This morning on The Point our book topic was food. Here are our picks.
Kellie’s Picks
Scrambled Eggs Super! by Dr. Seuss
Adventures in Slow Cooking by Sarah DiGregorio
Homer Price by Robert McCloskey “The Doughnuts” chapter
The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book with a foreword by M. F. K. Fisher
Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder & Christmas Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, which includes the character Thurston, the cook
Stories From the Kitchen edited by Diana Secker Tesdell
Cod by Mark Kurlansky
Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: a novel of pastry, guilt, and music by Mark Kurlansky
Voracious: a hungry reader cooks her way through great books by Cara Nicoletti
The Food Activist Handbook by Ali Berlow
Not Enough Time For
Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser
The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
Cake by Maira Kalman with recipes by Barbara Scott-Goodman
The Kitchen Book/The Cook Book by Nicolas Freeling
Blood, Bones & Butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
Listener Picks
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
On Rue Tatin: living and cooking in a French town by SusanHerrmann
La Cucina: a novel of rapture by Lily Prior
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Guns, Germs and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond
Smitten Kitchen Every Day by Deb Perelman
Tender at the Bone by Ruth Reichl
Babette’s Feast, which is both a film and a short story by Isak Dinesen