What are you reading?

[betsuni]

28. Ruth Reichl, "Garlic and Sapphires, The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise"

Interesting, about her time as the NYT food critic, but then she brings up her mother and I think, Oh no, here we go. I enjoyed all of her memoirs but she obsesses too much about her parents, especially her mother. Luckily she doesn't go on too much in this one. If you are David Sedaris, fine, tell me all about your dysfunctional family, otherwise, please do not.

I finally bought a copy of "What's the Matter with Kansas?" -- time for a reread. And for the season, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow":

"As Ichabod jogged slowly on his way, his eye, ever open to every symptom of culinary abundance, ranged with delight over the treasure of jolly autumn. On all sides he beheld vast store of apples; some hanging in oppressive opulence on the treas; some gathered into baskets and barrels for the market; others heaped up in rich piles for the cider-press. Farther on he beheld great fields of Indian corn, with its golden ears peeping form their leafy coverts, and holding out the promise of cakes and hasty-pudding; and the yellow pumpkins lying beneath them, turning up their fair round bellies to the sun, and giving ample prospects of the most luxurious of pies; and anon he passed the fragrant buckwheat fields breathing the odor of the beehive, and as he beheld them, soft anticipations stole over his mind of dainty slapjacks, well buttered, and garnished with honey or treacle, by the delicate little dimpled hand of Katrina Van Tassel."