The perfect cookie : your ultimate guide to foolproof cookies, brownies & bars by America’s Test Kitchen
As someone who has had a love affair with cookies (especially the dough!) and baked them for decades, it’s hard to surprise me with any recipes I haven’t seen before. But cookbooks are just like […]
Simple Printmaking by Peter Weiss
Simple Printmaking is my “go to” book before I start any printmaking project. As a sporadic printmaker who works on their dining room table it’s helpful to be reminded that you don’t need fancy […]
Tower Dog by Douglas Scott Delaney
Anyone who knows me knows the scorn I feel for cell phones but on the other hand, I love reading about our infrastructure, whether it’s bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers or cell towers, I find the work […]
H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil by Adam Selzer
H.H. Holmes: The True History of the White City Devil provides an intriguing complement and contrast to Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City, as the author aims to uncover and convey the […]
Farm Dogs by Janet Dohner
There’s another fantastic book out from Storey Publishing and it’s Farm Dogs by Janet Dohner. Any book about farm dogs is probably going to be good but this book is divided into sections on […]
Milk Cow Kitchen by Mary Jane Butters
I do not see how anyone could flip through Mary Jane Butters’ new book Milk Cow Kitchen: “cow” girl romance, cheese recipes, farmstyle recipes, backyard cow keeping and not want to own cows – […]
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey By Frances Wilson
Despite being a school dropout, a lifelong deadbeat and drug addict, Thomas De Quincey was also an influential writer and critic ahead of his time. He was a personal friend of several of the English […]
The Shepherd’s View by James Rebanks
I encourage anyone with a rural background or a longing for the rural life to read The Shepherd’s View by James Rebanks. It’s actually a combination of reading and viewing the beautiful photographs of […]
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
Ghost stories “reveal the contours of our anxieties, the nature of our collective fears and desires, the things we can’t talk about in any other way.” What do accounts of haunting, local legends and eerie […]
Big Bad Breakfast by John Currence
If breakfast is your favorite meal, the cookbook Big Bad Breakfast by John Currence is for you. Currence owns several restaurants in Mississippi (including Big Bad Breakfast) and was on Top Chef Masters. This […]