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Monthly Archives: November 2009

My first adventure with Giulia

Well, here we go! I have to say, I’m 100% hooked on this book – and the author. From the first of her recipes (a plum tomato sauce that reminded me of my grandmother’s recipe) I was definitely hooked. I see many of my own qualities in her – mainly her nurturing and the care [...]

So excited!

So here we are! It’s finally officially open! I’ve been waiting for a long time to make the announcement and share the site with people and today all the bio’s finally went up and I updated the “books” page. So we’re in business! There are still a lot of little things to add (links, etc) [...]

Fun Friday Night….

Well, I’m excited! We’ve decided on our first book for our journey – I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti by Giulia Melucci. As a full blooded Italian myself, I love a good story about a Brooklyn girl…especially one who can cook. I went out and picked up the book today to get our journey [...]

Welcome!

This is my first post as part of Cooking the Books – I hope that this posts! I’m so excited to get our blog underway – thanks to Gina for being the driving force behind this blog and Marilla for doing all the html work behind the scenes. I’m looking forward to more books and [...]

Welcome to Cooking the Books!

Welcome to our new venture in cooking/booking/blogging! In the vein of ‘Julie & Julia’, we’re a group of High School friends who’ve come together from different places, getting together once in a awhile and sharing our kitchen exploits with one another via the web! We’ll be cooking recipes from various books and sharing our results [...]