Buono Appetito: A Review of Da Silvano Cookbook: Simple Secrets from New York’s Favorite Italian Restaurant Marchetto has watched food trends come and go, while his Greenwich Village restaurant on 6th Avenue has continued to flourish, attracting the celebrities whose…
A review of How to Write, Publish & $ell E-Books! by Angela Adair-Hoy
Review of How to Write, Publish & $ell E-Books! by Angela Adair-Hoy How to Write, Publish & $ell E-Books! is a useful reference, which will inspire authors who are interested in breaking into the low cost, high return, and very…
A Review of Tamasin Day-Lewis’ Simply the Best: The Art of Seasonal Cooking
The book is divided into sections based on the seasons, with brief essays at the start of each, which contain bits of reminiscence on Day-Lewis’ childhood, her experiences with foods, her feelings about and philosophy. Between each season are the columns, each addressing a different food, or local producer, followed by recipes either inspired by her experiences or by the artisan she writes about. There are handmade cheese companies, deer farmers, eel smokers, baby asparagus growers, bread bakers, fishmongers, trips to Italy for hand crafted olive oil, honey, slow food, and truffles, fresh country markets, handmade chocolates, small but perfectly run shops, trips to Ireland, exquisite restaurants, and guesthouses, and home cooked meals.
A Review of Gabriel Gate’s Weekend on a Plate
A Review of Gabriel Gate’s Weekend on a Plate Gaté has a very delicate prose style, which is both casual and sophisticated, evoking clean white tableclothes, fresh coffee, crusty breads, quality wines, and herb rich meat dishes prepared with care.…
A Review of Peter Bowerman’s The Well Fed Writer
Reading The Well Fed Writer, you can’t help but feel excited and positive about the possibility of making a good living as a Freelance Commercial Writer (FLCW in Bowermanspeak). Bowerman’s many years of experience in sales and marketing, and obvious…
A review of Jenna Glatzer’s More Than Any Human Being Needs to Know About Freelance Writing Workbook
As Editor in Chief of Absolute Write (www.absolutewrite.com), and the published author of hundreds of articles, columns, reviews, features, profiles, interviews, brochures, and books on a wide range of topics, Glatzer knows her business. More Than Any Human Being Needs to…
A review of Dan Poynter’s Writing Non-Fiction: Turning Ideas into Books
The system is really quite ingenious, and makes a lot of sense. By setting up a manuscript in a way that looks quite like a book, prior to actually writing the book, you firstly create a kind of visual prompt…
A Review of the film The Talented Mr Riply
The Talented Mr. Ripley is an Hitchcockian and blood-curdling study of the psychopath and his victims. At the centre of this masterpiece, set in the exquisitely decadent scapes of Italy, is a titanic encounter between Ripley, the aforementioned psychopath protagonist and…
A review of Manhattan Monologues by Louis Auchincloss
Auchincloss is an inheritor of the territory once handled by Henry James and Edith Wharton, territory that is sometimes dismissed without the understanding that it remains an important literary and social realm. Marginally observed, the rich are rarely discussed with…
Buxom Cakes and Homemade Sin: A Review of Death By Chocolate Cakes by Marcel Desaulniers
Desaulniers’ prose is nearly as seductive as his way with chocolate. No pedantic, chef-on-high stuff here: Desaulniers writes about baking with a wayward grin, assuring us that cake is not only food for the gods, but that it is, after all, just cake. Made in kitchens just like ours, with chocolate bought in the local grocery, using “conventional” bake ware and regular (not restaurant) ovens, Desaulniers’ cakes are ones we really can bake ourselves.