Carole’s Creamy Scone Spread

Funny how a thread on a forum can get you thinking. Years ago I made a recipe from Southern Living Annual Recipes 1997 for Cream Scones - http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/cream-scones-10000000257797/ and it was wonderful.  So good in fact that I make them on a regular basis.  I have a post-it note in that annual cookbook sticking up …

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The Book Club Cookbook

Recipes and Food for Thought from Your Book Club’s Favorite Books and Authors This wonderful book contains chapters on 100 bestselling books, mostly novels, some I have actually read.   The introduction is quite interesting, giving the rationale behind the choice of books to include.  Popularity for discussion with book clubs, and ability to provoke discussion …

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Best Food Writing Anthologies

Food Writing, or foodie books, is a relatively new genre compared to other genres in publishing.  Columnists have been regaling us with stories of food preparation foibles, family memories, and reflections on food related stories since the advent of food magazines in the 1940s, but didn’t gain prominence until the 1990s.   My interest in …

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