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Book Review: Haven

Shepherd’s fourth and final book of the A Trial of Blood and Steel series does an excellent job of wrapping up an intense political and moral fantasy epic. Filled with ambiguity and battles ranging from all out warfare to one-on-one [...]

Posted On : Jun, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook Review: Heavy Metal Mosh Potatoes + An Alice Cooper...

There are those cookbooks -- an awful lot of them in recent Food Network years, it seems -- that you pick up and immediately set back down. Then you scout for something of substance to pick up by, say, Diana Kennedy or Harold McGee, to pr [...]

Posted On : May, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Granta 112

This issue of the British literary journal is dedicated to Pakistan. There are the usual high quality stories and poems, artworks and photographs, but it is the in-depth journalism that really stands out - offering insights into Kashmir, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook review: 'Grilled Cheese, Please!'‎

When The Christian Science Monitor volunteered to send me a copy of Laura Werlin‘s new grilled cheese cookbook, "Grilled Cheese, Please!" in turn for a review, I asked where do I sign. Seemed like a no brainer to me. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook review: Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It

Author Karen Solomon, who lives in San Francisco, has been tinkering with food for many years, and this book is the result of her desire to make it easy for the rest of us to enjoy real, obtainable do-it-yourself artisan edibles. She o [...]

Posted On : Feb, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook review: The Flavors of Malaysia

Though a resident of Singapore, then a part of Malaysia, during the early 1950s, I doubt very much if my father ever had much of an opportunity to experience its astonishing variety of cuisines. Confined mostly to the Changi district (no [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook Review: Good Meat, A Good Idea While Oprah Goes Veg...

When we decided to circle back to Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat by Deborah Krasner this week, we didn't realize that Oprah and her staff of 370+ would be simultaneously announcing their week-l [...]

Posted On : Feb, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Book review The Blue Day Book

IT’S January again and the air seems heavy with post-Christmas blues and grudgingly made resolutions. From quitting this to eating less of that, it’s no wonder the start of the year can get to us. We all need a little b [...]

Posted On : Jan, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Cookbook Review: Culinary Tea, Or What To Do With All Those ...

Coffee is one of those gifts that tends to fall into the select giving category -- only those friends whom you're certain love the dark stuff will be blessed with a bag of premium roast. Tea, not so much, as those little bags of perk [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review: 'McIlvanney on Boxing' by Hugh McIlvanney

During the last few years of my life, I have been laden with the task of writing critiques and reviews of all sorts of texts, from the ancient and archaic to the contemporary and radical, from Beowulf to Ishiguro, via the requisite copio [...]

Posted On : Aug, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Mannie's Diet And Enzyme Formula

By Emanuel Barling Jr. Esq. and Ashley F. Brooks, R.N. has approximately 69 or more pages of medical references. For this reason, readers can attach some credibility to the presentation; however, the FDA has not made any formal evalu [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

DRACULA IN LOVE (Book Review)

“If the spirits of the dead call out to you, swaddle yourself tight with your shawl, make the sign of the cross for protection, and walk away.” Like the spirit of the dead, DRACULA IN LOVE (coming August 10 from Doubleday) ca [...]

Posted On : Aug, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review: Fortuna

Bored, frustrated computer graduate student Jason Lind chaffing at the constraints of Stanford crafts a new persona as Father Allesandro de Scala in the online role-playing game Fortuna. There, Jason finds the adventure so lacking i [...]

Posted On : Jul, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Sylvie and the Songman – Book Review

Imagine a world without bird song or any animal noises; where song has disappeared. For Sylvie Bartram this is just what happened one day as she was about to have her summer holiday. Her dog lost his bark. The birds stopped singing [...]