false 12 227 179 true 5663465 read 6 true 3643889 currently-reading 42 true 3643888 to-read 0 false 4177071 to-the-lighthouse http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/103738-southwestern-chat Jenny made a comment in the What's Cookin' group:

I have started baking Christmas cookies and made two kinds of gingerbread and some rich chocolate cookies. I have dough for in the fridge for some sugar cookies. I will make more through the week and weekend. Sunday, 12/20 I have to make my deliveries to the people who bought my Christmas cookies in the church auction.

We celebrate a lot of holidays (when you mix Southern, Southwestern, and Jewish traditions with Polish Catholic) and so eat a lot of holiday foods. Some time during, or near, Hannukkah we will have my father's latkes. Christmas Eve we will be with my husbands family having some kind of baked pasta. Christmas Day will be at home with ham, sweet potatoes, a green vegetable, corn bread, and maybe mashed potatoes. Desert might be cookies or apple pie with ice cream. Some time during the week after Christmas we will have tamales, which were my family's Christmas Eve dinner. New Year's Eve is ruebens and New Year's Day is black eyed pea soup with the last of the Christmas ham left overs.

Jenny ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79980778 The Savage Detectives (Hardcover) by Roberto Bolaño
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]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/204205-food-writing-recommendations Jenny made a comment in the What's Cookin' group:

I love to read Laurie Colwin's books Home Cooking and More Home Cooking. To me, they are like visiting with a friend who loves to cook and tell stories. Her recipe for creamed spinach with jalapenos is very good, as is the gingerbread, and like her, I am a fan of eggplant and peppers cooked in olive oil with garlic and eaten out of the pan. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78035009 to: The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback) by Muriel Barbery
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I found this book much more readable and engaging than What is the What. At the same time, this is a much more disturbing book because it reveals just how fragile the freedoms that we take for granted as American citizens really are.

This is a powerful book about the aftermath of Katrina and an indictment of Bush era anti-terrorism policy. ]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74875301 to: The Uses And Abuses Of History (Hardcover) by Margaret MacMillan
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