This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”. For today’s #summerreads pick, I’ve got a new release from a favourite local author – Heather Marshall, whose book Looking for Jane was one of my favourite reads last year. The Secret History of … Read more
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”. I’ve got a feel-good French read for this week’s #summerreads instalment by one of my favourite Francophile authors – Gillian Harvey. The Riviera House Swap releases tomorrow, June 11th! From the publisher: Nina has … Read more
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be sharing book recommendations – a series of “not just cookbooks”. As soon as I saw that Janet Skeslien Charles had a new book coming out, I immediately requested it from the Toronto Public Library. I must have got lucky because shortly after Skeslien Charles’ … Read more
Coming at you with a recipe for a fabulous cool-weather dish (works well for rainy, still chilly spring days here in Toronto or early autumn days in the Southern Hemisphere!) Cassoulet is a slow-cooked (but not made in the slow cooker) casserole containing white beans and meat – typically duck confit, sausage and perhaps pork … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’m THRILLED to be sharing this memoir today by a good friend and inspriring-all-round-human. Jane Bertch’s The French Ingredient is a story I always knew was going to be told, as soon as I walked through the doors of the fabulous La Cuisine Paris cooking school back in 2011 (of … Read more
Hello and Happy French Friday! I’ve got a feel-good French read for you today by one of my favourite authors – Gillian Harvey’s The Bordeaux Books Club! From the publisher: Love books? The Bordeaux Book Club is seeking new members! When Leah and her husband moved to France, it was with the dream of becoming … Read more