Category: Baking for Bookworms
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Charlotte Silver’s memoir has an extremely close relationship to food because it is the memoir of her childhood spent at her mother’s restaurant in Boston. She was, in fact, named after the French dessert Charlotte au Chocolat. Her favorite drink as a child was a Shirley Temple, and while as an adult she lost her…
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There were a lot of interesting, traditional British dishes to choose from in this book, but since Sarah, the protagonist, had particularly lurid memories of sponge cakes, I thought I would share a traditional sponge cake with you. The book is filled with food because it primarily takes place in the servants’ domain, and the…
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There’s not too much mention of food in Malala Yousafzai’s autobiography, except in passing. For the most part, foods are either associated with the familiar smells and tastes of Pakistan, or they are associated with the alienness of England. This breakfast though is mentioned twice, first in Pakistan and then in England as a way…
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I didn’t know very much about Zelda Fitzgerald before reading this book (and obviously this was fiction, though well-researched, so there’s still a lot I don’t know about her), but I felt afterwards that I understood her more, and I understood how difficult life had been for her. I’m sorry to say I’d never really…
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Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Today’s post makes a great breakfast (or dinner) for the one you love. There’s something about pancakes that speaks to home and care. (You can scroll down for my earlier post about this book) There’s not a lot of food mentioned in the novel. Pancakes and grilled cheese sandwiches are the…
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I’ve already talked a little about this book in my last post, but today we’re focused on food. I may or may not have said that I wouldn’t be cooking from non-fiction about food, but if I did so, I lied. I read a lot of cooking memoirs and they have really delightful recipe ideas…
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If you have not read the Pulitzer Prize winning book, you really ought to do so. Donna Tartt’s novel is not a recent read for me, as I read it over a year ago, but it was a book that stayed with me. It is not a plot heavy novel, but the rich language negates…
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I believe this is the first non-fiction book on Baking for Bookworms. As you may or may not know (probably not unless you have some sort of amazing access to my head), any book is fair game for this feature unless it’s a cookbook. Even non-fiction about food is acceptable. Even short story anthologies are…
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Sorry for not getting this up on Friday. I was going to make this for dinner, but I finished the first draft of my novel, and we went out to celebrate instead (by the way, if you’re ever in Eugene, Oregon and looking for Italian food, Beppe and Gianni’s Trattoria has this roasted garlic appetizer…
Allison Burris 