Customer Reviews:
Funny, easy read.......2007-09-04
If you liked the previous 2 Hannah Swensen mysteries Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (Hannah Swensen Mysteries) and Strawberry Shortcake Murder: A Hannah Swensen Mystery (A Hannah Swensen Murder), you'll like this one just as much. It is a quick, easy read, and very entertaining. Great recipes too - makes me want to bake!
good, but not my favorite.......2007-05-21
I thought the book was good, but nothing really made it stand out either. People will like it because it is a series and there are lots of them and it's a genre that has a following. Strikes me as very similar to the "The Cat Who..." series as far as one dimensional characterizations and story style. The recipes are a fun addition and actually work as part of the story rather than being a gimmick like some "mysteries with recipes" I've read have been... though I wonder how Hannah's bakery stays in business, the recipes I've tried aren't that great. The Blue Blueberry Muffins didn't taste very much like blueberry, were too sweet and were NOT blue, more a nasty battleship gray! All in all a comfortable series to turn to with generally likeable characters but not at the head of the reading list for me.
A pleasant but conventional cosy.......2006-09-23
Hannah Swensen is the baker of delicious pastries, as well as the amatuer sleuth that keeps running into dead bodies in a small Minnesota town. Her investigative technique is straightforward and not very imaginative, but the delicious recipes and the warm personal interplay make it for a satisfying and occasionally funny read. One or two of the supporting characters are interesting, but most others are rather flat plot devices, including the victim.
The book does not demand much exertion from the reader, and neither strives for nor achieves a deep emotional engagement, but it works admirably as a cosy diversion.
ONE OF THE BEST COZY MYSTERY SERIES.......2006-08-11
These mysteries are COZY and INTERESTING and GOOD!!! They are perfect!!! I could not ask for a better mystery!!! Not only is the setting and atmosphere cozy, but the clues, story line, and pacing are perfect! This author definitely has talent!!! The clues are perfectly and cleverly crafted and lead to the mystery solving. And the characters - you feel like you know them!!! I love this small town and all the characters. Not just the main characters, but the other characters have purpose and meaning in this book.
In this book, cooking celebrity Connie Mac came to town and had to use Hannah's oven in her cookie shop one evening. Hannah, the main character, came to her cookie shop the next morning, and instead of finding a clean oven, she found a dead body.
Hannah was determined to find out who the killer was, and why they did it. All the twists and surprises made the book that much more interesting.
This book made me so hungry for muffins - you wouldn't believe how many I ate while reading the book!
Yummy ! Yummy !.......2006-02-21
Cooking and Baking are steady hobbies at our place.
So, when we saw the food titles of Joanne Fluke mystery novels,
we had not only to read but also to test the recipes: SURPRISE!
they work !!! The Blue Blueberry Muffins are now regular staples
of our breakfast.
As for the book itself, it is entertaining yet, the conclusion
came as too, too much unexpected; we would have wished for maybe
a little more hints along our reading. Nevertheless, we bought
more of the series, and are still enjoying the reading and, the
recipes indeed.
Book Description
A desperate mother spirits away her infant son, seemingly drawn (chased, perhaps?) to the small English village of Thornyhill. She ends up on the doorstep of old Bartlemy, a curious man who has lived on the forested land for as long as anyone can remember–and who comes to believe that the child is destined for great things. . . .
While growing up under Bartlemy’s protective eye, Nathan Ward senses something else watching him, a shift of shadows in the surrounding Darkwood. Then pieces of his dreams begin to come to life. A man he saved from the ocean washes ashore on the television news. A greenish stone cup set with jewels that has haunted his visions sounds eerily like one lost by the Thorn family centuries ago–a cup that has recently made its way back into the hands of the village’s last living ancestor.
Yet when Nathan learns the chalice may have come from another world, a land with bloodstained moons and a toxic sun, he knows he is destined to play a part in something beyond his most vivid imagination. But why is the cup here, and what could it possibly want with a teenage boy and a sleepy town of villagers full of tall tales? With the help of his best friend, Hazel, Nathan must figure out why he’s been chosen–and for what purpose. Even if it means traveling deeper each night into dreams, into lands, into legends that both terrify and mesmerize him.
The Greenthorn Grail is the first novel of a thrilling new trilogy, tracing a boy’s journey–a quest rife with magic, wonder, and forces as dark as midnight.
From the Hardcover edition.
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A desperate mother spirits away her infant son, seemingly drawn (chased, perhaps?) to the small English village of Thornyhill. She ends up on the doorstep of old Bartlemy, a curious man who has lived on the forested land for as long as anyone can remember–and who comes to believe that the child is destined for great things…. The Greenstone Grail is the first novel of a thrilling new trilogy, tracing a boy’s journey–a quest rife with magic, wonder, and forces as dark as midnight.
Customer Reviews:
Cannot be classified as a book for only adults or only teenagers.......2007-03-05
I'll leave the details of The Greenstone Grail to others here as they have already been elaborated upon. My purpose of writing a review is to note how remarkable this book is. I have been a reader for many years of various genres. Some have been disappointing and others have been very satisfying. I would put this book into the latter category.
Curiously, this story is a blend of fantasy and science fiction. However, my local library has it classified as an ordinary story. It is also listed in the adult section, while others have noted that it is more suited to teenagers. It can't be classified one way or another and that is a sign of a good story. A good story draws one in and shuts out the ordinary world. A good story makes one question the world around and look differently at the events that make up one's life.
While it is only a story, who hasn't longed to know something of the extraordinary? Our world seems bent on overwhelming reality. Reality is reality with its own set of rules, but we are primitives in modern accoutrements. Our very beings long for some of the mystical and unknowns that our early ancestors knew. If one book can bring out only a little of that, then it is a book worth reading. It has been a long time since I found a book that I felt ended too early. I look forward to the next installment.
The Geenstone Grail (Sangreal Trilogy).......2006-07-14
This book kept my daughters and me on the edges of our seats. If you or your children enjoy Harry Potter then here is his match. We are weighting with bated breath for the next installment in the Trilogy -- What happens next??? I am sure will delight and fascinate!!!!!!!
excellent start to series.......2006-04-17
If one has to accept the fact that almost all fantasy books are now the beginning of a series (and we're just about to that point), then at least The Greenstone Grail is a compelling enough beginning to leave the reader wanting more while still resolving at least this portion of the story. Grail opens nicely with a bit of suspense and mystery as Annie Ward, carrying her infant son, is chased/herded, down a dark unfamiliar road by things dark and barely seen. She stumbles across a haven in the form of the small home of Bartleby Goodman, whose sight clearly has some power. From there we jump to when Nathan is thirteen years old and about to embark on the adventures of the trilogy.
Half the story involves a local legend regarding the Greenstone Grail, a family legacy lost centuries ago that seemingly has returned and is about to be auctioned off. The resurfacing of the cup leads to a legal battle, some strange mystical events, an old, usually harmless witch ("grat-grandmother" to Nathan's best friend) biting off more than she could chew, and eventually a murder or two.
The other half of the story involves Nathan's emerging and improving ability to dream himself into a strange dying world where magic exists and whose inhabitants (steadily decreasing) are becoming more desperate to find someplace to move where the encroaching "virus" that has killed off most of their universe won't find them.
It doesn't take the most astute reader to figure out that eventually the two stories will have something to do with one another. Meanwhile, toss in a vengeful waterspirit, a mysterious couple who just moved into the small town, Nathan's best friend Hazel who is both repelled and compelled by her own potential Gift for magic, a dog who is more than a dog, an old-time bumblingly benign inspector, an otherworldly princess, and a host of other items and you have a book whose numerous parts mesh together wonderfully well.
The plot is both complex and nicely compelling. The coming-of-age portion of the story is handled subtly and with humor. The characters could do with a bit more edge or vividness, with the exception of Annie who comes across strongly. If Nathan seems a bit too good or too wise/eloquent for the typical 13-yr-old, the author gives us a built-in reason for this.
All in all, Greenstone Grail stands out as one of the best of the many, many offering in young adult fantasy--better written, better plotted than most. It doesn't quite achieve the quality of the Bartimeus trilogy by Stroud or the Gregor series, and falls somewhere in between the two with regard to target age (though can be enjoyed by older teens/adults), but it is a welcome addition. Highly recommmended.
Great Story about the Grail with Amazing Execution to Overused Ideas!.......2006-04-11
Amanda Hemingway is fast on her way to becoming a favorite author, a position hardly easy to achieve as Neil Gaiman has happily held that position for years. For now however, Amanda Hemingway-otherwise known as Jan Seigel for her untitled Atlantis and Fern Capel trilogy- has a way of touching upon and writing the stories and bringing forth the ideas that one all knows and loves without making a cliche of them or treating them with thinly veiled contempt. Simply because they are a requirement of story progression.
_The Greenstone Grail_ is the first novel in the Sangreal Trilogy, following the exploits of Nathan Ward in his quest to recover the scattered items that may or may not save a cluster of worlds on the edges of the universe. The story starts out with Nathan's Mother Annie, making her way with an infant Nathan in tow to a town where she may potentially have a job. Pursued by an invisible force that she can neither name or explain, she manages to stumble right into the path of one Bartleby Goodman and his far to intelligent dog "Hoover". Bartleby, one of "The Gifted" (a term used in her last trilogy, written under the penname Jan Siegel) sees Annie's plight and lets her into his home. From there we traverse across thirteen years to modern day where Nathan's adventures start as he grew up to be a smart, popular and good hearted young man and perhaps what one would considered an old fashioned hero. Intelligent, athletic and irrevociably drawn towards goodness that leaves the reader with a warm glow of satisfaction. Nathan is an all around good guy that is rarely seen now a days both in fiction and in reality. While his Mother Annie is a good woman and a decent Mother and a likeable narrator, neither bogged down by Hemingway's other herione-Fern's-unexplainable and constantly strong denial and almost rut in the mud attitude towards life. Indeed when strange happenings begin, Annie accepts them without comment or betraying action and goes on to handle her life as best she can whilst supernatural things happen all around her. All focusing on finding an item of far off and familiar mythology while the unknown or possibly known antagonist (Hemingway handles the mystery of the villain in the story expertly, keeping them a constant precense without revealing to much of them early) of the story looms threateningly. Nathan is accompanied by his good friend Hazel, his faithful dog Hoover, with help of Bartleby and even a rescued traveler from another world. Even while Nathan dreams himself into other worlds in his sleep, becoming more and more substantial as he travels...
Hemingway's close to the edge of purple prose is subdued in this novel, still there with great descriptions and realistic dialogue and steady and good pacing it's also toned down enough for the young adult market. One almost wishes that Hemingway would use such language and writing style in all her future volumes. For this novel, perhaps it having something to do with being marketed as a Young Adult novel or having learned from previous writing experiences, _The Greenstone Grail_ is a clean novel with a deft hand and concise well contained plot. The novel has a set ending that can leave the reader satisfied it also leaves the potential and indeed almost promise of future volumes in the series. Everything in the story fits in it's place while still retaining an air of mystery and though the title belays another book in the endless series of Arthur and Camelot mix, happily Arthur never even comes once into the story and indeed Camelot is thankfully never mentioned. While it is another story in the long overused plot device of the Holy Grail, with promises of future volumes dealing with other famous Camelot like items, it is in Hemingway's complete removal of Camelot itself that brings together this novel and makes it stand out in a genre that is regaled to, too often used cliches and retellings of the same story that had already once been told to death. _The Greenstone Grail_ is a good novel worthy of many rereadings, while definitely deserving a place on the keeper shelf. Reccomended for fantasy lovers, lovers of the oft familiar plot of finding the "Holy" grail and a must for all Young Adult and Young Adult fantasy lovers.
Advanced mystery readers will like this book.......2006-02-26
A world is dying. Its only chance for survival lies with a Great Spell that nobody knows how to perform. What they do know is that they need three objects of power- a cup, a sword, and a crown. Strange things are happening in Eade, a peaceful English town that is home to a boy called Nathan. Nathan has dreams of a world that is contaminated by magic. He gradually realizes that he is dreaming of a real world, a world completely different from his own. The Grimthorn Grail is a cup that once belonged to the Thorn family that is said to have strange powers. The only remaining Thorn descendant wants the cup back and is trying desperately to prove that the original sale was illegal. As Nathan's dreams become more and more real and he learns about this other world, he realizes the fatal problems that it is facing. The cup comes from the other world, he is sure of it, but he also thinks that it was sent to his world for safekeeping until a need to use its powers arose. Where does the cup truly belong? Can the world be saved?
"The Greenstone Grail," is the first novel in a trilogy, each focusing on in turn on one of the three powerful objects, each full of unanswered questions. Vivid descriptions bring the story to life as Nathan, his mother, and his best friend discover knew dangers and complications in their quest to set things right. Amanda Hemmingway weaves the story of a world that has an unbelievable problem and a young boy who just might have the power to set things right. Advanced mystery readers will enjoy the many unanswered questions of the book as each different character encounters fears and problems of their own.
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Celebrating its 35th year with Showcase 2001, the Nebula Awards anthology series once again offers a fine snapshot of the world of science fiction. Edited by former Nebula Award winner Robert Silverberg, the anthology mixes stories, excerpts, and poetry with essays from speculative fiction notables. Silverberg introduces the collection with a hazy nonexplanation of why works from both 1998 and 1999 are considered for the 1999 Nebula Awards, along with the story of Damon Knight, how SFWA began, and what happened during that first Nebula banquet.
Of course, the reason for the anthology is the winning stories, and they are on display with nice introductions from Silverberg and a bit from each writer on how the story came to be. Featured stories include Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" (best novella), Mary A. Turzillo's "Mars Is No Place for Children" (best novelette), Leslie What's "The Cost of Doing Business" (best short story), and an excerpt from Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Talents (best novel). Other stories include two nominees, David Marusek's "The Wedding Album" and Michael Swanwick's "Radiant Doors," as well as 2000 Grand Master Brain W. Aldiss's 1958 story "Judas Danced."
The most notable essay in the Nebula Showcase comes from Gary K. Wolfe, who examines the field of science fiction and publishing from several different angles, although Wolfe's take on SF movies seems to be thrown in as an afterthought. Winding up the anthology is a thoughtful and enlightening excerpt from Author Emeritus 2000 Daniel Keyes's memoir, Algernon, Charlie, and I: A Writer's Journey, which is about how he wrote Flowers for Algernon, and poetry from Rhysling Award Winners Bruce Boston and Laurel Winter.
For anyone serious about science fiction, the Nebula Awards Showcase 2001 provides an invaluable look at how the professionals view their field. --Kathie Huddleston
Book Description
Edited by the widely acclaimed SF author Robert Silverberg, the Nebula Awards series is "the pulse of modern science fiction" (The New York Times Book Review)
The Nebula Awards are the Academy Awards of science fiction, the finest works each year in the genre as voted by the members of SFWA, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
The Nebula Awards anthology series has now reached its thirty-fifth year. This edition contains the complete award-winning texts by Ted Chiang, Mary A. Turzillo, Leslie What, and Octavia E. Butler (an excerpt from her novel The Parable of the Talents); a report on the field ("still inarguably dynamic") by Gary K. Wolfe; runner-up stories by David Marusek and Michael Swanwick; an early story by 2000 Grand Master Brian W. Aldiss; and 2000 Author Emeritus Daniel Keyes's account of how he wrote Flowers for Algernon.
In his introduction, editor Robert Silverberg looks back wryly at Damon Knight, the beginnings of SFWA, and the first Nebula banquets.
Customer Reviews:
Nothing but doom and gloom.......2003-04-16
I remember earlier sci fi collections having stories with a variety of outcomes; positive and negative. There's nothing uplifting in this collection. Makes me wonder if the the writers and the judges are all a bunch of depressed souls. Unless you're looking for that last book to read before you off yourself, I'd skip this one.
luck of material.......2001-07-25
why publishing this book ? it says 2001, but include stories from the 90's. it's more bibilographic stuff and comentery then literature. for the stories :
"story of your live" - ted chiang - 4 stars - the best story in the book, enlightning and entertaining.
"mars is not place for children" - mary turizilo - 3 stars, written by influence of the nasa sojourn and the rover , that landed on mars, more like kid's story with publicity to NASA then SF.
"the cost of doing buisiness" - i realy don't think this is SF story (this follow the line of kony willis nebula showcase that included many "un-ortodox" SF stories - 3 stars.
"epilogogue from parable of the talents" - i also don't think this is SF story, or any relation for SF - 3 stars.
i'll skip on the "unhidden agendas" article...
"the weding album" by david marusek - was the best story in "the years best acience fiction edited by gardner dozois" from 99 - did i mentioned "luck of material". - 4 stars.
"radiant doors" - 3 stars - kind of terminator short story.
judas danced - didn't like the writing at all - 2 stars.
"algernon charlie and i" by daniel keyes - bibiliographic borring stuff.
so what we have her - not much of interesting reading, more like item for collectors and SFWA members. i want to recomend on the 2000 showcase edited by gergory benford which was much better and homourious, probebly since benford is not part of the SFWA system like willis and silverberg.
Great Collection of Short Fiction.......2001-04-06
Celebrating their 35th anniversary, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) collect the final award-winning short fiction of the old millennium in Nebula Awards Showcase 2001, edited by SF legend Robert Silverberg. This volume gathers together the winning short story, novella, and novellette - plus selected runners-up and non-fiction commentaries. Highlights include:
"Story of Your Life" by Ted Chiang (Best Novella), in which a woman learns to break away from her time-constrained thinking while deciphering the language of visiting aliens.
"Mars is No Place for Children" by Mary A. Turzillo (Best Novellette), the heart-rending tale of a young girl growing up on Mars, where the ever-present solar radiation is tragically lethal to kids.
"The Cost of Doing Business" by Leslie What (Best Short Story), telling of a future where "surrogates" agree to act as stand-ins, enduring whatever unpleasantness their wealthy employers wish to avoid.
Two excellent runners-up are included: David Marusek's "The Wedding Album," a story told from the point of view of holographic simulacrums who experience a virtual revolt against their flesh-and-blood progenitors; and Michael Swanwick's "Radiant Doors," set in a huge refugee camp which exists as the result of a time-war.
The anthology also includes the epilogue from Octavia E. Butler's Nebula-winning novel Parable of the Talents, an early short story from Brian W. Aldiss (who was proclaimed a Grand Master last year), and an excerpt from Daniel Keyes's Charlie, Algernon and I, his non-fiction account of how the much-celebrated novella Flowers for Algernon came to be.
The fiction in this collection is truly first-class (as one would expect). Some of the non-fiction, with the exception of Keyes's entry, is of little interest to anyone but SFWA insiders and hardcore followers.
All in all, this is an excellent continuation of the fine tradition of the Nebula Awards.
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"Cooking is not about just joining the dots, following one recipe slavishly and then moving on to the next," says British food writer Nigella Lawson. "It's about developing an understanding of food, a sense of assurance in the kitchen, about the simple desire to make yourself something to eat." Lawson is not a chef, but "an eater." She writes as if she's conversing with you while beating eggs or mincing garlic in your kitchen. She explains how to make the basics, such as roast chicken, soup stock, various sauces, cake, and ice cream. She teaches you to cook more esoteric dishes, such as grouse, white truffles (mushrooms, not chocolate), and "ham in Coca-Cola." She gives advice for entertaining over the holidays, quick cooking ("the real way to make life easier for yourself: cooking in advance"), cooking for yourself ("you don't have to belong to the drearily narcissistic learn-to-love-yourself school of thought to grasp that it might be a good thing to consider yourself worth cooking for"), and weekend lunches for six to eight people. Don't expect any concessions to health recommendations in the recipes here--Lawson makes liberal and unapologetic use of egg yolks, cream, and butter. There are plenty of recipes, but the best parts of How to Eat are the well-crafted tidbits of wisdom, such as the following:
- "Cook in advance and, if the worse comes to the worst, you can ditch it. No one but you will know that it tasted disgusting, or failed to set, or curdled or whatever."
- On the proper English trifle: "When I say proper I mean proper: lots of sponge, lots of jam, lots of custard and lots of cream. This is not a timid construction ... you don't want to end up with a trifle so upmarket it's inappropriately, posturingly elegant. A degree of vulgarity is requisite."
- "Too many people cook only when they're giving a dinner party. And it's very hard to go from zero to a hundred miles an hour. How can you learn to feel at ease around food, relaxed about cooking, if every time you go into the kitchen it's to cook at competition level?"
--Joan Price
Book Description
"A chatty, sometimes cheeky,celebration of home-cooked meals."
—USA Today
Through her wildly popular television shows, her five bestselling cookbooks, her line of kitchenware, and her frequent media appearances, Nigella Lawson has emerged as one of the food world's most seductive personalities. How to Eat is the book that started it all—Nigella's signature, all-purpose cookbook, brimming with easygoing mealtime strategies and 350 mouthwatering recipes, from a truly sublime Tarragon French Roast Chicken to a totally decadent Chocolate Raspberry Pudding Cake. Here is Nigella's total (and totally irresistible) approach to food—the book that lays bare her secrets for finding pleasure in the simple things that we cook and eat every day.
"[Nigella] brings you into her life and tells you how she thinks about food, how meals come together in her head . . . and how she cooks for family and friends . . . A breakthrough . . . with hundreds of appealing and accessible recipes."
—Amanda Hesser, The New York Times
"Nigella Lawson serves up irony and sensuality with her comforting recipes . . . the Queen of Come-On Cooking."
—Los Angeles Times
"Nigella Lawson is, whisks down, Britain's funniest and sexiest food writer, a raconteur who is delicious whether detailing every step on the way towards a heavenly roast chicken and root vegetable couscous or explaining why 'cooking is not just about joining the dots.'"
—Richard Story, Vogue magazine
Customer Reviews:
A Fun Read.......2007-07-30
Simply delightful to read, even if you don't cook a thing. However, I can't imagine not wanting to try many of the easy, scrumptious looking choices she has included. Well worth the money.
i dig her cooking and her versatility.......2007-07-23
i truly enjoy the blends and stylings of what Nigella Lawson comes out with. her use of spices and flavoring. this Book offers so many treats and makes you enjoy your meals. i like the details and overview that this book has and the insights on various dishes. I also feel and think that Nigella Lawson is one of the Most Striking and Prettest Ladies on the Planet as well. that beauty and joy comes across in her cooking and her meals with her trademark humor.
Excellent eating!!.......2007-05-07
Nigella captures what the true essence of eating is all about. Not just the cooking and the recipes but the nature of food itself. Cooking from these recipes makes me appreciate so much more what goes into the preparation of the meal. I loved it!
wonderful, simple menus...and some great ideas.......2007-01-20
This book presents some great, uncomplicated menu plans; although not all of the recipes are perfect, most of them are; though the basics, which are presented are FABULOUS!
okay .......2006-12-01
I make more savoury dishes than I do sweet ones but I don't like this book as much as How to Be a Domestic Goddess nor as much as Feast which reuses recipes from previous titles. This book is very much like her first show that aired on American tv. I agree with many of her conclusions about ingredients and methods and eating style but I can understand why some reviewers gave this book the lowest rating. I'm happy I own a paperback secondhand (a dollar cheaper than a hardcover secondhand) but although I like this book for myself I would not feel comfortable recommending this title over Feast to anyone. If there is one recipe that works for me, it would be the not uncommon recipe for salmon fishcakes that allows me to use leftover salmon. I hate to waste salmon especially knowing that we may not have any more wild fish to enjoy in a few decades. This is a title that I would suggest to be scanned in a bookstore before buying rather than relying on reviews.
Book Description
"The great British Culinary Renaissance has done many things — given us extra virgin oil, better restaurants and gastroporn — but it hasn't taught us how to cook."
—Nigella Lawson
How To Eat is a book that does. Firmly rooted in home cooking, part culinary manifesto and part evocation of the pleasures of eating, it has over three hundred and fifty recipes. More than that, it encourages us to see cooking in context and to acquire our own individual sense of what food is about. It covers kitchen basics, fast food, feeding small children, cooking for one and two, weekend lunches, low-fat food and both everyday and more demanding dinners. To counteract the chaos of modern life, it helps us plot menus, and gives kitchen survival strategies and tactical advice on cooking in advance and last-minute eating.At its heart,
How To Eat is about a feeling for food, a book to be read as well as from which to cook. Unique, invaluable, comprehensive, this is a celebration of good food and an engagingly conversational vade-mecum for the kitchen.
Customer Reviews:
A groovy new take on classic kitchen tricks!.......2004-01-12
Ms. Lawson's seductive nature transfers beautifully to the page in this unusual, yet utilitarian cookbook. Classic, homey dishes are given a new 21st. century spin without losing their basic, innate goodness. The "unpesto" is a favorite of mine, and I am wating asparagus season with much anticipation! Damn the calories, full feed ahead!!!
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