Oh yes, I also enjoyed Ina’s book read by her. My mother was an uninspired usually tired after working all day cook and I became really interested in food and cooking as almost a reaction to the not great meals. I love to eat so that’s a great motivator.
I’ve also read a kind of silly but entertaining series by Colleen Cambridge that is set in Paris after the war and Julia Child and another woman solve murders together. It’s kind of fun and has lots of food in it.
I was able to download the 4 books above that I haven’t read (I need to check out the Mango Tree one, it rings a bell!).
I’m halfway through the Kish book … what a very loving family experience she had!
Happy Mothers’ Day. Make yours proud.
So, the Kish book is twice as long as it should be …
NSFW!
Classic.
Yeah I agree. I skimming through a lot of the last part until she gets her new job on top chef. She seems like a really good person but she repeats herself a lot in the book.
Just got the Gabrielle Hamilton memoir Next of Kin so going to continue my going to sleep reading about a chef. I enjoyed her first book Prune and ate at her restaurant in NYC along ago.
I’ve read Prune and Blood, Bones and Butter. Am ½ way through Next of Kin. If you’re looking for a light, pleasant read, stay away from this book. Heavy, depressing.
Uh oh thanks for the warning. May give it a pass then. Yes, the memoir was called blood bones and butter and I do remember enjoying it. May switch to my cosy murder mystery I also have in kindle.
It just depends … I’m going to finish reading it but it’s very heavy.
Every 
Single Word Of This.
Reading inspiration:
And yet more:
BEWBZ.
This is, I think, the opposite of the law in NYC. You can expose your breasts (in public) UNLESS it is for a commercial purpose.
Berlin allows going topless in parks & pools, but srsly… having grown up in a culture far more relaxed about nudity, i..e seeing it as a natural state of being & not something to be ashamed or objectified, the combo of puritanism and over-sexualization in this country has been difficult to adjust to. I don’t think I ever will.
Entire families hang out at nude beaches together. Grandpas and their granddaughters, fully naked. Together! I can practically hear Americans’ heads explode while speed-dialing CPS.
Yikes.
We have a few topless-friendly events here: the mermaid parade, the pride march, and “free the nipple” day. I actually think Germany and France might be the outliers, world-wide, though, in that most cultures aren’t as comfortable with nudity as those two countries. H & I spent some time at an onsen resort in Japan some years ago, and only in the same-gender areas were people permitted to bathe unclothed. Otherwise the women wore a polyester minidress that reminded me of my McDonald’s uniform shirt, and men had to hold small washcloths in front of themselves until they got into the water (this was pretty hilarious).
Scandinavia’s pretty chill re: nudity as well. Japan has its own gender issues, but really — most countries do, unfortunately, with women rarely coming out on top.
Now back to food novels & biographies, y’all.
Back to reading: a group of New Yorkers took advantage of the law there to form the Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society. They’d gather in parks, take off their shirts, and read trash novels.
