Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Make your own meat and cheese without involving animals

Fake Meat Real Food for Vegan Appetites by Isa Chandra Moskowitz

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It looks like the theme for vegan cooking for early 2023 is make your own meat substitutes. The newest entry to this group is Fake Meat by Isa Chandra Moskowitz. The author is basically the OG of modern approachable vegan cooking. She’s also my only cookbook automatic pre-order any and all new titles. Most previous Isa books are “vegan for beginners” in nature, in that they feature more readily available ingredients and normal cooking standard processes. This time, things gets a little more advanced. There’s […]

The Randomness of Food Trends Past at the Antique Store

The Southern Junior League Cookbook by Ann Seranne

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I don’t especially care for antique stores, but sometimes they do have interesting books, especially things like The Southern Junior League Cookbook. This book dates to the late seventies, and has recipes from about 30 different Junior League cookbooks from North Carolina to Florida, and Georgia to Texas. A lot of it is the sort of thing you’d expect, home cookery recipes and what we might now call ‘hacks’ for most of your basic categories from Appetizers and Soup to Meat and Poultry to Grains-Beans-Peas […]

The GBBO judges are the losers here

The Great British Baking Show Favorite Flavors by Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, 2022 bakers

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So the Great British Bake Off aka Great British Baking Show books have been kind of hit or miss; more miss lately, but thankfully, in spite of some unfortunate decisions during the actual series, the book is back to what it should be: cool bakes that are actually achievable and useful to an average home baker. The Great British Baking Show: Favorite Flavors has a lot of things I think I both can and actually want to try. Before I get into the good stuff, […]

All Style No Substance

Beautiful Platters & Delicious Boards by Cedar Mill Press

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Beautiful Platters & Delicious Boards looks really pretty, as in it has many attractive and colorful picture. I had a good time with my New Year’s experiment with this trend (using a different cookbook), and I was hoping for some more ideas as March is not just birthday month, but also this year, it’s a decade-change. This requires more extensive food-fun. That said, it turns out, this was not the book for that. It’s all a big lie. This book has quite a few recipes […]

“I’m as God wants, No more, no less”

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

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From Scratch, a charming memoir by Trembi Locke, is a wonderful reflection on life, death, family, food, and Sicily. Trembi, a fairly successful actress whom I had never heard of, is a smart black Texan, who falls in love with a Sicilian chef while studying abroad in Rome.  This memoir covers their meeting when she is young,  the expanding of their family when they adopt a child, his losing battle with cancer, and her coming to terms with widowhood. Her husband’s family initially refuses not […]

The heroine should stay feisty; no fainting allowed!

Kakuriyo Bed and Breakfast for Spirits vol 6 by Waco Ioka, Midori Yuma, Laruha

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I’d almost figured that the Kakuriyo manga had either been stalled indefinitely or cancelled; it’s been about a year I think since the current volume was out (#6) but I saw recently that there’s volume 7 coming; I liked the anime version of the story so I’m hoping that the written version continues, although it so far is nearly the same as the animated. The basic premise is that college student Aoi inherited the ability to see ghosts and spirits from her grandad who took […]



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