Author Archives: Betsy Amster
Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN is nominated for a James Beard award!
GOOD TO THE GRAIN strikes me as a once-in-a-decade kind of cookbook. No wonder it’s been nominated for every award in sight!
John Vorhaus has friends in high places
I guess this is what comes from having friends in Hollywood. Check out the super-professional, super-fun (and super no-budget, I’m told) video that John Vorhaus and his Hollywood filmmaker friends have created to support John’s new novel, The Albuquerque Turkey, available from Crown in a week. Trust me: It’ll be the best 4:40 you spend […]
Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN is nominated for an IACP award!
Am I surprised? Not really! Kim’s cookbook is a real winner. She’s competing with Bon Appetit and Alice Medrich. Keep your fingers crossed!
Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN wins food52’s Tournament of Cookbooks
Food52’s Tournament of Cookbooks pitted the 16 most notable cookbooks of 2010 against each other in rounds judged by Michael Ruhlman, Ree Drummond, Gabrielle Hamilton, Corby Kummer, Christine Muhlke, Susan Orlean, Mario Batali, and 10 other high profile judges. GOOD TO THE GRAIN won. As Michael Ruhlman wrote in his verdict, “There are other whole […]
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Another Mary Higgins Clark Award nomination for Sandi Ault!
Sandi Ault’s WILD INDIGO, the first in her acclaimed WILD mystery series, won the Mary Higgins Clark Award, a special Edgar Award®, in 2008–the first time a debut novel was nominated. Now Sandi has been nominated again, this time for the fourth volume in the series, WILD PENANCE, which already won the 2010 Willa Award […]
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More praise for Wendy Mogel
A lovely quote from Katrina Kenison for Wendy Mogel’s forthcoming The Blessing of a B Minus: “Did Wendy Mogel spend the last few years as a fly on the wall in my house, observing every battle and eavesdropping on every difficult conversation I’ve ever had with my kids? So it would seem. In this remarkably […]
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Praise for Wendy Mogel
The Blessing of a B Minus, Wendy Mogel’s eagerly awaited follow-up to her New York Times bestseller The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, is due from Scribner this October. Quote are pouring in: “Wise, witty and well-written, this book is a treasury of common sense for anyone dealing with adolescents.” —Rabbi Harold Kushner, author of […]
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Will Allen’s THE GOOD FOOD REVOLUTION goes to Gotham
MacArthur Fellow Will Allen, a former fast-food executive, bought a derelict two-acre plot in a struggling neighborhood in Milwaukee and built a pioneering urban farm that feeds thousands who otherwise would not have access to healthy food, demonstrating how a relationship with the soil can heal broken communities and people. His manifesto THE GOOD FOOD […]
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Read Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s amazing piece in Self Magazine
Here’s how it begins: That I am pregnant again is an act of either incredible optimism or mind-blowing amnesia. As the sonogram technician squirts jelly over my abdomen for my 20-week checkup, I think it’s the latter. Watching this baby, who the tech tells me is a boy, I am not caught up in visions […]
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Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN *wins* the James Beard Award!