Kitchen Table

This book examines the history of health, diet, and nutrition with a particular focus on the issue of decreasing food security in places where once-stable food webs have suffered radical shock, as have the cultures of human communities, which have always been interdependent with now-endangered food sources.

Any of us who reads Orangette knows that Molly Wizenberg can write. Her new book, A Homemade Life, is personal and touching and clever. The book is a series of delightful vignettes that align biographical anecdotes with recipes. While her stories are interesting and her recall of charming details is impressive, it is really the shape and rhythm and choice of words that won me over so completely.

A collection of 16 favourite every day family recipes made with whole foods, packed with fruit and veggies (and rarely with salt or sugar) that just happen to be free from gluten and dairy.