Books
I am now the proud owner of one of the most valuable cookbooks known to the foodie crowd. Nourishing Traditions is a book that defies convention and steps way outside the box when it comes to the vast majority of our cooking habits. And while I may not agree with Sally Fallon 100% I do [...]
When the warm weather rolls around I tend to leave behind my heavy winter reading and take up some ‘lighter’ material. I toss a book in with the picnic basket and catch a couple chapters here and there while the kids play on the beach or at the park. It’s too hard to read non-fiction [...]
It would appear that I am not doing a very good job of including you in on my reading list. Sorry about that. I forgot. I have been updating my sidebar but forget to copy those little tidbits into a post later. Here are some of the things I’ve read over the winter.
Since moving into my lovely new house I have polished off several of the books that I was reading over the summer. A Recipe for Bees was an interesting novel that turned out to be set in Chase/Kamloops and Victoria. Coupled with a bunch of homesteading and beekeeping lore it goes without saying that beyond [...]
I love cheese. There is nothing as good in the world as potatoes covered in parsley, butter and cheese. And as of last week I can make all of the above happen in the space of my backyard. Life does not get much better than that. Had I known how easy it was to make [...]
This is an excerpt from a very good book that anyone who cares about their food ought to give a read: “Can you think of any sector of our culture that promotes its wares with a slogan like ‘we pile it high and sell it cheap’? Any other sector of our economy would commit suicide [...]
Krystal Williams
Beautiful B.C.
Day Dreamer & Margin Doodler
