Kate & Frida by Kim Fay

March 11, 2025

Kim Fay’s novel, Love & Saffron, was published in 2022, one of my favorite novels that year. It was subtitled “A Novel of Friendship, Food, and Love”. I picked it up at the time because it was an epistolary novel, told in letters, and I’ll...

What I Ate In One Year by Stanley Tucci

November 02, 2024

Actor and writer Stanley Tucci talks about What I Ate In One Year (and related thoughts) in his latest book. Here are my related thoughts. I read and enjoyed his earlier book, Taste. However, if you’re a fan of audiobooks, which I am not, I’d suggest you...

The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

May 27, 2024

Ruth Reichl takes readers along on her journey to Paris in 1983. Food, fashion, and art are so essential to this book that it’s a treat for the senses as a reluctant visitor to the city discovers it. When Stella’s mother died, she was surprised to receive...

The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All by Mary Martha Greene

January 13, 2024

Our friend, Kaye Wilkinson Barley, recommended Mary Martha Greene’s The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All: Southern Recipes, Sweet Remembrances, and a Little Rambunctious Behavior on her own blog, Meanderings and Muses. It’s just the kind of cookbook I would...

Murder on the Vine by Camilla Trinchieri

September 10, 2022

If you’re a fan of David P. Wagner’s Italian mysteries, you might want to sample Camillia Trinchieri’s Tuscan Mysteries. Murder on the Vine is the third in the series. With the addition of a character list, you can easily pick up the stories about...