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 today. https://tinyurl.com/4cq5csl
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 grain cookbooks out there, but this one’s flour-by-flour approach I found original and especially timely.” Ree Drummond put it another way: “I won’t be able to bake through the book fast enough.”
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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 for Best Contemporary Fiction, sponsored by Women Writing the West. Keep your fingers crossed on Sandi’s behalf!
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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 frank, helpful book she offers practical advice and comforting perspective on all the issues, large and small, that families of all faiths and backgrounds confront as their children move through adolescence. Here is a voice of humor, reason, and compassionate sanity in a culture driven by hyper-competitiveness, hyper-vigilance, and hyper-activity. The Blessing of a B Minus inspires and consoles. Most importantly, this very readable book gives us the tools we need to become more conscious, confident parents. This is not Jewish wisdom, it is human wisdom, and I for one am a most grateful recipient.”
—Katrina Kenison, author of The Gift of an Ordinary Day
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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 When Bad Things Happen to Good People
“Wendy Mogel’s ability to make old wisdom new is uncanny. She is herself a wise woman. The parents of America – and therefore the children, too – should be grateful for her.” —Leon Wieseltier
“We should all give thanks for The Blessing of a B Minus. Like Wendy Mogel herself, this book is funny and full of common sense. It will give parents something they need: perspective on the complicated and often maddening business of raising adolescents.” —Michael Thompson, Ph.D., author of It’s a Boy: Your Son’s Development from Birth to Eighteen
“Wendy Mogel’s signature humor, humility and wisdom are back in full force in The Blessing of a B Minus, which will bring much-needed sanity to parents of teens. Hers is the voice that every parent dreams of finding while wading through the confusion of childrearing today: calm, knowing, empathetic and informed both by professional knowledge and personal experience. Her insights are infused with a widely appealing kind of faith that will strike a universal chord in parents seeking both a moral and practical compass. This is a book that will be re-read over and over again.” —Judith Warner, author of Perfect Madness and We’ve Got Issues
I’m so proud of Wendy!
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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 REVOLUTION, written with Charles Wilson, just sold in a lively seven-way auction to Lauren Marino at Gotham. Time magazine named Will one of the 100 most influential people in the world this year in a list that included Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Conan O’Brien, Sonia Sotomayor, and Michael Pollan. To find out more about the extraordinary work he and his colleagues do, visit growingpower.org.
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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 of his future; I’m caught up in visions of mine. All of a sudden, I know with a certainty I haven’t allowed myself to confront before: Somehow, I am going to have to deliver this baby.
Obviously, you say. But my first birth was traumatic, and although my son and I emerged fine, I lost a year seeking treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and all the depression, fear and anger it brings. I imitated mothers who seemed normal to me, cooing and tickling my son. In truth, I was a zombie, obsessing about how I had ever let what happened happen.
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Finish the piece here: https://www.self.com/health/2010/07/birthing-plan-controversies. Taffy is a brilliant writer.
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Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN *wins* the James Beard Award!
News from New York last night — Kim Boyce’s GOOD TO THE GRAIN won the James Beard Award in the baking and dessert category. Well deserved! Now on to the IACP…