by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
by Jennie Schacht Chronicle Books, $24.95, 208 pages For many, Farmers’ Market season is the best time of year. In some areas, you may be able to find year-round markets. Though focused on markets throughout California, the seasons of fruit follow the same pattern....
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
by Daisy Martinez Atria Books, $16.99, 163 pages Daisy’s Holiday Cooking Latin cookbook is written by Daisy Martinez who first appeared on a PBS series called “Daisy Cooks” and, in 2009, began a series on the Food Network called “Viva Daisy”. While she titles this...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Cooking, Food & Drinks
by Francoise Bernard Translated by Jane Sigal Rizzoli, $45.00, 806 pages La Cuisine: Everyday French Home Cooking 1000 Simply Recipes by Francoise Bernard is a luscious and enticingly thick cookbook with surprisingly few and simple ingredient requirements. One, to...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Young Adult
by Cheryl Rainfield Westside Books, $16.95, 248 pages Cheryl Rainfield’s account of a teenage cutter, Scars, is a poignant, fictionalized story based on the author’s own self-harming episodes. Fifteen-year-old Kendra is struggling to recall the identity of her sexual...
by Site Owner | Jun 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's
by Herve Tullet Abrams Books, $14.50, 96 pages If your child or student told you that their book had a hole in it, you’d look into having it repaired. That is not the case with Herve Tullet’s newest book, The Book with a Hole, where every page has a huge hole right in...
