Frogmore Stew (Low Country Boil)
Call Your Daughter Home takes place in the author’s hometown of Branchville, SC, which is Northwest of Charleston. The book talks a lot about a pudding made from hog intestines. […]
Call Your Daughter Home
Call Your Daughter Home is television producer Deb Spera’s debut novel. It is a dramatic story about three women whose lives are intertwined in Branchville, South Carolina in 1924. First, […]
2020: What a Year!
My favorite book of 2020 The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman. This is a haunting story about the Holocaust that is mixed with Jewish mysticism. Who knew that […]
Chocolate Wacky Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting
I can’t think of a more appropriate recipe for 2020 than Wacky Cake. This cake, which is also known as Crazy Cake or Depression Cake, is mixed right in the […]
Maque Choux with Sausage
The novel The Vanishing Half begins in a town called Mallard, Louisianna. I wanted to share one of my favorite Louisianna dishes. Maque Choux (pronounced “mock-shoe”) is a classic Creole […]
The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is the 2020 Goodreads Choice Award winning book for historical fiction. It had a total of 102,626 votes cast for it, with the second-place […]
Caramelized French Toast Bake
In The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, there is a time-loop that causes the same day to repeat over and over. If I was to have the same breakfast, day […]
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle was the 2018 debut novel of British author Stuart Turton. The novel is a very creative murder-mystery that is done in a time loop. […]
Mrs. Maisel’s Marvelous Brisket
The Lions of Fifth Avenue takes place in New York. My favorite New Yorker is Midge Maisel. The celebrity chef Babish has a fantastic brisket recipe that was inspired by […]
The Lions of Fifth Avenue
The Lions of Fifth Avenue by Fiona Davis is named for the world-renowned pair of marble lions that guard the Beaux-Arts building of the New York Public Library at Fifth […]