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Hi! My name is Margot. My blog is about the things I love to do. That could be what I'm reading, places we visit, my family, food, or whatever else is happening. I hope you'll stay and visit a while. Contact me by email: margot (DOT) peck (AT) gmail (DOT) com.

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Lonely Hearts Club

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Are You Looking For A Good Place To Eat?

Getting recommendations for good places to eat is something all good foodies love to do. Jane and Michael Stern have been recommending such places for over thirty years. They have written numerous books on the subject, have a weekly spot on American Public Radio’s Splendid Table, a column in Gourmet Magazine, and an excellent website. [...]

I’m Still Thinking About Soup

I guess you could say we are on a soup roll. Wednesday we had the first nice sunny day we’ve had in weeks. We got outdoors and decided to go to the library, out to eat, and run some errands. So, at the library I found this great book on soups and when we went [...]

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters

Alice Waters is the cebrated owner of Chez Panisse, an internationally known restaurant in Berkeley, California and the author of numerous cookbooks. Ms. Waters is also well known for being a big part of the food revolution of the last several decades. Her attitude toward food and cooking steered us back from the trend of [...]

A Food Book: Home Cooking

HOME COOKING: A WRITER IN THE KITCHEN
Laurie Colwin
Perennial/Harper Collins, 1988
My Rating: A+

“One of the delights of life is eating with friends; second to that is TALKING about eating. And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating WHILE you are eating with friends. People who like to cook like to talk about food. [...]

Book Review: The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook

by Nadia Natali
Illustrated by Marica Natali Thompson
North Atlantic Books, 2009
My Rating: B
In addition to recipes, The Blue Heron Ranch Cookbook is a story about the creation of the Blue Heron Ranch and Zen Retreat Center. It’s the story of how the Natali family bought forty acres near Ojai, California and built it into a meditation [...]

Book Review: The Recipe Club

The Recipe Club: A Tale of Food and Friendship
by Andrea Israel and Nancy Garfinkel
Recipes in collaboration with Melissa Clark
Polhemus Press, 2009
My Rating: B+
I’m calling this book a food novel about two friends Valerie and Lilly. They’ve been friends since childhood. As young girls they created a club-for-two in which they exchanged recipes, hence the name, [...]

Book Review: American Food Writing

American Food Writing
Edited by Molly O’Neill
Library of America, 2007
Rating: A

I was lucky enough to get this book from my daughter Candice and her husband Mark last Spring. I have been tasting it, a few pages at a time, ever since. It’s the perfect book for readers who love first class food writing. That’s me.

The book [...]