Great post; I'd not heard of any of the books you'd mentioned but they sound intriguing. As for reading, I just got notice from my library that the book I'd reserved, Zingerman's Bakehouse Celebrates Every Day, has come in, so I'm going to go over to pick it up later today. (I live in Michigan, so I've been to Zingerman's many times). And as for baking, I'm going to make my mother-n-law's recipe for nut rolls (Slovak), but instead of the traditional ground walnut filling, this time I'm going to try an almond filling. Will freeze to have on hand when our daughter comes to our house for Christmas, and will also give some to neighbors.
Thanks for sharing your kitchen memories. I have very few of cooking/baking with my mom, because I’m the one who loves to be in the kitchen with a project - not my mother - even now. I crave solitary kitchen time daily and maybe that won’t benefit my daughter, who hasn’t wanted to get her hands furry by kneading bread or pasta dough by my side. My TBR list has several titles that you’ve mentioned in this post. So many books, not enough time! 😊
Live your audience drawing. How sweet! Am curious about your hermit cookies. Neither link takes one to them. I grew up with hermit cookies for Christmas, but don’t have the recipe. And don’t know why they were called that.
On your rec, I just started Monsters - thanks!
Sure thing! Hope you liked it as much as I did.
1989 book by Bill Bryson The Lost Continent ( Travels in Small Town America) wickedly funny especially his road trip food stories.
Great post; I'd not heard of any of the books you'd mentioned but they sound intriguing. As for reading, I just got notice from my library that the book I'd reserved, Zingerman's Bakehouse Celebrates Every Day, has come in, so I'm going to go over to pick it up later today. (I live in Michigan, so I've been to Zingerman's many times). And as for baking, I'm going to make my mother-n-law's recipe for nut rolls (Slovak), but instead of the traditional ground walnut filling, this time I'm going to try an almond filling. Will freeze to have on hand when our daughter comes to our house for Christmas, and will also give some to neighbors.
Thanks for sharing your kitchen memories. I have very few of cooking/baking with my mom, because I’m the one who loves to be in the kitchen with a project - not my mother - even now. I crave solitary kitchen time daily and maybe that won’t benefit my daughter, who hasn’t wanted to get her hands furry by kneading bread or pasta dough by my side. My TBR list has several titles that you’ve mentioned in this post. So many books, not enough time! 😊
Thanks Amy! Glad you enjoyed the bread chapter of The Lost Supper. You're definitely one of my ideal readers!!
Live your audience drawing. How sweet! Am curious about your hermit cookies. Neither link takes one to them. I grew up with hermit cookies for Christmas, but don’t have the recipe. And don’t know why they were called that.
Love. Though live is good too.
Thanks Nancy -- the recipes are at the bottom of the posts.
Hi Amy,
My browser might be playing tricks on me, but the Glo Bars recipe appears in the post “Passages.” That is the link you gave for the Hermits though.
The link you gave for the Glo Bars takes one to the post “Innovating Traditions.” There is no recipe in that post, for Glo Bars or Hermits.
Thank you for finding that and sorry for the mistake! Corrected now.
Wonderful! The hermit recipe seems similar to what I remember from my childhood, though we made them as drop cookies. Can’t wait to try. Thanks, Amy.