To Die For by Rosie Grant

October 13, 2025

Even with that title, Rosie Grant’s book isn’t a mystery. It’s actually called To Die For: A Cookbook of Gravestone Recipes.The stories about the forty recipes do become a little repetitious, but the ideas behind this book are fascinating. A little...

The In Death Cookbook by Theresa Carle-Sanders

October 07, 2025

I mentioned Theresa Carle-Sanders book, The In Death Cookbook, several months ago. The foreword is by J.D. Robb, who writes the wonderful In Death series featuring Eve Dallas and her husband, Roarke. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the photographers who...

Kitchen Yarns by Ann Hood

December 04, 2018

Ah, Ann Hood. I know she’s written other books, and I’ve read other ones, but I identified with her memoir/essay collection Morningstar: Growing Up with Books. Now, she has given us a memoir about another essential part of her life. Kitchen Yarns: Notes on...

My Kitchen Year by Ruth Reichl

September 23, 2015

When Gourmet magazine folded, Ruth Reichl had been editor in chief for ten years. She was lost. She felt as if the magazine had survived for almost seventy years, and folded on her watch. After she finished her book tour duties for the company, she and her husband...

Voracious by Cara Nicoletti

August 26, 2015

Isn’t it fascinating to discover what one reader gets out of a book when another misses it totally? I’ve read a number of the same books as author Cara Nicoletti has, but I never concentrated on the food in the books. She’s a butcher, a former pastry...