The people at Coffee House Press in Minneapolis were kind enough to send me a copy of Leaving the Atocha Station so that I could review it here. Coffee House Press is a non-profit book publisher so I was very grateful. The book was not an easy read and I was equally grateful for the […]
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Book Review: Leaving the Atocha Station
October 11, 2011 – 9:35 am
Put’em Up Book Review & Giveaway + a Recipe for Salsa Verde
August 19, 2011 – 8:12 pm
This, my dear friends, is the papery husk of a tomatillo. A tomatillo is a fruit much like a tomato and they are a staple of Latin American cuisine. I think they are just beautiful. I used the tomatillos today to make this: The tomatillo husk itself is much nicer to look at, but don’t […]
Book Review and Giveaway- The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
September 12, 2010 – 2:01 pm
Algonquin Books were generous enough to send me a copy of The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elizabeth Tova Bailey, a bedridden observer of nature who is given a snail in a pot of violets and decides to keep it as a pet. The illness that Bailey experiences makes it extremely difficult for […]