Where living an amazing life never gets old
“The by-product of suffering, if you’re lucky, is appreciation — the savor of chance windfalls.” – from Cakewalk. Cakewalk, a memoir by Kate Moses, transports the reader on a frosted yet roughly-chopped mixture of her baked goods, sugar-filled, candy-lane life. Written with recipes purposefully hidden in the mix, Moses uses her personal ingredients to sift…
31 Bond Street is the kind of book that sucks you in from the beginning, planting you in 1857 New York, where Dr. Harvey Burdell has just been savagely killed in the middle of a stormy night and the prime suspect is his beautiful and mysterious lodger, Emma Cunningham. Based on a real incident, it’s billed as “a…
So I recently spent the afternoon with my best girlfriend. We are so alike, it’s amazing and our fashion sense is, well, impeccable. We had some wine, tried out a new ethnic restaurant, told tales of our latest adventures and laughed a lot. Oh wait, that’s not what I did, but it sure felt like…
It’s hard enough to be a single mother. It’s even harder, as Debra Monroe discovered, to be the white single mother of an African-American baby in rural Texas. Debra shares her experiences — which include often-mortifying reactions from strangers; the struggle to balance work, illness and child-rearing; and doing right by her little girl’s hair — in the powerful…
Meggan Watterson is the founder and executive director of REVEAL, a non-profit that empowers and inspires the next generation of female spiritual leadership. She has a Masters of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, and is the author and editor of the forthcoming REVEAL Generation: Voices…
After spending so much time writing about Eat Pray Love, I’m kind of shocked that I didn’t devote more space to eating. So, I’d like to introduce you to three new cookbooks which are, of course, all about desserts. Farmer’s Market Desserts by Jennie Schacht You know all those gorgeous fresh and home-grown ingredients you salivate…
The highly-anticipated big-screen adaptation of Eat Pray Love opened this past weekend with respectable — but not knock-out — box office numbers, coming in second behind the testosterone-loaded The Expendables. Why didn’t the film version of a book that ruled the New York Times Best Seller list for more than three years have a bigger impact? Maybe because not every…
“Hmm, this must be a knock-off of Eat, Pray, Love,” I thought when I received Women, Food and God. I imagined it would be a fun beach read, focusing on a woman’s escapades at cooking school over an adventurous summer in Italy or maybe France. My own longing for immersion into continental cuisine may have…
