Faith, Family & the Feast: Recipes to Feed Your Crew from the Grill, Garden, and Iron Skillet
“I learned to cook from trial and error because there wasn’t a recipe,” says Kent Rollins. “I still don’t measure. When people say how much is that, I say just enough.”
Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews
A combination cookbook, Jewish stand-up comedy and family album, Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food […]
Spring Break Destination: Mackinaw City
Early April fun in Northern Michigan.
Abra Berens of Granor Farms in Southwest Michigan Nominated for a James Beard Award.
Abra Berens, chef in residence for Granor Farm in Three Oaks was nominated for the Best Chef award in the Great Lakes Region by the James Beard Foundation.
In San Sebastian: Organic Coffee, Haciendas and the Casa Museo de Doña Conchita Encarnación
Early Friday on the day before we were to leave Puerto Vallarta, we drove to San Sebastian de Oeste, once […]
Molino Tortilleria: Making Tortillas Like a Millennium Ago
From making tortillas from scratch in their home kitchen using imported non-GMO heritage corn varieties from a milpa or small […]
Bodega Muelas de Tordesillas: A Spanish Wine Adventure
The Rueda Wine Trail traces the history of viticulture in the provinces of Valladolid and Ávila where the wine production dates back to the 11th century
The Little Women Cookbook: Novel Takes on Classic Recipes from Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Friends
The Little Women Cookbook: Novel Takes on Classic Recipes from Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Friends, is a charming look at the way the characters of the book would have eaten back then.
Celebrate Mardi Gras Time in Southwest Michigan!
Ignore the snow outside because inside Timothy’s Restaurant in Union Pier, Michigan, it’s New Orleans during Mardi Gras season, purple, […]
Historic Spirits: Preserving the Past and Connecting to the Present with Journeyman Distillery & the Field Museum
The dazzling 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition brought 27 million people to Chicago which was no small feat given that […]
Food & Drinks: Super Pairing for the Super Bowl
Game On! Wine expert Cassandra Rosen offers a way to take game day beyond chips and beer with special pairings […]
King Hills Comfort Food Cruise Returns: Just launched Comfort Food Trail Pass included in tickets.
The 7th annual Hocking Hills Comfort Food Cruise runs for the next three weekends in beautiful Hocking Hills, Ohio. It’s the […]
Hanukkah 2019
Hanukkah, also known as the Festival of Lights, is celebrated on the 25th day of the month of Kislev […]
Schimpff’s, one of the oldest, continuously operated, family-owned candy businesses in the United States, dates back to the late 1800s.
Schimpff's, one of the oldest, continuously operated, family-owned candy businesses in the United States, opened in its present location in 1891 but the family has been making candy in the Jeffersonville area long before that.
KETO POWER!!
Keto diets which while very similar to the Atkins Diet, both of which are based on drastically reducing carbohydrates in […]
Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Second Edition: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery
Cancer-Fighting Kitchen a finalist in the Health & Special Diet category of the IACP Awards.
Travel/Food Photos
Shelf Life: Shelf Life
My Lovely Wife
“It didn’t start off as a murder,” says Samantha Downing, whose bestselling first novel My Lovely Wife (Berkley Trade 2020, $16) was recently released in paperback. “The first death was accidental but not the second.”
Follow Me: An Instagram Influencer Discovers the Dark and Dangerous Side of the Internet
Being a social media influencer with over a million followers means never feeling alone but it also means opening your life to a stalker as Audrey Miller soon finds out.
The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
When New York Times bestselling author Erik Larson (Devil in the White City; Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania) moved to New York five years ago, he had what he describes as a revelation. He had watched, horrified, as 911 unfolded on CNN. “But I wondered what was it like for […]
The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly
A beautiful Hollywood star; a handsome rich prince. It should have been perfect. But, of course, it wasn’t.
The Other Mrs.
After staying up late reading The Other Mrs. by Chicago author Mary Kubica, I have a word of advice for women out there. If you’re husband’s sister commits suicide and her home on a remote island off the coast of Maine is yours if you agree to live there and take care of her […]
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Tightrope tells the tale of an America that is still in the process of losing well-paying jobs, where people work two or more jobs just to make ends meet, where one illness can turn into a bankruptcy for those who are uninsured or underinsured and where opioids and other drugs lead to incarceration, early death and family destruction
How Quickly She Disappears
Intrigued by the tales his grandparents told of living in Tanacross, a small Alaskan village back in the late 1930s, Indiana author Raymond Fleischmann has woven a mystery set in that time frame and location. “I grew up hearing their stories about Alaska, the cold, the isolation, the long days and the long […]
MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES
Class Mom meets Small Admissions in MINOR DRAMAS & OTHER CATASTROPHES, a wryly-observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High–the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle–and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. A former teacher, Kathleen West keeps us amused and amazed in her […]
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
Ronan Farrow’s book reads like a fast-paced mystery/thriller with hired spies, tapped phones, double and triple crosses, stalking by hired thugs and threats.
Old School Love and Why It Works
“We’ve had hard times, but we have resilience and we always knew we wanted to be together,” says Rev Run, front man of Run-DMC about how he and his wife make their marriage work.
Travel/Food
Murders That Made Headlines
Lincoln Road Trip: The Back-Roads Guide to America’s Favorite President
How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers
Midwest Made
The Keto Instant Pot Cookbook: Ketogenic Diet Pressure Cooker Recipes Made Easy and Fast
The One Pot Ketogenic Diet
Food & Drinks: Super Pairing for the Super Bowl
Game On! Wine expert Cassandra Rosen offers a way to take game day beyond chips and beer with special pairings […]
Faith, Family & the Feast: Recipes to Feed Your Crew from the Grill, Garden, and Iron Skillet
“I learned to cook from trial and error because there wasn’t a recipe,” says Kent Rollins. “I still don’t measure. When people say how much is that, I say just enough.”
Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food and Food Lovers Who Like Jews
A combination cookbook, Jewish stand-up comedy and family album, Eat Something: A Wise Sons Cookbook for Jews Who Like Food […]
Spring Break Destination: Mackinaw City
Early April fun in Northern Michigan.
Abra Berens of Granor Farms in Southwest Michigan Nominated for a James Beard Award.
Abra Berens, chef in residence for Granor Farm in Three Oaks was nominated for the Best Chef award in the Great Lakes Region by the James Beard Foundation.
In San Sebastian: Organic Coffee, Haciendas and the Casa Museo de Doña Conchita Encarnación
Early Friday on the day before we were to leave Puerto Vallarta, we drove to San Sebastian de Oeste, once […]
Molino Tortilleria: Making Tortillas Like a Millennium Ago
From making tortillas from scratch in their home kitchen using imported non-GMO heritage corn varieties from a milpa or small […]
Bodega Muelas de Tordesillas: A Spanish Wine Adventure
The Rueda Wine Trail traces the history of viticulture in the provinces of Valladolid and Ávila where the wine production dates back to the 11th century
The Little Women Cookbook: Novel Takes on Classic Recipes from Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Friends
The Little Women Cookbook: Novel Takes on Classic Recipes from Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy and Friends, is a charming look at the way the characters of the book would have eaten back then.