Monday, December 14, 2009
Well, as Marilla and Brianne have already posted, our CTB club finally got the chance to meet up at Franny’s and Bar(n), which, as previously reported, was a BLAST. I am a bit sad that we are all coming to a close with “I love, I lost, I made Spaghetti”, but I am incredibly thrilled [...]
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Us fabulous ladies from Cooking the Books got together last night at Franny’s in Brooklyn, an adorable restaurant Giulia Melucci (author of our first book, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti) recommended that serves fantastic brick oven pizza, and then to a bar called Bar(n) across the street, to celebrate our first book conquest. [...]
Sunday, November 29, 2009
So now, that Thanksgiving weekend is coming to end and I am thinking about returning to work, I am really sad that Giulia will no longer accompany me on the train for my morning commute. I am very grateful, however, that her book has found her way among my closet o’ cookery books! As you [...]
Friday, November 27, 2009
I have officially finished “I Loved, I lost, I made Spaghetti”, and I loved it! It was so interesting to me that each of her relationships were so different but so incredibly necessary. Thinking back to all of my own heartbreaking and heart aching (more heart-aching sadly for me) it is so true how necessary [...]
Monday, November 23, 2009
Well the A train was moving exceptionally slow today, and for once I was not upset because I got to read a hella lot of Giulia (whom I may have developed a girl crush on). I feel like we would be friends if we ever met. First the is the whole all girl catholic school [...]
Sunday, November 22, 2009
This is my first official post to Cooking the Books, so here’s hoping it works! I am so excited this site and club have taken off. I have officially purchased our first novel, which was an adventure in itself. My poor husband got dragged to not one, not two, not three, but four bookstores on [...]
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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 [...]
