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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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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, [...]

My Favorite Reads: A Culinary Mystery

The Cooking School Murders
Virginia Rich
E. P. Dutton, 1982
Rating: A
Are you a cozy-mystery lover? Do you like that cozy-mystery mixed with talk of food? There are plenty of books available now that fill both of those qualifications. One of my favorites is from the early 1980’s. It’s The Cooking School Murders by Virginia Rich. For me, [...]

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 [...]

The Spice of Life Challenge

Rebecca of Rebecca Reads is sponsoring The Spice of Life Challenge. The goal of this Spice of challenge is to read and review books about food and eating our way through a good life. It will run from July 1, 2009 until December 31, 2009
There are four categories of food books:

Cookbooks
Nonfiction books
Memoirs, autobiographies, or essays
Fiction

Participants [...]

Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It

Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It and Other Cooking Projects
by Karen Solomon
Ten Speed Press, 2009
A

Back in the ‘olden days’ when we were back-to-the-landers I did a ton of preserving food. I canned tomatoes, green beans and peaches, froze corn, apples and shredded zucchini, made jams and pickles and sauerkraut. It was a lot of work [...]