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will read for food
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notes from a bookseller-at-large
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Of the Empire
I attended the Decatur Book Festival last month, and in the 100+ degree heat (at least, it felt like that) found myself wandering slowly around, fingering all the paper-arts and handmade leather journals but spending my money at the booths of the many small independent booksellers in the square. From...
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Sweet tea
“In the south, sweetened ice tea is taken for granted, like the idea that stock car racing is our national pastime and that the Southern Baptist chrch is a legitimate arm of the Republican Party. If you order ice tea in a restaurant, it will arrive presweetened. If you want...
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Learning to love lasagna
They say that first impressions are everything, and I think this is true of food more than most things in our lives. You can get over the fact that the first time you saw your future husband he was that total jerk drunk off his ass who threw up all...
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The Tao of Breakfast
“Why is breakfast different from all other things, so that the Greeks called it the best thing in the world, and so that each of us in a vague way knows that he would eat at breakfast nothing but one special kind of food, and that he could not imagine...
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Learning to Bake Bread
“The first time your mother ever baked a loaf of bread,” my Dad used to tell me with fondness, “it was so hard it put a hole through the drywall in our apartment.” I’ve always had a hard time believing this story, because my mother is one of those...
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