One breezy Chicago summer, my brother and I built a treehouse. Wait! You don’t need that intro again. You don’t need to hear me wax poetic about books in the trees, or Jo March, or the Bobbsey Twin’s Luau. You just need to know that today we’re revisiting Great Reads for Culinary Kids, and that [...]
Posted in Chicagoland, books on Sep 25th, 2009
One breezy Chicago summer, my brother and I built a treehouse. Isn’t that nice? But before my mother objects, let’s rephrase: one sweaty Chicago summer, my brother and I nearly killed each other nailing two boards into a tree. We pounded rows of crooked nails into little boards for steps, and as high as we [...]
Posted in cookies, culinary school, recipes on Aug 24th, 2008
At the library the other day, Josie and I browsed and then made our way to the counter, where Greg was checking out. But when we got there, he wasn’t done yet; both he and the library clerk were listening to a tiny machine crank out a yellow tape – ph-chtt-ph-chtt-ph-chtt. Greg looked at us. [...]
Are you, or any breathless young girl you know, familiar with the Twilight books? My daughter is obsessed with Stephenie Meyer’s wildly successful teen – romance – vampire series, and I must be way off the buzz wagon, because until I smacked into a towering, goth-flavored display at Borders, I’d never even heard of them. [...]
In 1907 the author Carolyn Wells wrote Marjorie’s Vacation, in which a high-spirited girl rides a train and summers at her grandmother’s well-appointed country house. The book was part of a Marjorie series, and though I don’t know who loved them in 1907, I know at least one edition passed seven decades’ worth of readers [...]
