i heart alice waters

i have been trying to post for a week now. blogger is giving me trouble and i can't upload photos! boo!!! i'm looking to switch over to wordpress and re-vamp the blog a bit and my dedication to it, what i want to post about, etc.

if anyone is still out there now you know what is going on here the CPC!

in the meantime. . .

do you love Alice Waters? oh my. i have been reading The Art of Simple Food and just loving it. i love everything about her and what she stands for. i am gearing up for a spring and summer dedication to eating locally produced foods from veg to dairy to meat and eggs. can i do it? with the prices get me down? can i pay more for quality meats, raised humanely and locally even tho it's twice as expensive as the meat we've been eating (organic, but not local)? can i suck it up and pay $5 a dozen for the local eggs? this is what i ask myself. money is tight, but what's more important here? health. taste. supporting my community. mmmm....

i'm looking forward to a delicious season. come on in, spring!

foodie bookclub?

i may have mentioned before that i'm not an avid reader. i read mostly magazines (and blogs, of course). i love Gourmet and Real Simple and Fine Cooking when i can shell the cash to buy it.

much to my chagrin, i've just never really been a fiction reader. sure, i've read some novels, but not many and they are few and far between. i'm much more a reader of real-life. i've wondered for many years why this is. what is it that draws me to the biography or true tales? i'm not sure. i guess i just like to connect with people who are really out there in the world. i like to hear about life. real life and what people have been through or reasearched.

in a recent issue of Real Simple there was an article written by Steve Almond (yes, a GUY actually wrote for RS!) and it just cracked me up totally. i read nearly the whole thing aloud to hubby because i could not stop laughing. so, of course, i googled him. and i found a book he wrote called Candy Freak.

yes.

this was right up my alley.

i am now about 3-quarters of the way through it and it's just awesome. i admit to being a tad disappointed when it turned from memoir-of-childhood-candy-obsession to history-lesson-and-tour-of-regional-candy-makers, but i stuck with it and am glad i did. his writing is loose, but not careless. it's funny and sarcastic and spot-on. i love his style and maverick (o yes i did) sensibility.

i encourage you all to check it out.

and this got me thinking about reading and how much i loved Ruth Reichl's books (Tender at the Bone, Comfort Me With Apples, & Garlic and Sapphires) and how much i want to read other food-related books like The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters.

would a foodie bookclub be of interest to anyone out there!? all i need is a couple of buddies and i'm in!

anyone?