Elizabeth Gilbert falls in love with great-grandmother's rich cooking legacy
Thu, 17 May 2012 22:10:50 -0700
FRENCHTOWN, N.J. — Elizabeth Gilbert is standing at her stove, stirring flour into melted butter, attempting a simple white sauce for the base of an oyster bisque. As she slowly adds the milk, just as directed in the recipe, the sauce clumps. “I don’t know about this, I’ve never made a white sauce before,” she says, stirring furiously to smooth out the lumps.
Book review: 'At Home on the Range' by Margaret Yardley Potter
Sun, 13 May 2012 00:14:22 -0700
The cookbook has been republished after an initial run in 1947, and her great-granddaughter Elizabeth Gilbert ('Eat Pray Love') reintroduces Potter in the forward. The cookbook is insightful and funny, weaving together practical advice and recipes. At Home on the Range
My own private ‘Eat, Pray, Love’
Thu, 03 May 2012 22:17:30 -0700
KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 — “But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months … to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? … And then to do it again the next day?” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, “Eat, Pray, Love” EAT/Napoli, September 2002 This is the most alarmingly tasty slice ...
Fragrance-filled adventure in Bali
Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:59:11 -0700
Elizabeth Gilbert’s memoir ‘Eat, Pray, Love,’ adapted into a film with Julia Roberts starring, made Bali a site for soul-searching.
Harry Potter publisher Bloomsbury boosted by e-books
Tue, 22 May 2012 11:22:21 -0700
Bloomsbury, the book publisher behind the Harry Potter novels, has seen annual revenue rise, aided by e-book sales of titles from chefs Heston Blumenthal and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and its growing ...