"Food is beautiful. Food is nourishing and delicious and, yes, complicated. However, food should be a joy, not elicit fear." ...

All it took to breeze through three-and-a-half books was a week spent in a rustic cabin on Mt. Hood accompanied by a spate of cooler-than...

Civil Eats, which I like to think of as a national version of Good Stuff NW (ahem…), has just put out its summer reading list of books a...

"If home is where the heart is and if we’re all drawn to home, why do we feel so unrooted? Tell me what your notion of home is. Tell...

Memoir. History. Love story. Ecological screed. A meditation on our place in nature. Astute political analysis. Even some murder and mayh...

No, in case, after reading this post's title, you're thinking, "Whaaaaat?"…Henry David never went to Alaska. (Just want...

Several years ago, so long ago, in fact, that the internet was in its infancy—if the browser names Mosaic and Netscape Navigator ring any...

Meandering through narrow cobblestone streets past shop windows piled with local pastries, sitting in cafés watching the locals exchange ...

When I was growing up the closest thing to a leafy green vegetable on my dinner plate was iceberg lettuce drowned with our family recipe ...

Hello. My name is Kathleen and I love books. A few years ago I heard someone say that they never traveled without a "flood book....

Enumerating the benefits of owning dogs has been done to death. Companionship, protection, even exercise are obvious. But incidental advant...

Unfortunately I haven't yet had that life, but at least I can read about someone who has. This is the well-reviewed and much talked abou...