In case anyone is looking for holiday gift ideas, for oneself or others, I have assembled a brief rundown of my very favorite food literature. (When writing it up I realized that about five of my all-time favorite works of food writing were in the Time-Life Food of the World series; I’ll do a separate post on those later.) Every one can be read ( Read more... )

Laurie Colwin's two books of essays with recipes, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking, are on the small shelf of Rachel's Favorite Food Writing. But great love for an author's nonfiction does not necessarily translate to great love, or even any love, for her fiction, so I was a little dubious about A Big Storm Knocked it Over-- especially since it's ( Read more... )