If someone had ever told me I’d start collecting cookbooks, I would have wanted to put money on the opposite so I could for sure win a sucker bet. Except, the sucker would turn out to be me.
It’s not so much that I enjoy cooking – I don’t – it’s that I enjoy learning. And over the past couple of years because of health reasons and conscious living, I’ve been trying to learn more about food, health, storage, preparation, seasonal eating, vegetarian diets and all that good stuff. And the winter seemed like a great time to learn, when I was tucked inside during snow storm after snow storm and looking for new ideas for eating besides my go to chicken and rice. And oh, did I learn, and more than just about cooking. I was inspired to spend my evenings tucked in my reading chair, next to a candle, absorbed in a good book.
Which is why this turned out to be the winter of reading. It wasn’t only cookbooks I dived into – there was an array of books from childhood favourites to business to inspiring tales. I was all over the place with reading which, for so many reasons, was a huge deal and something I had missed for a long time. Now that Spring is officially here, I’m keen to start reading in the backyard and take on some seasonal books. In fact, my current reading wishlist has become ginourmous and I have a goal to finally start checking them all off this year.
So with that, here are some of my recent favourite reads (the link will take you to Amazon.com where you can learn more about the book):
(You can see some more of my reads on my Amazon List – but I haven’t really kept it updated).
at 12:03 pm
I’m also an Aquarian, and want to learn as much as possible about health in general, so I read everything I can lay my hands on. I also have over two hundred cookbooks, but still download recipes from my favorite food bloggers. I think I need to see a shrink!
at 5:57 pm
I’m intrigued!
So will you tell us what took you to Philadelphia? Are you working for Anthropologie designing awesomeness? Are you surviving cold?
Lovely pictures, as usual.
at 7:29 pm
Hey Alison, this post explains some. I visited, I fell in-love, I’m here. Pretty simple
And I did survive the cold that am very happy to have Spring. That is the only thing that has be hesitating about staying here is winter – despite my upbringing I cannot get used to it. I love the year round one-layer dressing that LA has to offer but I love so much more in Philadelphia. We’ll see!
at 4:51 pm
thank you alex for all you do . . . hope things are going well. . . here’s to books
at 5:49 pm
You must read ‘Snow Falling on Cloudberries’ if you haven’t yet. A sumptuous foodie memoir-cum-cookbook. Blissful.
Anna
at 5:51 pm
Forgive me, ‘Falling Cloudberries’ – I had a book-combination-related-confusion’! oops!
at 6:51 am
I just finished “The Kitchen Diaries” by Nigel Slater and every word of it is sumptuous. I think you’d love it
at 5:00 pm
The long Winter is such a good book!