Take time out of your festive schedule to make a beef stew that will reward you with enough flavour to inspire a masterpiece of modernism
By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network
Thursday, December 31, 2015
Food in books: boeuf en daube from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Watermelon and Prawn Salad
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The Subversively Comical Adult Coloring Books Of The Early 1960s
artsjournal:
“‘This is my suit. Color it gray or I will lose my job,’ reads a caption next to a picture of a man getting dressed for work” in 1961’s Executive Coloring Book. “The coloring books that followed managed to cover, between them, a selection of the decade’s neuroses: national security, the red scare, technology, sex, mental illness. … There were coloring books that made fun of communists and coloring books that made fun of people who were scared of communists.”
I Rediscovered Reading This Year And Read A LOT Of Books. Here’s What I Learned
artsjournal:
“Finishing every book you start is not just annoying — it’s counter-productive. There will never ever be enough time to read every worthwhile book. Even spending almost every spare second reading, there were titles I returned to the library, spines woefully uncracked.”
Books of the year
Publishers Lunch
USA Today named Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins as their "author of the year." They write: "Before 2015, no one had heard of Hawkins, 43, who previously wrote chick lit under the pseudonym Amy Silver. Then Train hurtled into bookstores on Jan. 13 and immediately clicked with readers desperate for the next Gone Girl." Riverhead has sold over 4 million units in the US.
But it wasn't one of their reviewers top books; On Wednesday, USA Today added their top 10 books of the year. It only results in minor positional changes on our aggregated and now completely final and updated list of the Absolutely Best of the Best Books of 2015.
Meanwhile, the listmakers have moved on to previews of 2016, which are mostly aggregations of forthcoming titles from well-known fiction writers. Among the latest are pieces from the NYT, the Washington Post, and EW.
On Queen Elizabeth's annual New Year's honors list, literary agent Ed Victor was named a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), for "services to literature."
The Costco Pennie's Pick for January is Ruth Wariner's memoir, The Sound of Gravel (already an Indie Next selection as well). And the Target Book Club pick for the month is Island Of A Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera.
USA Today named Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins as their "author of the year." They write: "Before 2015, no one had heard of Hawkins, 43, who previously wrote chick lit under the pseudonym Amy Silver. Then Train hurtled into bookstores on Jan. 13 and immediately clicked with readers desperate for the next Gone Girl." Riverhead has sold over 4 million units in the US.
But it wasn't one of their reviewers top books; On Wednesday, USA Today added their top 10 books of the year. It only results in minor positional changes on our aggregated and now completely final and updated list of the Absolutely Best of the Best Books of 2015.
Meanwhile, the listmakers have moved on to previews of 2016, which are mostly aggregations of forthcoming titles from well-known fiction writers. Among the latest are pieces from the NYT, the Washington Post, and EW.
On Queen Elizabeth's annual New Year's honors list, literary agent Ed Victor was named a CBE (Commander of the British Empire), for "services to literature."
The Costco Pennie's Pick for January is Ruth Wariner's memoir, The Sound of Gravel (already an Indie Next selection as well). And the Target Book Club pick for the month is Island Of A Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera.
Eat Your Books
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
Mint Pesto
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Just two sleeps to go...
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The Best of the Best Cookbooks of 2015
The Best of the
Best Cookbooks of 2015 are now listed on Eat Your Books. More than
250 lists of the best food and drink books were combined into one mega
list.
The most popular cookbook around the globe was Nopi by Yotam
Ottolenghi and Ramael Scully. This is the 4th time Ottolenghi
has had the most popular cookbook in the world.
Check out
the list to see if your own favorites made the top 10. We also have
country lists from the UK/Ireland, Canada and Australia/New Zealand as well as
subject charts for vegetarian & vegan, gluten-free & paleo, food
writing and drinks. In addition to the lists we assembled from newspapers,
magazines, websites and blogs, we also collected lists from specialist
cookbook stores around the world – interesting to see the differences. We
included your list in 2013 but I didn’t see a list from you this year. If you
have done one, please send me the link and I will add it in.
If you
haven’t yet checked out Eat Your Books, why not do a test run with a few of
your cookbooks? Once you have a search engine for the recipes in your
cookbooks, you’ll be amazed how much more you use them. Use the code 15TRIAL60
for a free 60 day trial.
Best wishes
for a wonderful 2016
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Monday, December 21, 2015
Best-ever roast pork crackling and more!
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A Visit to Jacques Genin Chocolate Shop in Paris
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Friday, December 18, 2015
Pretzel Bites
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Bakers and
pastry chefs crave two things: Salt and vinegar. When I worked in
the restaurant business and got home way after midnight, too-often I’d
park myself in front of the television, put my dogs up, and dig into a
bag of tortilla chips along with a big jar of spicy salsa. Of course, I
was half the age I am now and a bag of chips is no longer something I
can, or should, polish off by myself – or call a meal. Someone I knew
worked for one of those national diet centers and on day #1, he would
put a bag of potato chips into a food processor, run it for a few
minutes, then show everyone the oily sludge.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
In the countdown to Christmas dishes, drinks and desserts
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