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  • Recipes from Tara Teaspoon’s Delicious Gatherings

    I love cookbooks, whether they’re old or new and I’m always looking for those that offer recipes for what’s available from local farms and also using ingredients that I want to learn more about. And my friend Carrie Bachman sent me a cookbook that covers both. It’s by Tara “Teaspoon” Bench, a former Martha Stewart…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 30, 2022
    Uncategorized
  • Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog, the Making of a Super Athlete

    Tales of Al: The Water Rescue Dog, the Making of a Super Athlete

    With her golden eyes and short brown coat, Al is unlike most Newfoundland dogs not only in color. She’s also bigger than a bear cub at an equivalent age and able to pull two to three times her weight. Al is also exuberant, intelligent, and eager to please. But in her overwhelming enthusiasm, Al doesn’t…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 26, 2022
    Canines, Uncategorized
    "Tales of Al", Canines, Dogs, International Swimming Hall of Fame, Italian School of Rescue Dogs, Labradors, Lynne Cox, Newfoundlands
  • NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: ONCE AGAIN, BOOK TV IS LIVE, IN-PERSON

    NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: ONCE AGAIN, BOOK TV IS LIVE, IN-PERSON

    22nd-STRAIGHT YEAR: EXCLUSIVE NON-FICTION BOOK COVERAGEON BOOK TV ON C-SPAN2 C-SPAN’s Book TV has provided live, in-depth, uninterrupted coverage of the National Book Festival since it began.  Now, after several years of virtual coverage because of the pandemic, Book TV is back in person, once again providing signature LIVE gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Festival’s non-fiction authors.…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 19, 2022
    #books
    #books, Autobiographies, Biographies, C-Span, C-Span's Book TV, Fiction, Library of Congress, Memoirs, Mystery-Thriller, National Book Festival, Non-fiction
  • Back From the Farm: Family Recipes and Memories of a Lifetime

    Back From the Farm: Family Recipes and Memories of a Lifetime

    Family memories, times together, food, family, and friends–all come together in Phil Potempa’s newest cookbook.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    August 9, 2022
    Cookbooks, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Recipes
    "Back From the Farm", Cookbooks, Food, North Judson Mint Festival, Phil Potempa, Phyllis Diller, Recipes, {hil Potempa
  • Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy by Jamie Oliver

    Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy  by Jamie Oliver

    Noted chef Jamie Oliver has introduced a cookbook full of recipes for making memorable meals easily.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    July 13, 2022
    Audio book, Chefs, Cookbooks, English, Family, Food, Recipes, Uncategorized
    #books, "Together: Memorable Meals Made Easy", Bacon, Burgundy, Button Mushrooms & Shallots, Chicken, Chocolate Semifredd, Cookbooks, Food, Jamie Oliver, loody Mary Crumpets, My Maple Old Fashioned, Recipes, Sausage & Bacon Puff Pie, Taco Parthy, Tangerine Dream Cake, Tequila Michelasa, Wimbledon Summer Pudding
  • A Terrified Puppy and a Life Re-Examined: The Lessons Love Teaches Us

    A Terrified Puppy and a Life Re-Examined: The Lessons Love Teaches Us

    A very anxious dog teaches a couple how love stretches our capacity for compassion and caring.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 30, 2022
    Animals, Anxiety, Audiobooks, Dogs, Memoir, Non-fiction, Pets
    "Loving Edie", Anxiety, Audiobooks, Dogs, janeammeson.com, Memoir, Meredith May, Non-fiction, Park Row Books, Pets
  • From Crook to Cook: Snoop Dogg Hits the Kitchen

    From Crook to Cook: Snoop Dogg Hits the Kitchen

    Whether he’s in the hood or in an international city, Snoop Dogg says he’s got to eat and over three decades of performing around the globe, the famous rapper has learned to adapt dishes from what he grew up eating as well as recipes he’s discovered on the road. He shares these in his cookbook,…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 29, 2022
    Cookbooks, Recipes
    "From Crook to Cook", "Martha and Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party", cookbook, Recipes, Snoop Dogg
  • Traveling Through Time and Around the Globe

    Traveling Through Time and Around the Globe

    The quote from Jean Batton, an early female aviator was the inspiration for Maggie Shipstead to write “Great Circle” about a female aviatrix who disappears in Antarctica in the last century and a modern day movie being made about her.

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 29, 2022
    Adventure, Epic Adventure, Fiction, History
    "Great Circle", Aviator Jean Batton, Fiction, Flight, History, Maggie Shipstead, Northwest Indiana Times, Women aviators
  • Celebrate with Babs: The TikTok Grandma’s New Cookbook

    Celebrate with Babs: The TikTok Grandma’s New Cookbook

                  Barbara Costello didn’t do social media when she first helped her daughter by posting a cooking video on TikTok.               “I thought TikTok was all about dancing,” says Costello, the mother of four and grandmother of eight, who is known as Grandma Babs. Her first post was in April 2020 during the pandemic. Nine…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 22, 2022
    #books, Cookbooks, Family, Food, Recipes
    Brunch with Babs, Celebrate with Babs, Cookbooks, Food, Greek Chicken, Holiday cooking, Liz Ariola, Mrs. Nipple, Recipes, Smash Cake, TikTok Grandma
  • Book Riot: Barnes and Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far

    Book Riot: Barnes and Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far

    Book Riot: Barnes & Noble Announces Their Best Books of 2022 So Far. https://bookriot.com/barnes-noble-best-books-of-2022-so-far/ The Top Ten Books So Far

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    June 8, 2022
    #books, Fiction, Supernatural
    #books, A.F. Steadman, Alice Oseman, Bonnie Garmus, Book Lovers, Book of Night, Book Riot, Colleen Hoover, Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Emily Henry, Emily St. John Mandel, Fiction, Hanya Yanagihara, Heartstopper, Holly Black, Humor, I Will Die in a Foreign Land, Isabel Canas, It Ends with Us, Jennifer Egan, Kalani Pickhart, Lessons in Chemistry, New York Times bestseller, Sea of Tranquility, Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, Sue Lynn Tan, The Candy House, The hacienda, To Paradise, Top Ten Books So Far 2022
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