The Return

Review: Healthy Fats, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook: Delicious Recipes to Help Reduce Bad Fats and Lower Your Cholesterol, 5 th Edition Robin P. Loveman, Senior Editor Harmony Books 2015 I love to browse cookbooks, look for new ideas, and read some of the extra narratives related to those recipes.   This particular cookbook caught my eye because I had purchased one of the earlier versions and since misplaced it.   The older one had some good stuff in it, but this one is like a while new world.   I can have tacos, and crepes, and all sorts of yummy desserts now like a brulee.   Vegetables and fruit are still musts, but in new ways.   Green beans and spinach are still out there, but so are edamame and artichokes.   There are sauces to drizzle over nearly any category of food to enhance the flavors and appearance. This is not the regimented cookbook I remember from before.   Beef is back and more recipes for a larger variety of seafood, too. ...

Review: The Little Paris Bookshop Nina George, translated by Simon Pare Crown Publishers 2015 The end of this book was such a sad moment for me.   There’s a relationship that develops between the book and the reader that you just want to go on even though the story has been told and you know it done.   It’s all about love, loss, and healing.   It’s written for those that have learned what those words mean.   Maybe the last few pages revisits those themes within the reader one last time.   Yes, breathing does come easier now.     The bookshop Perdu operates from a barge sits on the Seine and is as unique as his approach to his customers. He can read the needs of his customers and points them to the books that would most help them and refuses to sell them ones he feels can harm them.   It is a case of “physician heal thyself” though, and through a series of events and some well-crafted characters he meets along the way, who in the...