Teaser Tuesday: The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese

But to condemn Camembert makers for wanting to change the recipe because they're "all about profit" is to condemn them for being traditional. No one in the history of Camembert has ever labored to make the cheese simply for the sheer joy of hard work.

 -- The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese by Kathe Lison.  I want to read this for the 2013 Foodies Read Challenge!

 The cover on mine, above, may be the ARC cover, because I got my copy from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program. The official cover looks like this:



Both are cool, but I prefer the ARC. Which cover do you like better?


Teaser Tuesdays is hosted by Should Be Reading, where you can find the official rules for this weekly event. 

Happy Memorial Day!

Mailbox Memorial Day

Thanks for joining me for Mailbox Monday this holiday weekend! MM was created by Marcia, who graciously hosted it for a long, long time, before turning it into a touring event (details here).

Abi at 4 the Love of Books is hosting in May. Please visit her fun, inspirational blog.

I got two books last week:



Full-Rip 9.0: The Next Big Earthquake in the Pacific Northwest by Sandi Doughton, published by Sasquatch Books. This is a terrifying, if accurate, explanation of why Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver are the urban centers of what will be the biggest earthquake -- a mega-quake -- in the continental United States.



The Story of Edgar Sawtelle by David Wroblewski. I was in Dufur, Oregon last week for work and found this on the Take One/Leave One shelf at the charming and historic Balch Hotel.

Kitchen Remodel, Week Thirteen: A Place to Sit

Another week has gone by with no visible progress on the kitchen.  Apparently the hold up is the tile.  Even though it is plain white subway tile, because we ordered a slightly less-ordinary dimension (2x6 instead of 3x6), it has to be custom made. But because we need very little of it, our order has been sitting there waiting to tag onto a larger order when it comes in.

So we wait.  In the meantime, the two kitchen stools we ordered for the island came in.  So we can sit in the kitchen and imagine it being finished and usable.

We saw these stools made out of old wine barrels at Syncline Winery in Lyle, WA (about an hour northeast of Portland).  I like them because they are unusual and made here in America.

By happenstance, because I had no idea what it was about until I read it, I read a book this week about cooking and the comfort of good food.  Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize for The Road Home, the story of an Eastern European immigrant to England who teaches himself to be a chef while working as the plongeur at a toney London restaurant.

WEEKEND COOKING

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Book Beginnings: The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese by Kathe Lison

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MY BOOK BEGINNING

The blade of Napoleon's sword scythed air redolent of roasted meat as the man who would one day be emperor severed at the top of the cheese before him.

 -- The Whole Fromage: Adventures in the Delectable World of French Cheese by Kathe Lison.  She starts the book with the apocryphal story of Napoleon refusing to eat a pyramid-shaped cheese after his defeat in Egypt.

What a fun choice for the 2013 Foodies Read Challenge!

It looks like the cover on mine, above, may be the ARC cover, because I got my copy from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program. The official cover looks like this:



Both are cool. Which cover do you like better?