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Naomi Benaron’s Running the Rift takes place in Rwanda and a lot of the staple foods were unfamiliar to me, with the exception of a few vegetables. All of the food sounded delicious, and I took to the internet to look some of it up. Isombe is a stew made of cassava leaves, fresh vegetables, peanuts and peanut [...]
Food in books usually serves a purpose greater than just the delight of my food loving heart. What people eat and how they react to it gives insight into their socio-economic status, tastes and preferences and character. In The Beginner, by Rebecca Wolff, Ginger’s mother has a view of food the informs the way you [...]
I always feel like I have hit the jackpot when a character in a book is a chef. Yummy things are usually in store, and that is definitely the case in The First Husband by Laura Dave, due out next week. The novel is a delightful read, all about trying to figure life out in [...]
Picky eater that I was growing up, it took me years to figure out that I liked sauces and I that I actually liked them over food instead of meticulously separated out and consigned to Siberia on my plate. The chances of me ordering something these days goes up immensely is it comes with a [...]
I wanted to do an interview one of the authors of the books competing in the upcoming Nerds Heart YA Tournament which was created last year as a YA to find and publicize underrepresented writers in YA. I was a judge last year and passed the winning book onto the final round. Tis year I [...]
I have never been a huge fan of either chocolate or coffee, but there are some things that I hear about that fall under the category of exception. Molten chocolate cakes fall into this category – I never met one that I didn’t like and devour after telling myself that I would only eat half. [...]
Mexican food is probably one of my favorite things to eat. It’s simple and relatively easy to make a healthy meal from the common ingredients in Mexican fare. Somehow when I have Mexican food, it rarely turns out to be as healthy as I would like it to be. Instead of a baked tortillas, I [...]
Italy will always be a special place here at Linus’s Blanket because that is pretty much where it got its birth as a book blog. Before that it was an all-purpose/keep up with friends type venture. I started posting reviews of books that I was reading as I was vacationing in Italy and I never [...]
Beautiful Creatures, by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl is a chunkster of a book, but I was drawn into each and every page, and enjoyed every minute of it. As you might have expected, knowing me, that also means that there was plenty of food for me to feast my imagination upon. I would love [...]
It’s rare that I will read acknowledgements in a book. Most times I feel a little guilty about not reading about all the people who went into the monumental task of creating the book, but I figure that they’re not really there for me anyway and I move on. I did read them in Shiver, [...]
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