I've decided to stop posting book reviews here and to return to my focus on gardening and food (and some other things, no doubt, from ti...

Ever since reading Child of the Morning,  Pauline Gedge's 1976 novel about Hatshepsut, Egypt's remarkable and mysterious eighteent...

So far I've made two recipes from Rebecca Katz and Mat Edelson's The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Func...

Where to begin to describe the wonderful book that  The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook: Artisanal Breads from Around the World  by Jessamyn ...

In "The Gap of Time," Jeanette Winterson composes a "cover version" of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tal...

I just finished reading Nina George's The Little Paris Book Shop, and I am so pleased that what I thought might be at best a mild and pl...

First, if you'll indulge me, a bit of a rant: I absolutely cannot understand people who don't appreciate leftovers. I don't eve...