War-Zone Recipes
All the recipes I'll make from the blog just to get us through wherever we're fighting!
day in-day out craziness
more recipes/thought than you ever wanted to hear from me!
Memoir
He and I
A Life Through Marriage
A Culinary Travelogue
America Eats! On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials and Chitlin' Feasts that Define Real American Food.
An exploration of the lost Federal Writers' Project's reporting on American cooking.
Culinary Memoir
Pie Every Day
Getting through life with pies
Culinary History
Secrets of Saffron: The Vagabond Life of the World's Most Seductive Spice
How saffron journeyed from the Middle East and captured the world
Culinary history
A Soothing Broth
Exploring the old-fashion recipes used to feed the sick at home
Magazine Articles
How to Become a Mermaid
Publically flaunting your age on Surf Avenue
"The Good Dogs of Bad Men"
A teenage son, his drug dealer and the pitbull who loved them both

Biography

Me and the Indiana farmers out on RT 36

I have worked as a community organizer, waitress, short-order cook, seamstress, restaurant reviewer, editor, and journalist.

I am the author of three books about food: Pie Every Day was sited by Atlantic Monthly, Bon Appetit, and Amazon.com, as among the top ten cookbooks of 1997; A Soothing Broth (1999), about old recipes to feed the sick; and Secrets of Saffron, nominated as "Best Literary Cookbook in 2002" by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. My latest book, based on material written in the 1930s by the WPA, is America Eats!,On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin' Feasts that Define Real American Food.

A memoir, He and I: A Life Through Marriage, explores a young woman growing up through a long marriage and coming to terms with the bumptious nature of love, has finally been completed. I'm now about two hundred pages into a new book: I don't know what it's about yet but so far it has to do with an old town full of immigrants and the way food helped them become Americans.

I also teach. It keeps me off the streets....