It’s the season of New Year’s resolutions, and as the temperatures drop, what better season is there for spending time in the kitchen honing your cooking and baking skills? Whether you’re sharpening your skills for fun or as part of your career, a valuable resource available to you in your culinary endeavors is your local library. Of course, the first thing that comes to mind when thinking of libraries is books, and the library offers a wide selection of cookbooks about nearly every subject in the culinary universe. Along with family favorites like the Betty Crocker Cookbook, recipes from Taste of Home and Food and Family, and classics such as Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the cookbook world is diverse and can be surprisingly specific. For instance, a book called Sauces teaches readers about which sauces taste the best on which things, and picking up a specific skill can be easy with cookbooks about specialized techniques like preserving, sous vide, or cooking with cast iron. There are also plenty of cookbooks from your favorite TV shows, books by industry specialists, and even some by celebrities. Books with recipes especially for those with diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, and autoimmune diseases, and cookbooks for special diets such as keto, gluten free, or vegan are now more widely available than ever before. Furthermore, books like The Science of Cooking and How Baking Works explain the fascinating scientific processes behind cooking and baking, and The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt is…
DRM is an acronym that readers may not associate with good experiences – you’ll encounter it a lot in articles about the woman who had her digital library remotely wiped from her Kindle by Amazon or ones about the poetic deletion of George Orwell’s 1984 from hundreds of e-reader devices. DRM is a topic that gets people in flames – and as a future author,… [Read More]
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Austin hosted another Texas Book Festival over a beautifully crisp and sunny fall weekend, October 27-28. Having gone over budget at the vendor tents last year, I resisted temptation this time by heading straight for the capitol to hear authors speak. Not realizing that I would have to stand in line for a security check and then make my way through the bowels of the… [Read More]
Not everyone has the willpower to sit down and write for an hour everyday. With pop-up notifications, the siren call of the internet, and everyday life getting in the way, sometimes even the formatting bar in your word processor can be enough to drive you away from wordsmithery. This overwhelming feeling of distraction is probably why there are multiple competing software applications aimed at creating… [Read More]
I love books. I love bargains. I love bargain books. Where do you do your bargain basement book buying? My first forays into used book buying were with my dad at the venerable Holmes Book Company on 14th Street in Oakland, California. Built in 1924, the store was spacious but dark with unpainted wood everywhere—floors, stairs, display cases, shelves—like Fezziwig’s warehouse crammed with books. My… [Read More]
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Many memoir writers worry prematurely about the people they plan to write about and whether they might take offense or be hurt by recollections and revelations of past events. Stop worrying. Start writing. Give them something to talk about, as Bonnie Raitt sings. For those who struggle to sit down and inscribe their personal memories, the internal editor kicks in as soon as they pick… [Read More]