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Tried & Tested: AwareKnits

July 30, 2010
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Back in the spring of 2008, my mother and I went on a knitting cruise together. I know what you are thinking, but it was not a boat full of women. There were 30 to 40 of us who paid an extra fee to take classes while we were at sea from two [...]

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Confessions of a Bookseller

July 20, 2010
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I have a confession to make: I am 25 years old, I have a Bachelors degree in Literature, I work in a bookstore, and I am just now reading To Kill a Mockingbird for the first time.

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The Lonely Polygamist

June 30, 2010
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So there’s this book that I really, really like. It’s called The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall, and I’ll admit right off the bat that it was the title that first caught my eye. I did judge this book by its cover, and I’m very glad I did, because the story more than lives up [...]

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Tried & Tested: Embracing Vegetables!

June 17, 2010
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Recently, I fell into a vegetable rut. A very deep vegetable rut. Curiously, I love to cook and I love vegetables (well, most of them), but I just couldn’t get myself to make enough of them beyond those in our regular rotation at home: spinach, broccoli, carrots, salad greens, potatoes (and do potatoes even count, [...]

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Tried & Tested: Pork & Sons

May 17, 2010
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The pink-and-white gingham cover doesn’t exactly scream “serious cookbook,” but Pork & Sons (from Phaidon Press, who is on a major roll with their culinary titles) is a phenomenal and definitive pork cookbook. When I first opened it, I wanted to make practically everything in there. Having cooked [...]

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Tried & Tested: My affair with Baking

May 1, 2010
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I have hundreds and hundreds of cookbooks bursting my shelves at home and often feel guilty that I can’t spend as much time with each of them as I’d like. (Is that odd?) So it feels good when I’m able to devote myself to trying out several recipes from one book. Lately, and quite unexpectedly, [...]

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Spring Newsletter

April 13, 2010

Spring Newsletter: Reading recommendations from our staff

Our Spring Newsletter newsletter features spring reading recommendations from our staff. It includes such wonderful titles as The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow, Imperfect Birds by Anne Lamott, and It Sucked and Then I Cried by Heather Armstrong .
Pick up a printed copy of the [...]

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Great new cookbooks!

April 7, 2010
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If you love cookbooks as much as we do, then today is like Christmas!
Three new books by three terrific authors have just arrived: In the Green Kitchen by Alice Waters, Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking by Mario Batali, and Ready for Dessert: My Best Recipes by David Leibovitz.
We were lucky to [...]

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Radical Homemakers

March 19, 2010

Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
By Shannon Hayes
It seems like we understand the home as purposeful only through endless consumption. Hayes reminds us that the home can instead be a site of meaningful social production, with its own economy based on self-sufficiency and community. Through profiling different women and men who have opted [...]

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Mason-Dixon Knitting

March 18, 2010

Mason-Dixon Knitting: The Curious Knitter’s Guide: Stories, Patterns, Advice, Opinions, Questions, Answers, Jokes, and Pictures
By Ann Shayne and Kay Gardiner
This is one of my all-time favorite knitting books. It is full of patterns and techniques I return to again and again—especially the beautiful blanket patterns inspired by traditional quilts. The photography reminds me of why I [...]

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