Les Livres Qui Reste(nt) Ici

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods, or steepy mountain yields.
The book remaining longest on my shelves, therefore deserving of Christopher Marlowe’s pastoral, is Waverly Root’s ‘Food’. Why should this be so? The poor old thing is broken-backed, it looks as if someone [...]

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Wherefore Art Thou, Book of my Dreams?

Have you ever really wanted a book of some sort so much that you started to fantasize about owning it? I don’t mean like owning it part-time, taking it out of the library then returning it. I mean like a book you just have to own.
I have, and it’s strange, because I don’t really want [...]

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Stop Playing With Your Book and Eat It! (International Edible Book Festival)

I’m not sure whether I think that people who read books who also cook are very amusing people in general or whether I think that people who cook who also read books are very amusing people. From the festival website:
April 1st is the birthday of French gastronome Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755-1826), famous for his book Physiologie [...]

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