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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Tuesday at the Table

A couple of friends and I have been swapping books lately. Foodie books. It started with 2 that Sharon and I both wanted to read. She agreed to buy Delicious!: A Novel by Ruth Reichl, and I bought Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage by Molly Wizenberg. We'd each read our own, and then swap. So when the time came, Kathy happened to be there. She's a foodie too, and we were surprised she'd never read anything by these authors before. I mean each of their first books are 2 of my very favorites.
So I righted that little wrong by loaning Kathy my copies of A Homemade Life and Tender at the Bone this week. I'm anxious to hear how she liked them.

So tell me. What should we read next?
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16 comments:

  1. cat and vee xoxoJuly 8, 2014 at 1:13 AM

    I love Ruth Reichl! I loved Tender at the Bone, and Comfort Me with Apples, and I really loved Delicious - so much fun, and I couldn't wait to see what happened with Lulu. I love sharing books too, and have found so many great reads via friends' recommendations. Kate Atkinson's Life After Life is great, and Donna Tartt's Goldfinch, and The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton - and I'm now re-reading Ann Patchett's Bel Canto. Happy reading to you! Cat x

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  2. mogsincJuly 8, 2014 at 2:49 AM

    I suppose you have all read the ultimate foodie books "A Year in Provence" by Peter Mayle. They are excellent but my favourite, by far is very similar to that but predates it by a decade or so. It's set in Italy. It is " A Tuscan Year" by Elizabeth Romer. If you can get a copy it is an enjoyable and mouthwatering read.
    Thanks for your blog
    Di

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  3. CityHouseStudioJuly 8, 2014 at 4:37 AM

    I just finished reading Delancey, too, and loved it as much as her first book! I'm starting Eating on the Wild Side now -- interesting so far.

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  4. EllynJuly 8, 2014 at 6:07 AM

    no advice from me but adding all of these to my amazon wish list right now...

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  5. UnknownJuly 8, 2014 at 7:46 AM

    I read all of Ruth Reichel's autobiographies a couple of years ago. She is an excellent writer. I didn't know she has a novel too. Will have to look for it. Thanks!

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  6. Marci GirlJuly 8, 2014 at 8:21 AM

    I have no clue what you should read next, but ironically I read a review of Delancey this morning, and now I want to read that! I'm reading Heather Ross's autobiography right now.....

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  7. SharonJuly 8, 2014 at 2:38 PM

    Thanks for the post! I will certainly be adding to my list. Another one of my favorites was a memoir by Kathleen Flinn. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School.

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  8. Sandra CooperJuly 8, 2014 at 7:57 PM

    I loved the books you mentioned. I also like On Rue Tatum by Susan Herrman Loomis. I like her cookbooks as well. The novels by Joanne Harris are yummy.

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  9. agnesJuly 9, 2014 at 12:25 AM

    I loved Tender to the Bone! And that brownie recipe. I was so sad to find out they got divorced years later. Have you read Julia Child's My Life in France?

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  10. arajaneJuly 9, 2014 at 9:22 AM

    i love food books, too! one of my favorites is shark's fin and sichuan pepper: a sweet-sour memoir of eating in china by fuchsia dunlop. partly because i spent time in chengdu, where she studied sichuanese cooking, but also because she is a wonderful writer. and obviously anything by calvin trillin is amazing. i believe someone on Instagram mentioned this, but American Pie is a sweet book about searching for a great slice of pie.

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  11. Sandra CooperJuly 9, 2014 at 12:02 PM

    I hate it when my technology corrects me!! The book that I meant is "On Rue Tatin".

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  12. Leslie FrostJuly 9, 2014 at 7:07 PM

    Yes, Chef by Marcus Samuelsson and Blood, Bones & Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton are memoirs by two younger chefs who have each made a splash in NYC. Last November, we ate at both of their restaurants.

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  13. Katy CameronJuly 11, 2014 at 3:07 PM

    How funny, I was just reading about the Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage book on another blog an hour or so ago!

    Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe (the book they based the film on) was a nice book with lots of recipes, but it's fiction rather than fact (not sure if that's a deal breaker or not)

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  14. mjbJuly 18, 2014 at 11:17 AM

    I'm reading & loving Delancey now too - I just added all of the books by reviewers on her back cover to my goodreads "want to read" list. I second Blood, Bones & Butter as well.

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  15. www.randomthoughtsdoordi.comJuly 25, 2014 at 5:19 PM

    That's so funny. I just added both of these books to my wish list last week

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  16. trudys_personJuly 27, 2014 at 12:20 PM

    I love reading about food too, and I loved Ruth Reichl's books. You should track down two books by Laurie Colwin, Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. They're out of print, but still around. She used to write for Gourmet magazine, back in the 80s-90s I think, and she died quite young. They are both lovely books.

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