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The good news is I get to share another book review with y’all. The bad news is all of the dishes I’d prepared to photograph for this review perished when my freezer decided it was time for a diy defrost, which in turn caused the refrigerator to warm up and spoil all of the food.…
Read more Book Review | Tex – Mex Diabetes Cooking by Kelley Cleary Coffeen, PhD
Before delving into the world of dog nutrition, I feel like I have to acknowledge the oddity of having a dog (in clothes) alongside a book about dog nutrition. In other countries, dogs are nutrition (but that’s another discussion all together about the ethics and practices behind that). As far as the camo vest goes, to…
Read more Book Review |Yin & Yang Nutrition for Dogs by Judy Morgan DVM and Hue Grant
To be completely honest, I wasn’t sure what to expect with this next title. The cover reads “easy recipes and kitchen hacks for rookies,” which to me, can mean one of two things: either the book is a bunch of common kitchen knowledge and bland recipes, or it is a treasure trove of kitchen tips…
Read more Books | Just a French Guy Cooking by Alexis Gabriel Ainouz
The first day of summer calls for something sweet! In Lisa Valmorbida’s new book, Pidapipó: Eight Days a Week, she celebrates this Italian favorite (as well as recipes for many other old and new Italian desserts), with a twist: you don’t just have to read about gelato, you can make it, too! You’ll find over…
Read more Book Review | Pidapipó: Eight Days a Week by Lisa Valmorbida
There’s something to be said about taking the time to pause and enjoy life. I’m not talking about posting an Instagram quote with inspiring hashtags, but actually being intentional about your thoughts and actions. In her new book, Lagom, Swedish food stylist and cookery writer, Steffi Knowles-Dellner, explores the eponymous Scandinavian word (“lagom”), which roughly…
Hopefully your turkey comas have subsided and now you’re ready to start thinking about Christmas! No really, after Thanksgiving, I legitimately took a three-hour nap because of all the tryptophan (even though Snopes says this is #fakenews, I fell asleep almost immediately after shoveling down a generous portion of pumpkin pie…so it was either the…
Read more Book Review | The Tivoli Road Baker by Michael James with Pippa James
**WINNERS OF SIGNED BOOK GIVEAWAY ANNOUNCED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST** If I asked you where “quinoa” and “chia” recipes originated, you’d probably say some health blogger on the internet. While it’s true that superfoods have quite a presence in today’s food scene, they actually date back several thousand years ago to the Andes…
