest hearts we lessen…

JeriAnn GellerNovember 19, 2015

Nonfiction

Thinking of Going Vegan? Let These 2 Cookbooks be Your Guide

Forward-thinking culinary adventures have been the main course lately, from Mark Bittman joining The Purple Carrot (a subscription service where healthy, premeasured vegan ingredients are delivered to your door) to Panera Bread announcing that they are adding more plant-based ingredients to their menu in an effort to keep their guests…

Amanda HarknessNovember 17, 2015

Nonfiction

TED Talks: John McWhorter on Why Texting is Good for the Brain

Do you hate or love the lingo we use while texting? Do the grammatical inaccuracies irk you, or do you delight in the weird way we shorten words and create new ones? In this eye-opening talk from TED 2013, linguist John McWhorter discusses the way texting is revolutionizing the way…

Katie HiresNovember 17, 2015

Nonfiction

Going South: 3 Books That Explore Life Below the Mason-Dixon Line

“The South is a strange place, one that can’t be fit inside a movie, a place that dares you to simplify it, like a prime number, like a Bible story, like my father.” For our latest round of Shelfie picks, we return to our friends at Square Books, located in…

Ben S. DutkaNovember 13, 2015

Nonfiction

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

There are many ways to try to visualize major clinical depression, a disorder that affects one out of every five women and one out of every eight men. The picture I always found most accurate comes from a scene in the Tom Hanks movie Cast Away. One moment, he’s on…

Michael RuscoeNovember 13, 2015

Nonfiction

Greg O’Brien: Learning to Live, and Not Die, with Alzheimer’s Disease

Greg O'Brien There’s hardly a family in America that hasn’t been touched by Alzheimer’s disease. More than 5.4 million people live with the disease and 500,000 die from it each year. Alzheimer’s is not a normal part of aging and without being able to cure or prevent it, in the next…

Carole ClapsNovember 11, 2015

Nonfiction

Cook Like Nonna with Lidia Bastianich’s Latest Cookbook

Let’s face it—nobody can cook like Nonna. If you have ever attempted to dazzle family and friends by recreating authentic Italian recipes and you don't have an Italian grandmother handy, you need to go to the source. It doesn’t get more authentic than Lidia Bastianich, the Emmy-winning host of WGBH’s…

Katie HiresNovember 11, 2015

Nonfiction

War Photographer Robert Cunningham Honors our Veterans

Few civilians have captured the service of our active military and veterans as vividly as embedded war photographer Robert L. Cunningham. Embed War Photographer Robert L. Cunningham He has worked throughout Afghanistan, primarily beside the U.S. Army’s 1st Infantry, 10th Mountain, and 101st Airborne Divisions. He recently returned from his…

Carole ClapsNovember 11, 2015

Nonfiction

‘Charlie Mike’: The Story of Veterans Who Continue to Serve Through Team Rubicon

The woman at the Red Cross said Port-au-Prince, Haiti was too dangerous for untrained volunteers after the earthquake when Marine veteran Jake Wood called to volunteer in January 2010. “It’s complete chaos there,” she said. 'Charlie Mike' author Joe Klein “I’m a marine,” he replied. “We do chaos.” Wood hung…

Michael RuscoeNovember 10, 2015

Nonfiction

Shonda Rhimes Inspires Positivity with a Year of Yes!

Shonda Rhimes just reminded me what happens when you spend a year saying, “Yes!” to life’s possibilities. In 2008 this became my mantra. It had been a bad year—major surgery, my employer cheated out of $90 million by Bernie Madoff, massive layoffs (including me), the end of a valued relationship.…

JeriAnn GellerNovember 10, 2015

Nonfiction

Review: The Mad Feast is This Year’s Fun and Frantic Cookbook

Matthew Gavin Frank’s previous book was about the discovery of the giant squid, and he has also written memoirs of working at a marijuana farm and an Italian vineyard. Given that unconventional publishing history and his background—he spent 20 years in the restaurant industry but is also a poet and…

Rebecca FosterNovember 9, 2015

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Ron Finley Discusses Urban Gardening as Social Rebellion

Ron Finley sees soil as his tapestry, something to be embellished with renewable food that brings his community together. He gave this week’s TED Tuesday talk, “A Guerilla Gardener in South Central LA” at TED 2013, and spoke about his passion project: creating vegetable gardens in his urban neighborhood inside…

Katie HiresNovember 3, 2015

Nonfiction

Welcome to NaNoWriMo! What It Is and How You Can Start Writing a Novel

The idea of writing a novel may sound romantic and exciting, but in reality it’s a pretty daunting proposition. November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo to those in the know) and you might be thinking about joining the hundreds of thousands of people who seek to complete the writer’s…

Katie HiresNovember 2, 2015

Nonfiction

Prohibition: Lost Drink Recipes from a 1920s Bootlegger

Matthew Rowley Equal parts history, chemistry and alcohol make a delicious formula for an entertaining read. You don’t need to love drinking to enjoy Lost Recipes of Prohibition: Notes from a Bootlegger’s Manual (Countryman Press, October 28 2015). The new book from noted whiskey enthusiast and author Matthew Rowley was…

Katie HiresOctober 30, 2015

Nonfiction

TED Talks: Candy Chang Discusses Her Before I Die Project

Art has the power to create inspiration from hardship, the power to bring emotional clarity to difficult times, and the power to make people laugh like idiots. Artist Candy Chang, in this week’s TED Tuesday pick, describes her Before I Die project, where she took a blank public wall and…

Katie HiresOctober 27, 2015

Forget Pie. You’ll Want to Make These Thanksgiving Alternatives from Violet Cakes Bakery

Smart Reads: Real Life Heroes, Villains and Monsters

Thinking of Going Vegan? Let These 2 Cookbooks be Your Guide

TED Talks: John McWhorter on Why Texting is Good for the Brain

Going South: 3 Books That Explore Life Below the Mason-Dixon Line

Finding an Island of Hope in a Sea of Depression is The Happiness Quest

Greg O’Brien: Learning to Live, and Not Die, with Alzheimer’s Disease

Cook Like Nonna with Lidia Bastianich’s Latest Cookbook

War Photographer Robert Cunningham Honors our Veterans

‘Charlie Mike’: The Story of Veterans Who Continue to Serve Through Team Rubicon

Shonda Rhimes Inspires Positivity with a Year of Yes!

Review: The Mad Feast is This Year’s Fun and Frantic Cookbook

TED Talks: Ron Finley Discusses Urban Gardening as Social Rebellion

Prohibition: Lost Drink Recipes from a 1920s Bootlegger

TED Talks: Candy Chang Discusses Her Before I Die Project

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