Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader plus In the Company of Others
Nov 18, 2010
Jan Karon’s Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader
Recipes from Mitford Cooks, Favorite Tales from Mitford Books
Author: Jan Karon
Edited: Martha McIntosh
Publisher: Penguin
Publication Date: September 28, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-14-311817-6
This is a delightful idea! Jan Karon has written a series of books based in North Carolina and they all have wonderful food surrounding the story lines. I have reviewed several books that have recipes at the end of chapters or in the back of the book, but this is the first cookbook to come out of a series of stories that I have seen.
Each recipe come with a short excerpt from the book and chapter it was first mentioned in and then there’s also often a little paragraph or two from Jan herself on the recipe. I love a cookbook you can read at the same time as learning to create a new meal.
Being a good southern recipe book, you have everything from making fish stock to spoon bread, to one of my morning staples when I’m running late – a Banana and Peanut Butter Sandwich!
This is a lovely addition to your kitchen shelf……and once the meal is in the oven and cooking, you can sit down and read more of the stories!
This book is coming out in conjunction with Jan Karon’s second novel in the Father Tim Mitford Series!
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In the Company of Others
Author: Jan Karon
Publisher: Viking (Penguin)
Publication Date: October, 2010
ISBN: 978-0-142-42840-5
This second book in the Father Tim series has the Father and his wife, Cynthia, taking a long awaited “honeymoon” to Ireland. This is a gentle book in the spirit of Maeve Binchy – a little bit of excitement but the majority of the book is the fleshing out of the characters and their lives. Father Tim can’t help but get himself involved in a generations long squabble between two families – he hopes to resolve years of bad feelings. Even on vacation he’s a councelor of souls at heart.
There are adventures such as finding a journal written 100 years before exposing a hidden crime in the village, and there’s a break-in where the Father and Cynthia are staying, resulting in Cynthia re-injuring an ankle, but mostly it’s a nice pleasant book filled with interesting character building.
In a statement from Karon herself through Penguin, she abides by her strong believe that readers crave wholesome stories about love, family and community. If this is what you would like to read – here’s the perfect book for you.
