Beyond recipes, the book imparts something of the spirit of Egypt itself. Adventurous cooks looking to broaden their repertoires will want to get a copy of Dyna Eldaief’s The Taste of Egypt: Home Cooking from the Middle East. Author... Read More

The book shows that the popularity of the cuisine is due, in part, to the fact that it was never strictly Chinese. Anne Mendelson’s Chow Chop Suey: Food and the Chinese American Journey is a thoughtful and absorbing study of how... Read More

This well-researched, effectively written, and highly readable guide to late-life depression deserves a wide audience. Deborah Serani, a doctor and the author of two previous books on depression, now covers twilight periods in... Read More

Omnivores are not left out of the new crop of cookbooks, and the focus in Farmette is on growing or buying the best quality ingredients from local sources. Author Imen McDonnell was a confirmed American urbanite before meeting her future... Read More

This unassuming instrument arrived in the American South with West African slaves in the 1600s and lifted the spirits of countless plantation gatherings right up till the time that thoroughly uncivil war put an end to legal enslavement.... Read More

To deepen their connection to and love of the natural world, naturalists, writers, and ordinary folk have long used journals to memorialize their observations from nature jaunts. The best definitions of such love include phrases like... Read More

This ghostwritten autobiography of an African American artist is reminiscent of Richard Wright or Maya Angelou. “Color theory says that black, the absence of all colors, matters; and that white, the presence of all colors, matters,”... Read More

At the center of Kelley’s story is a theme of peace and unity among diverging religions, as well as the eternal search for one’s purpose. Young Mekhaeil Zacharias may have escaped the beheadings that claimed the lives of his fellow... Read More