Three Things
A 15-minute meal, silent heroes in food history, easy dinner party starter
Good morning readers and eaters! I don’t know about you, but the snowstorm and cold snap up in New York gave me just the excuse I needed to binge on Cheer (Season 2, so good, I wept!); The Bureau (not sure how, as a huge fan of Fauda, Borgen, and Nobel, I just discovered the 2015 French spy series); and old episodes of The Office because I heard producer-writer Michael Schur interviewed on Tim Ferris and his stories about TV writing absolutely blew my mind. What else? Parents of littles: I reviewed a bunch of biographical picture books about influential women in food and particularly loved Sweet Justice by Mara Rockliff and illustrated by Caldecott nominee R. Gregory Christie (above), which tells the story of Georgia Gilmore, an unsung hero of the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott. Lastly, I’d be remisss if I didn’t mention that Forbes named The Weekday Vegetarians one of the best books to keep you inspired in the kitchen this year. (Hooray for …