Tag: cooking

• Baking for Bookworms: Shirley Temples from Charlotte au Chocolat by Charlotte Silver

  June 5, 2015

  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…

• Baking for Bookworms: Fried Potatoes from Baroness Orczy’s The Scarlet Pimpernel

  January 30, 2015

  Baking for Bookworms

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  Every once in a while there’s a book that’ll leave a bad taste in your mouth. I was really eager to read The Scarlet Pimpernel, as it’s a book that many people regard as classic historical fiction, which happens to be one of my favorite genres. I already knew the general story line, and wanted to…

• Baking for Bookworms: Hamburgers from Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary

  December 9, 2014

  Baking for Bookworms

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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…

• Baking for Bookworms: Rice Pudding from Neil Gaiman’s Stardust

  November 22, 2014

  Baking for Bookworms

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  It may come as a surprise to people that I’ve never had rice pudding. I’m not really sure why except that no one in my family ever made it and my resistance to anything that seemed like tapioca has prevented me from trying it. But I’m 22. I’ve grown as a person. And while you…