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10 Dec Garlic & Gauloises

Posted at 21:51h in Authors, Doughnuts for Amy, Good Friends, Great Books, Literary Agents, Other Voices, Winter Goose Publishing by ChefJohn 0 Comments

Now that I've been picked up by a real publisher, I've found that I have a new family. I'm now a part of the Winter Goose Publishing family and all of us lean on and support one another. We disagree, we laugh, cheer and occasionally...

19 Apr Interview with The Poet

Posted at 14:38h in Great Books, Jessica Kristie, Literary Agents, Other Voices, Poetry by ChefJohn 0 Comments

In celebration of National Poetry Month, I’ve interviewed poet Jessica Kristie. A Rod McKuen 8-Track. That was my first exposure to poetry and looking back, it didn’t resonate with me because if my sisters liked it then I wanted no part of it. And if this...

27 Feb “Mr. Ready’s Coming!”

Posted at 11:19h in Adult Beverages, Food, Good Friends, Great Books by ChefJohn 2 Comments

For a cook, there’s something very endearing about a cookbook that contains a recipe that begins with, “For 1,000 pounds of pork...

09 Dec A Review of Lowcountry Boil

Posted at 14:56h in Great Books, Salt Water Beach by ChefJohn 2 Comments

Are you looking for a clever murder mystery? One with a unique sense of place and enough quirky characters to make the cast of The Big Bang Theory take notice. Can you deal with a ghost as a central character? And I don’t mean a...

24 Nov Barbed Wire Butterfly

Posted at 15:16h in Good Friends, Great Books, Jessica Kristie by ChefJohn 0 Comments

On first glance Jessica Kristie’s debut novel has a distinct Dickens’ like narrative: Kidnapped pre-teenage children living out a meager existence as slave labor of a shadowy manufacturing complex far removed from the caring eyes of civilized society. The child-laborers are coerced through beatings, rape,...

12 Nov Bits of Glass

Posted at 08:15h in Airplanes, Breakfast, Family, Food, Great Books, Peaches, What's really important by ChefJohn 0 Comments

I recently picked up one of my favorite books from my childhood, Edward Jablonski’s Flying Fortress. It’s a highly researched and detailed account of the brave American airmen that flew B-17 bombers during World War 2. I can remember devouring that book in fifth grade...

12 Nov Bits of Glass

Posted at 08:15h in Airplanes, Breakfast, Family, Food, Great Books, Peaches, What's really important by ChefJohn 0 Comments

27 Oct A Book Review

Posted at 20:54h in Great Books by ChefJohn 14 Comments

Today’s forecast, grey, cold, cloudy and humid. The day I started reading Emlyn Chand’s Torn Together, the weather mimicked the feel of the first forty pages of this novel. 20 year-old budding artist Daly English is struggling through life. Her father has recently passed away...

12 May I won a Date with Tony Bourdain

Posted at 21:39h in 33 Liberty, Adult Beverages, Great Books, Pinot Noir, the whole "celebrity chef" thing, Wine by ChefJohn 0 Comments

From the Fall of 2006 It’s 7:00 a.m. on a Friday morning and I’m lying in bed watching the ceiling fan as it slowly induces in me some well-deserved motion sickness. At least I am in a very nice bed and the bathroom is only a short...

07 May A Reading Recommendation

Posted at 22:52h in Great Books by ChefJohn 2 Comments

My friend Andy Holloman's novel, Shades of Gray is FREE on Amazon, the E-Version that is. So if you have a Kindle or Kindle App and really enjoy a well-written, tightly constructed, edge of your seat thriller with a cleverly devised ending (everything that 50...