Okay, come on now. Sometimes these NYT Cooking recipes go just a tad overboard. My dad used to make the greatest oyster stew evah with canned oysters and canned chicken stock, with liberal applications of canned butter and garlic powder. And not forgetting oyster crackers, the one ingredient he considered absolutely essential.(Click through image above…
I don’t read books by writers on writing. It’s too much like work. There are as always exceptions to every rule, of course, and Barbara Kingsolver’s chapters in High Tide in Tucson, on her first book tour and on being a backup singer for the Rock Bottom Remainders are brilliant, true, and hilarious. (I loved…
These are all (I hope) of the books mentioned on the air during Coffee Table this morning. For Christmas gifts for friends and family, as follows: Tom likes Alcohol Can be a Gas by David Blume. Amy likes The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Samantha loves her new cookbook, Fish…
