Thanks to Kristin Hohenadel and Chip Brantley of cookthink.com for including me in the cookthinktank as the featured author this week. This coincides with the paperback edition of TRAIL OF CRUMBS, available today in bookstores. Check out the new beautiful cover. Thanks again to everyone at Grand Central Publishing, my wonderful editor, [...]
Today the Korean translation of my book, Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Grand Central) was published. The Korean Title is: Recipes in the Age of My 30’s: Provence in the Middle of Summer, I was always a lonely traveler, though I had love…
It is an honor to be published [...]
Lee is the author of This Many Miles From Desire. He was kind enough to greet me on my first evening here in Seoul. Meeting for the first time in the country where we were both born, and both abandoned was interesting. We are searching–separately, and somehow together with all the others–for [...]
All of this is happening very quickly, but I’m going back to Seoul this Sunday May 4th. Originally, I was going to check out the markets, restaurants, and street food of my birth country but now my Korean publisher, Minumsa, will be publishing the Korean edition of Trail of Crumbs May 9th.
I’m also going [...]
I just got back from a book tour in NC. First, an event at Nancy Olson’s wonderful gem of a bookstore, Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, and then an event with Sara Foster and Bill Smith (of Crook’s Corner) at Foster’s Market in Chapel Hill. Sara and Bill transformed the recipes from Trail [...]
This is a lovely place to stay and relax in Cary, NC, especially if it’s your birthday and you’re on book tour at the nearby Quail Ridge Books and Music
Thanks to Pastry Chef Daniel Benjamin for a gorgeous birthday surprise.
I love her new book
a children’s book for adults
pages to wander through in the early morning
on a winter afternoon when the snow
is falling so softly, when your heart
is a bit lopsided,
when you’ve said it all
but no one seems to understand
when the words are hard to find
this is the book
The Principles of Uncertainty
These are the Italian words Frances Mayes wrote to me yesterday when I emailed that I was sick, sick, sick, and that this was just the beginning of my book tour. Pig Misery or Dirty Pig, either translation is good for the way I’m feeling. For those who think book touring is all [...]
I was in Atlanta this weekend for SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) where Logan Ward and I (along with about 30 other authors) took part in the Moveable Feast of Authors. This is where each author has about 10 minutes with a table of booksellers to talk about his or her book, before moving [...]
What I’m reading, rereading or hoping to read soon:
Baking From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
The Kitchen Diaries by Nigel Slater (so gorgeous, I want to climb into his kitchen and never leave)
CONVERSATIONS WITH WENDELL BERRY
trying to read in Swedish books by poet/novelist Charlotte Brady
MANGEZ-Moi by Agnes Desarthe
Deux Fois Par Semaine de Christine Orban
MARCUS [...]
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