Here are the Stories, which I am collectively calling Food of Life:
- Always Make a Good Impression – my take on how school lunches are not up to snuff
- Bait – a somewhat disgusting story about dog food that I eat
- Bloody Good Times – an even more disgusting story that is really, really funny (because it is at someone else’s expense)
- Caribbean Fare – exotic food in an exotic location
- Gingerbread – Of Men, Woman, Houses and Godzilla – the story of how gingerbread has been woven throughout my life
- Gone But Not Forgotten – my never-ending search for the perfect peanut butter cookie and carrot cake
- Guavas – probably the singular most amazing food experience of my life
- How to Satisfy My Hunger – how PB&Js and simple eggs and bacon filled my stomach and soul
- Lots of Lime – how to not be an alcoholic
- Nothing Like the First Time – the story about the meringue cookies that started my baking career.
- Of Seashells and Cake – how two foods were intertwined with my childhood
- Omelets – how my dad and I both learned to cook
- Paris and Champagne – a story of Champagne, Champagne and more Champagne
- A Pizza Education – I had good intentions when I took my kids to four pizzerias in one day. Don’t call social services.
- Poolside Dining – have you ever gone swimming in wine? I have – to be posted
- Rose and the Pinecone – the story of how Rose Levy Beranbaum and I became lifelong friends
- Shelter Island – the best part is below the surface
- Summer Love – an ode to best friendship
- That’s Not Hot Cocoa in That Mug – just read it and be happy that it isn’t you
- The Innocence of Shirley Temples – the French always have a different take on things
- Can I Have a Tuna Fish Sandwich, Please? – how an American staple can represent so much
- Tunnels of Fudge – how a boxed-cake mix informed me and my baking career
- A Vegetarian Among Us – a story of my trip at age 18 to Paris and the delightful food I discovered
- You Feed Them What? – a story of raw beef muscle and organs and all sorts of other lovely tidbits