Watching Others Cook
Collins, Kathleen. (2009). Watching What We Eat: the evolution of television cooking shows. New York: Continuum. ISBN: 0-8264-2930-0 I’ve learned so much about food and cooking from watching cooking shows on television. As a teenager I would watch and long to be able to make the kinds of recipes being shown; dreamed of having a [...]
The Morning After
The Blizzard
Garden Dreams of Philadelphia
White, Sharon. (2008). Vanished Gardens: Finding Nature in Philadelphia. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press. ISBN: 0-8203-3156-2 This book was a great find, especially great for winter reading during the recent snow storm. The book combines a discussion of plants that grow in the city with city history. But the book is not nearly as dry as that [...]
Putting Your Life On a Green Diet
Uliano, Sophie. (2009). The Gorgeously Green Diet: How to Live Lean and Green. New York: Dutton. ISBN: 978-0-525-95115-5. The title implies a diet book, but it is much more than the typical diet book. It has the usual suspects: eating plans, nicely exercises, allowed and not allowed foods. But the book expands the idea of [...]

