Food & Cooking Memoirs Suggestions from the New York Public Library

Food & Cooking Memoirs Suggestions from the New York Public Library

Among Friends By Fisher, M. F. K., 1908-1992 (Paperback - 2004 ) 

Amarcord-- Marcella Remembers The Story of A Woman Who Started Out to Teach Science in A Small Town in Italy, but Ended up Teaching America How to Cook Italian By Hazan, Marcella (Book - 2008 ) 

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle A Year of Food Life By Kingsolver, Barbara (Book - 2007 ) 

  

The Apprentice My Life in the Kitchen By Pépin, Jacques (eBook - 2003 ) 

 The Art of Eating By Fisher, M. F. K., 1908-1992 (eBook - 2004 ) Annotation:Includes Serve It Forth, Consider The Oyster, How To cook A Wolf, The Gastronomical Me, and An Alphabet For Gourmets.

Between Meals An Appetite for Paris By Liebling, A. J., 1904-1963

The Sweet Science and Other Writings By Liebling, A. J., 1904-1963 Book - 2009 ) Annotation:Includes Liebling's gastronomical memoir, Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris.

Blood, Bones, & ButterThe Inadvertent Education of A Reluctant Chef By Hamilton, Gabrielle Book - 2011 ) 

Blue Plate SpecialAn Autobiography of My Appetites By Christensen, Kate, 1962- (Book - 2013 ) 

Climbing the Mango TreesA Memoir of A Childhood in India By Jaffrey, Madhur  (Book - 2006 ) 

EatingA Memoir By Epstein, Jason (Book - 2009 ) 

Garlic and Sapphires The Secret Life of A Critic in Disguise By Reichl, Ruth (Book - 2005 ) 

The Gastronomical Me By Fisher, M. F. K., 1908-1992 (Paperback - 1989 ) 

Heat An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta Maker, and Apprentice to A Dante-quoting Butcher in Tuscany By Buford, Bill(Book - 2006 ) 

A Homemade Life Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table By Wizenberg, Molly(Book - 2009 

How to Love Wine A Memoir and Manifesto By Asimov, Eric(Book - 2012 ) 

Julie and Julia My Year of Cooking Dangerously By Powell, Julie(Book - 2006 ) 

Kitchen Confidential Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly By Bourdain, Anthony(Book - 2007 ) 

The Language of Baklava By Abu-Jaber, Diana (Book - 2005 ) 

The Man Who Ate Everything And Other Gastronomic Feats, Disputes, and Pleasurable Pursuits By Steingarten, Jeffrey(Book - 1998 ) 

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking A Memoir of Love and Longing By Von Bremzen, Anya(Book - 2013 ) 

Medium Raw A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook By Bourdain, Anthony(Book - 2010 ) 

My Berlin Kitchen A Love Story, With Recipes By Weiss, Luisa(Book - 2012 ) 

My Life in France By Child, Julia(Book - 2006 ) 

RelishMy Life in the Kitchen By Knisley, Lucy(Book - 2013 ) 

Shark's Fin and Sichuan PepperA Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China By Dunlop, Fuchsia(Book - 2008 ) 

The Tenth Muse My Life in Food By Jones, Judith(Book - 2007 ) 

ToastThe Story of A Boy's Hunger By Slater, Nigel(Book - 2004 ) 

The Tummy Trilogy With A New Foreword By Trillin, Calvin(Book - 1994 ) 

Yes, ChefA Memoir By Samuelsson, Marcus(Book - 2012 ) 

Bill's Luncheonette

If you are ever out towards Ironia, you should give Bill's Luncheonette a try. I've lived in Long Valley for 17 years. My sister lives near Bill's, so I've been out there tons of times.  Can't believe this is the first time I ever ventured in. I guess it was their sign "Pumpkin pancakes are back!"  

Martha

Bill's Luncheonette - Great Breakfast!

Just had a great breakfast at Bill's Luncheonette and I want to add my recommendation to the blog.

Bill's Luncheonette
Chester Twp., NJ
North Road
on the border of Chester and Ironia.

They are serving Pumpkin Pancakes for a limited time only! (end of November, I think.)  Yummy!!!  Don't miss them!
I also enjoyed their special omelette of the day - Antonio's - filled with sausage, fried beans and cheese, colorfully presented with a generous topping of homemade fresh salsa and a side of crispy home fries.


Martha Post-Szigethy

Great Grains Cooking Class - Next Program for WTPL Cookbook Club

Cookbook Club - 

Great Grains cooking class       

Wednesday, 11/12/2014 at 7:00 PM       

Juanita Reyes, HHC, AADP, Holistic Health Coach offers a great opportunity to expand your cooking knowledge with two terrific gluten free grains. She will be hosting a cooking demonstration using millet and quinoa.  Learn how simple it can be to eat healthy.  Juanita will show you how to make main meals and a dessert using these wonderful grains.  

EVERYONE IS WELCOME!

Call the Library at 908-876-3596 

or go to www.wtpl.org to sign up for this class

Booklist's Top 10 Food Books: 2014

Top 10 Food Books: 2014.

Hooper, Brad (author).

FEATURE.  First published October 1, 2014 (Booklist).

What else can’t you live without everyday besides food? Well, okay, oxygen, but until we do a Spotlight on Oxygen, enjoy and take to heart these outstanding food-related books that were reviewed in Booklist between October 1, 2013, and September 15, 2014. 


The Art of French Pastry. By Jacquy Pfeiffer and Martha Rose Shulman. Knopf, $40 (9780307959355).

Alsation Pfeiffer, who teaches a Chicago culinary program, provides rigorously detailed instructions that transmit essential techniques for producing not only pastry itself but also custard creams, jams, fillings, sauces, icings, and glazes.


Carla’s Comfort Foods: Favorite Dishes from around the World. By Carla Hall. Atria, $29.99 (9781451662221).

Fans of Bravo’s Top Chef TV show know Hall, and what is great about her second recipe collection is her enthusiastic and knowledgeable embrace of all things spice.


Craft Beer for the Homebrewer: Recipes from America’s Top Brewmasters. By Michael Agnew. Quayside/Voyageur, paper, $24.99 (9780760344743).

The craft-beer industry has exploded in recent years, leading to a renaissance in the hobby of home brewing; here are 38 authentic recipes contributed by the craft brewmasters themselves.


Eating Dangerously: Why the Government Can’t Keep Your Food Safe . . . and How You Can. By Michael Booth and Jennifer Brown. Rowman & Littlefield, $24.95 (9781442222663).

More than a little Michael Moore–type scary is this eye-opening exposé of foods, grocery shopping, and government oversight in America, the most important part being the diagnostic and prevention section.


Egg: A Culinary Exploration of the World’s Most Versatile Ingredient.By Michael Ruhlman. Little, Brown, $40 (9780316254069).

If there is a single indispensable ingredient in cooking, it has to be the egg. Ruhlman deftly analyzes the egg’s culinary role, deconstructing it into white and yolk and cooking it by itself or combining it with other foods.


The Essential New York Times Grilling Cookbook: More Than 100 Years of Sizzling Food Writing and Recipes. Ed. by Peter Kaminsky. Sterling Epicure, $24.95 (9781402793240).

This compilation presents nearly 200 recipes from the likes of Pierre Franey and Craig Claiborne; we truly get the best of the best on grilling.


Everyday Thai Cooking: Quick and Easy Family Style Recipes. By Kate Chin. Tuttle, $24.95 (9780804843713).

Chin’s latest collection is filled with enthusiasm and energy—and what’s probably more important, it includes nearly 100 recipes with exotic ingredients that are fairly accessible.


Melt: The Art of Macaroni and Cheese. By Stephanie Stiavetti and Garrett McCord. Little, Brown, $30 (9780316213370).

Every one of the more than 80 recipes features the traditional pasta-and-cheese ingredients but with many delicious twists.


Provence, 1970: M. F. K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and Reinvention of American Taste. By Luke Barr. Clarkson Potter, $26 (9780307718341).

Much like an auspicious conjunction of heavenly planets, December 1970 found the greatest luminaries of the French-American food world gathered in one place.


Yucatan: Recipes from a Culinary Expedition. By David Sterling. Univ. of Texas, $60 (9780292735811).

This is not just a cookbook (of more than 275 recipes), it’s also a labor of love that well documents places, people, and, yes, food on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. 

Earl's Bucks County Restaurant Recommendation

Martha was in Peddler's Village, Lahaska, PA.  (GPS address: 5800 Upper York Road, New Hope,PA  18938) last week.

She enjoyed and can highly recommend the Chopped Salad and Coconut Cake from the luncheon menu at Earl's Bucks County Restaurant. Their phone # 215-794-4020.  Martha recommends having a light lunch there so that you can thoroughly enjoy the luscious Coconut Cake.The Coconut Cake comes with passion fruit creme anglaise and oven roasted pineapple.

Foraging books on display at the Washington Twp. Public Library

Come and check out the Library's new titles on foraging. They are on display near the NEW FICTION books along with the SEED LIBRARY books.


Foraging titles include:

	2014	1. Eating wildly : foraging for life, love and the perfect meal by Chin, Ava. Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Simon & Schuster, c2014. Description: 245 p. ; 21 cm. Summary: Chin, who writes the "Wild Edibles" column for the New York Times, goes looking for love, blackberries, and wild garlic in this wildly uneven, yet warmly exhilarating memoir. Trekking through Central Park and other urban beaten paths and backyards, Chin leads us on a journey of discovery as she searches for the tender shoots poking through cement cracks and hardy wild plants resisting winter's bite.
	2014	2. Northeast foraging : 120 wild and flavorful edibles from beach plums to wineberries by Meredith, Leda. Publisher, Date: Portland, Oregon : Timber Press, 2014. Description: 308 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
	2013	3. Backyard foraging : 65 familiar plants you didn't know you could eat by Zachos, Ellen. Publisher, Date: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, c2013. Description: 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
	2012	4. Foraged flavor : finding fabulous ingredients in your backyard or farmer's market by Wong, Tama Matsuoka. Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: New York : Clarkson Potter Pub., c2012. Description: 224, [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. Summary: "Now more than ever Americans want to know where their food comes from, and, foraging--once relegated to natural foods extremists--has moved into the mainstream. From food world darlings David Chang and Rene Redzepi discussing the idea of foraging in Central Park to home cooks finding purslane in their backyards or nettles at farmer's markets, the whole country is embracing this practical, delicious, back-to-the land trend, a natural extension of the locavore movement. FORAGED FLAVOR is the perfect guide for any dedicated or would-be forager, with plenty of tips for finding 100 edibles and 75 recipes for enjoying them. Tama Matsuoka Wong and Eddy Leroux are the dream team of wild food experts. Tama is the forager for Daniel and Eddy its chef de cuisine. They combine their expertise in FORAGED FLAVOR, a seasonally organized field guide and cookbook. Tama walks readers through common wild foods, describing the hidden pockets where anise hyssop grows or the best time of year to search for wild garlic. Eddy gives simple recipes for every find, including Cardamine Cress with Fennel and Orange Vinaigrette; Braised Beef with Onions and Dandelion; and Violets, Strawberries, and Creme Fraiche. With 25 botanical illustrations, 50 color photographs of foraged ingredients, and tons of field-tested know-how, FORAGED FLAVOR will be an indespensable guide for cooking enthusiasts"-- Provided by publisher.
	2010	5. Edible wild plants : wild foods from dirt to plate by Kallas, John, 1952- Edition: 1st ed. Publisher, Date: Layton, Utah : Gibbs Smith, 2010. Access Online:  Contributor biographical information Description: 416 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Next program for Food for Thought Cookbook – Forage for Your Health America

Forage for Your Health America – Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 7:00 p.m.

Topics to be covered include:

How we have lost touch with the bounty of healing foods around us. The middle class without food in the country. The health crisis- per capita cost.  Medicinal herbs that were once use used are no longer known about. The Life Lessons that should be taught so we can attain better health especially in a crisis.

How to recognize healing foods within 30’of your doorstep.  Avenues to welcome native healing plants into your garden or eat your ‘weeds’.

If Mother Nature allows, Wendy Yurgosky, Certified Holistic Health Counselor, hopes to be bringing a few fall treasures from within Long Valley to discuss where to find them and their medicinal purposes. 

Call the Library at 908-876-3596 or go to www.wtpl.org to sign up for this program!