An intriguing book, The Everlasting Meal–Cooking with Economy and Grace, by Tamar Adler. She’s a Chez Panisse alum, and Alice Waters wrote the intro. As the author says at the beginning, it isn’t quite a cookbook, nor a memoir. She says she modeled it on MFK Fisher’s How To Cook A Wolf, and I can see the resemblance. Not many recipes, but lots of little suggestions and tangents.
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I just finished this collection of stories from the author of Suite Française:
I also Started a Gentleman in Moscow by Amore Towles but set it aside when my fourth book in the Neapolitan series by Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child, became available:
She’s an incredible writer.
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Does it say “why” she took her own life??
I mean it sounds like life was going pretty good for her… an author, a model and an actress.
Sounds like she had a pretty tumultuous life:
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It’s strange to think these stories were written in the (I think) late 1970s/early 1980s. They have a sensibility that is suited to the current day and age.
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Just in case folks might be looking to add to their reading lists (gift link):
(And I just realized I need to contribute some of what I’ve read this year, as well. There’s lots.)
I really enjoyed The Night Tiger a lot more than anticipated, and I found two others by the same author on Libby.
Now reading
Then
The author is the narrator, and I enjoyed her narration.
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I just finished (ebook from my library) Alton Brown’s latest: Food for Thought. Most of it bored me so I skimmed through a lot of it. There’s only one recipe: Roasting Chicken at 500°.
No thanks, I love Marcella Hazan’s Chicken with 2 lemons, breast side down first 35 minutes.
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I had to check it out twice (hard copy though th local library) because it became so WORDY! There are a few silly stories, tho.
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Also…
I’ve not tried to read two books at once, let alone non-fiction, but lots of folks are waiting on this one.
