Our family doesn’t celebrate the religious holiday but boy do we love Easter eggs, egg decorating and egg hunts. Lil and I like to prepare for holidays by reading legends and picture books. The four Easter books we found at our local library weave egg stories in a delightful way that would brighten any...
Read more →Valentine’s Day is a moment to tell those we love how much they mean to us. Our family likes to get into the loving spirit by reading picture books. Our favorite stories have beautiful illustrations and themes about companionship and friendship. Books say things that we sometimes can’t put into words. They start conversations...
Read more →The homestead is bustling like an elf shop these days with gift wrapping, cooking, hosting gatherings and attending others. We like to read holiday books and watch videos during the down time to get excited for the big day coming. Here are five we like this year: 1) Hanukkah at Valley Forge by Stephen...
Read more →We love to prepare for holidays by reading books with Lil. Good Thanksgiving picture books are a little hard to come by because so many perpetuate myths about Native Americans. This year we are enjoying these food and family focused stories: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving by Louisa May Alcott with illustrations by James Bernadin A...
Read more →1) Amy Turn Sharp’s essay Teeth Never Die nibbled it’s way into my head and required re-reading after Lil lost her first tooth this week. Amy’s is no parenting prattle but a trip down a twisted memory lane. 2) In Op Ed: The Raw and the Deep-Fried, Bear of Slow Food Columbus elevates a...
Read more →Last month I devoured three accounts from fellow female real-food lovers. I read Kristin Kimball’s The Dirty Life, The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker and How to Eat a Small Country by Amy Finley. Each was part inspiration, part ‘what not to do’ and thoroughly enjoyable. Finley’s How to Eat a Small Country is...
Read more →On Monday I had the pleasure of interviewing Joan Dye Gussow, keynote speaker for this weekend’s Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association annual conference. A matriarch of the local food and organic movements, our discussion largely related to her most recent book, Growing, Older: A Chronicle of Death, Life, and Vegetables. Rachel Tayse Baillieul:...
Read more →Two years ago at the Wild Goose Creative New Years celebration, Allison from Igloo Letterpress taught me an imminently useful skill: how to fold a four page booklet from a single piece of paper. Since then, I have transformed paper into books for Lil to make into dinner menus, sticker stories, and hand drawn...
Read more →This fall, Lillian happened upon the book Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven at one of our wonderful library branches. The story tells of a town of animals depressed by the winter cold. The baker, a long eared dog, creates a loaf of bright yellow rich and warm sun bread. The animals eat it to...
Read more →When I started this blog, other local food bloggers welcomed me into their fold like pioneers seeking friendly companions on the new frontier. We read and comment on each others’ work and pass around opportunities and news. We give each other link love and retweets, assets barely defined a mere two years ago. So...
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