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nine kinds of naughty jeanette grey
Book Reviews
Book Review: Nine Kinds of Naughty by Jeanette Grey
Jeanette Grey’s latest is a steamy, sexy, scorcher of self-discovery. **ARC won in a Twitter contest from the author/publisher** Jeanette Grey has a serious knack for bringing together gorgeous European locales, smokin’ hot sexy times and stories of self-discovery. Seven Nights to Surrender and Eight Ways to Ecstasy explored the theme with an aspiring artist and a…
February 22, 2017
Not About Food
Never Again
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Descent, from the National Park Service's Collection of Historical Documents. In 1940, my grandma was a 21-year old maid in Los Angeles. She worked for a family the Jefferson Park neighborhood and her name is listed with theirs in the Census. By the time President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive…
February 19, 2017
pho cookbook
Book Reviews Recipes
Book Review: Andrea Nguyen’s The Pho Cookbook
**ARC provided by publisher via Net Galley in exchange for honest review** Andrea Nguyen's The Pho Cookbook is a must have for pho-lovers. Garnished with history and personal stories of her travels in Vietnam, it has an avenue for *every* cook to make pho at home. Quick or classic, vegetarian or not, the Pho Cookbook has…
February 7, 2017
the girl before jp delaney
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Book Review: The Girl Before by JP Delaney
**ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for honest review** The Girl Before is a thought-provoking psychological thriller with a whisper of techno-sci-fi. It's tempting to compare it with other books with "Girl" in the title, but if anything, it's more like Girl on the Train meets Black Mirror. The book's deliciously…
January 24, 2017
Main Course Recipes
Chicken Tagine with Chickpeas
Cutting up a whole chicken seems like one of those kitchen artforms lost to time, literally because there's not enough of it. My mom dismantled whole birds on the regular when I was a kid because doing it yourself was so much cheaper than paying for the boneless, skinless. It's a thing I've only gotten better…
January 19, 2017
5 delicious ways to eat kale
Book Reviews Recipes
Kale Malfatti with Brown Butter & Pumpkin
Kale Malfatti with Brown Butter and Pumpkin from Chef Jenn Louis' next cookbook, Book of Greens.   The Book of Greens from Portland Chef Jenn Louis comes out in April, but I’m not going to be able to wait that long to talk about the kale malfatti with brown butter and pumpkin.By then, we’ll be at the very…
January 10, 2017
november book deals
Book Reviews
Digging into Persian Food with Taste of Persia
One of the things I'm going to do with DailyWaffle is tackle some cuisines and dishes I haven't really cooked at home, starting with Persian food. I'm planning to do injera, the Ethiopian flatbread made with teff flour; Beef Wellington, although the idea of screwing up a gorgeous piece of beef tenderloin is scary; and…
January 7, 2017
Book Reviews
Too Late by C.Hoover | Book Review
It’s not often I get to say, one of the main characters is a delusional, megalomaniac sh-tstain and you should really read this book.  But that’s the deal with Too Late by C. Hoover. Fair warning, this is not Colleen Hoover’s usual MO.  This book is dark and graphic — drugs, mental illness, abuse, murder…
January 4, 2017
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