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  • THE FLAVOR THESAURUS: MORE FLAVORS

    THE FLAVOR THESAURUS: More Flavors: Plant-Led Pairings, Recipes, and Ideas for Cooks by Niki Segnit, the plant-focused follow-up to the global 2010 bestseller and beloved cookbook/ cooking guide THE FLAVOR THESAURUS: A Compendium of Pairings, Recipes, and Ideas for Creative Cooks. THE FLAVOR THESAURUS: More Flavors just received a great review from Booklist which said, “This follow-up to Segnit’s The Flavor Thesaurus…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    January 20, 2024
    #books, #BookTok, Cookbooks
    #books, Cookbooks, Food, Food pairings, Niki Segnit, Recipes, The Flavor Thesarus: More Flavors
  • NPR: What to read in 2024: 11 books we’re looking forward to

    https://www.npr.org/2023/12/30/1221337678/what-to-read-2024

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 31, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Authors, Culture, Digital, drama, Fiction, Non-fiction
    #books, #Fiction #mystery #crime, Non-fiction
  • The Great American Recipe Cookbook: 100 Memorable Recipes to Celebrate the Diversity and Flavors of American Food Foreword by Pati Jinich

    “opens the door to what American cookery is—the coming together of cultures, identities, flavors, and tastes that celebrate what is probably one of the most diverse cuisines in the world.” This is the second edition of The Great American Recipe Cookbook, based on the popular eight-part PBS cooking show contest in which home cooks compete…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 31, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Cookbooks, Food, Food History, Recipes
    #books, Cassava Pone, Cookbooks, Croque Madame Mini Quiches and Dijon Béchamel, Ethnic, Food, Mini Spinach B’jíbín Pies, PBS, Recipes, Regional, The Great American Recipe Cookbook
  • Angela Medearis: The Ultimate Kitchen Diva

    Angela Medearis: The Ultimate Kitchen Diva

    “People are eating African American food every day, but they don’t know it,” Angela Shelf Medearis says to me when we chat on the phone. In part, she’s talking about James Hemings who, in the complicated way of slavery, trained in the culinary arts in Paris and became a noted chef de cuisine and yet…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 31, 2023
    #BookTok, 57th Street Books, Cookbooks, Food, Food History, Recipes, Soul food
    “Jerk Chicken Throwdown”, “The African-American Kitchen”, “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook”, “Throwdown with Bobby Flay”, African-American cookery, Angela Medearis, Bobby Flay, Cookbooks, Creole Chicken Stew, Food, Food Network, Jamaican Jerk Chicken, James Hemings, Kitchen Diva, Recipes, Sally Hemings, Seafood and Sweet Corn Chowder, Soul food, Thomas Jefferson
  • We Lie Here: A Return Home Leads to Toxic Family Secrets

    We Lie Here: A Return Home Leads to Toxic Family Secrets

    Nominated for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Mystery/Thriller, Rachel Howzell Hall’s We Lie Here (Thomas & Mercer) is the ultimate in twisty family secrets, murders, long standing grudges, and buried–both literally and figuratively–truths. In this book, Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of And Now She’s Gone and These Toxic Things,…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 30, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Fiction, mystery
    “And Now She’s Gone”, “These Toxic Things”, “We Lie Here”, #books, Fiction, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, Rachel Howzell Hall
  • A Sinister Revenge: A Victorian Mystery by Deanna Raybourn

    A Sinister Revenge: A Victorian Mystery by Deanna Raybourn

    Deanna Raybourn takes us back to Victorian times in “A Sinister Revenge” (Penguin Random House), the latest novel in her Veronica Speedwell series. Speedwell, a scientist, lepidopterist or butterfly collector, and lady adventurer, has traveled to Bavaria in search of Revelstoke “Stoker” Templeton-Vane (called Stoker for short), her lover and scientific partner, who understandably is…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 29, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Adventure, Murder, mystery, Romance
    “A Sinister Revenge”, “Killers of a Certain Age”, #books, Deanna Raybourn, Fiction, Margaret Fountaine, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, Northwest Indiana Times, Penguin Random House, Romance, Veronica Speedwell, Victorian mystery, Victorian-era
  • A mysterious inheritance leads to danger in Kate White’s latest book: “Between Two Strangers”

    A mysterious inheritance leads to danger in Kate White’s latest book: “Between Two Strangers”

    For the last 12 years, Skyler Moore has struggled with a crippling sense of guilt and an inability to be around large groups. An artist who specializes in collages, her work is about to be displayed in a prestigious art gallery and, hopefully, it will help her shaky finances as she wants to become pregnant…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    December 19, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Fiction, mystery
    “Between Two Strangers”, #books, Fiction, Kate White, mystery, Mystery-Thriller
  • Book: “Anywhere You Run” by Wanda M. Morris

    Book: “Anywhere You Run” by Wanda M. Morris

    “When I turned 18, the first thing my mother told me is to go register to vote,” says Wanda M. Morris, whose latest mystery “Anywhere You Run,” tells the story of two sisters who are caught up in the tumultuous 1960s when Civil Rights workers were trying to help Blacks in the deep south exercise…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 27, 2023
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  • Book: “What Never Happened” by Award Winning Mystery Writer Rachel Howzell Hall

    Book: “What Never Happened” by Award Winning Mystery Writer Rachel Howzell Hall

    Twenty years ago, Colette “Coco” Weber survived the mass murder of her father, mother, and brother on idyllic Catalina Island off the coast of California. The man accused of the murder is now in prison and Coco, who moved away, married, and is now separated from her husband, has returned to the island hoping to…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 27, 2023
    #books, #BookTok, Amazon, Fiction, mystery
    “What Never Happened”, #books, Catalina Island, Fiction, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, Rachel Howzell Hall
  • Esquire: The Best Books of Fall 2023

    https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g45337255/best-books-fall-2023/

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 26, 2023
    Uncategorized
    #books
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