A food blog to follow, if you're not already following! :) Talented young Seattleite Lorna Yee.

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erininny

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Traca, I think you must know Lorna...

I used to read Lorna's posts about crafting baked goods and catering parties on eGullet, about five years ago, and I stumbled on her blog last night. She's an amazing artist, and it's so exciting to think that she's got a cookbook coming out next spring!

(Also, that Nutella-ricotta doughnuts post? Mouth-watering.) smileys/smile.gif

http://www.thecookbookchronicles.com/blog/

 
Seattlelite is correct. And Lorna's a friend of mine. Funny story...

Actually, I have a couple but my first Thanksgiving with these guys, I was invited to come along. Bring a dish. I sweated bullets and went through all my cookbooks trying to figure out what to bring. I arrive and 3 chefs from the top 10 restos in Seattle are there. No pressure! Then I get a look at Lorna's turkey. It's debonned, trimmed of the dark meat. They made forcemeat out of the dark meat and stuffed it back into the turkey. Uh! I'm happy with something edible, not a crazy creation like that. It was a beautiful thing.

Lorna and Henry have definitley raised the bar when it comes to home cooking. smileys/smile.gif

 
PS. I honestly don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful woman. Lorna is the epitome of

drop dead gorgeous. And she can cook! That's one talented lady.

 
So what did you bring? To me the dark meat is the best part of the turkey. Dang, now I'm in the

Mood for roast turkey!!

 
I brought 2 salads from the Herbfarm cookbook that totally got bypassed in favor of

brussel sprouts, heavy on the cream, pancetta, and bacon. My dishes were far too "healthy" in light of everything else on the table!

Apparently I brought a champagne that everyone liked.

When I came back the next year, I was determined to redeem myself! I can't remember what I made, but Lorna said it was the best dish they had that year. Victory!!

I'm still waiting for her to write about her bacon-wrapped bacon. Hmmm...maybe she'll bring that to my party tomorrow night. smileys/smile.gif (oh happy joy!)

 
How funny... I'm always craving salad at Thanksgiving. Someday its time will come! smileys/smile.gif

 
Funny thing about Lorna & the Food Network...she shot 2 episodes & in the end they said she looked

too young! Can you believe that????? Let's talk about colossal mistakes in TV. LOL!

 
In 2001 ebooks were infants. They're unsteady toddlers now. Still a long way to go. Few publishers

have the resources to invest in an ebook program when the readers (the machines, not you and me) still need a lot of work before they really catch on. Even people who *prefer* ebooks to paper books don't much like the current generation of readers, primary among them the Kindle and the Sony Reader. Once the machines are nicer to use, the ebooks will follow.

 
Definitely, Shaun... But from what I understood at BEA, most publishers are racing to get there.

Michael Tamblyn, of BookNetCanada, is one of the front-runners in trying to get publishers (big and little alike) to shift gears and adopt digital formats, in addition to print.

Now I feel compelled to make this post somehow related to food... smileys/wink.gif I ate at a 1950s diner today! They'd only been open for about ten days, but everything was fresh and the place sparkled. smileys/smile.gif Great fun.

 
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