WYNC/New York, New York
Once again, I really enjoyed my conversation this morning on WYNC’s Brian Lehrer show–and it didn’t hurt to find out that even Brian Lehrer has a picky eater kid (or that his son, age 12, will now eat asparagus even if he hates to admit he likes it. Perhaps there’s hope for The Cheese-Hater after [...]
Friday Food Writers: Anthony Doerr
Four Seasons in Rome is novelist Anthony Doerr’s account of the year he spent in Rome (on a Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy–jealous, anyone?) with his wife and twin baby boys, trying to write a book, trying to learn Italian, and often, trying to figure out how to get food for his growing [...]
Friday Food Writers: Julia Child and Avis DeVoto
I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of a fantastic new book of letters between Julia Child and Avis DeVoto, the friend and editor who was responsible for shepherding Mastering the Art of French Cooking to a publisher. The two women met when Julia (in what I like to think of as a [...]
Publication date is here!
Today is the day Eating for Beginners officially makes its way into the world! True, it’s already been for sale online for a few weeks, and someone reported seeing an actual copy in an actual bookstore yesterday, too, but still. Pub dates are momentous occasions in the life of a writer, so thank you all [...]
The first critics have spoken!!
I’m not including an image with this post in order to leave space for the HUGE sigh of relief that accompanies this news. The first review of Eating for Beginners is just out and I couldn’t be more thrilled. It’s from Publisher’s Weekly, which says, among other things, that the book is “lowkey, generous and [...]
Urban farming, French style
As if there wasn’t enough to love about Paris already, this past weekend a group of farmers set up mini-farms all down the Champs-Elysees, transforming the grand boulevard into a gorgeous and (they hope) educational agricultural wonderland. The photos I saw in the New York Times were captivating, and I bet there a ton more [...]
Friday Food Writers: Emily Dickinson
I’m on a little Emily tear after reading a new biography of her by Lyndall Gordon. And while I don’t normally think of her as a food person, she did love to garden and bake. At the Folger Library in Washington, D.C. they have a celebration of her birthday every year where her black cake [...]
A propos of nothing but the NYPL and a good laugh
This is totally not food or EFB-related, but it’s still cracking me up several days later, so I can’t resist posting this video made in support of the New York Public Library, which is being threatened with $37 million dollars in cuts. The NYPL happens to be very close to my heart as both a [...]
Book trailer and a confession
Here I am! And here , much to my shock/embarrassment/amazement/delight/bevy of other conflicting emotions, is the book video for EFB, which was filmed in my kitchen about six weeks ago and which will tell you a little bit more about EFB (and my taste in kitchen utensils). You can watch me cook with copious amounts [...]
Friday Food Writers: MFK Fisher
MFK Fisher is a giant among food writers, known for her wit, her clarity of style, her acerbic wonderfulness. It’s almost impossible to choose from her many books and essays, but today I give you a little excerpt from a 1971 piece called “Grandmother’s Nervous Stomach,” in which she discusses the poverty of her grandmother’s [...]
