Hello Everyone,
I will be spending a few weeks in California this summer; I can already feel the (dry) sun on my back! While there, I will be giving two readings. On Thursday, July 30, I will be reading at Village Books in the Pacific Palisades, at 7:30 pm, and the following week I will be reading on Thursday, August 6, at Book Passage in the Ferry Building of San Francisco at 6:00 pm. I would love to meet any and all of my California readers. Come on down!
Hope you’re having a wonderful summer,Adrienne
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Hi Everyone,
To all my readers in the Nutmeg State, I will be appearing at RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT, Monday evening June 15, with fellow memoirist, Giullia Melucci. Later that same week, on Saturday June 20, at 2 pm, I will also be at the Yale Barnes and Noble. Both events are free to the public, and I will be reading, and signing my book. Come on down, I would love to meet you!
In other news… Do you compost? Well, I didn’t. That is until my friend, and fellow writer, Jude Stewart wrote a detailed article, rating composters, and needed copious amounts of food scraps. She turned to me, and I quickly realized I make a lot of reusable trash. You can read her article here, and if you are in the market for a state-of-the-art composter, she just may have [...]

Do you know Sarah McColl? She is the author of the exquisite blog Pink of Perfection. Her blog has a little bit of everything: food, crafting, shopping, and living, all written in Sarah’s breezy style. Well, she was nice and enough to do a profile about me. I answered a few of her thought-provoking questions, about the book, writing, and cooking. Click on over, to read a little more. Thanks Sarah!
In other news, a few weeks back I did an interview (also book-related), with Evan Kleinman, the host of LA’s Good Food, on KCRW, their NPR affiliate. The segment aired over the weekend. Give a listen, to hear a bit more!
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I realize that I remain rather anonymous to all of my blog readers– well, no more! Yesterday I did a segment on Connecticut Style, a local show that airs from WTNH, the local ABC affiliate, right here in New Haven. Now you all know that Connecticut is highly regarded for its style…Christmas sweater anyone? I’m kidding!
Connecticut Style is a nice, weekday program, hosted by Sonia Baghdady and Desiree Fontaine, featuring local guests from all walks of life, with a cooking segment virtually every day. They were nice enough to let me come on the program, talk about my book, and cook a piece of fish. But I wasn’t the only guest…my segment followed an interview with Marshmallow the therapy dog, a fluffy Bichon Frisé (with a headshot, to boot) and his owner, Paul Rothberg.
Here’s my clip:

If you want to see Marshmallow, you have to visit Connecticut Style!
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February 10th will forever be a birthday of sorts. The birthday of my book. What does one do in celebration? Surely it will be different than birthday parties of yore, with the meal of my choosing, a round of duck-duck-goose, and an angel food birthday cake heaped with clouds of loosely whipped cream. A birthday party seems a bit premature. But a little birthday cake—a cupcake—was just the right thing with which say, I’m thrilled.

There is a settling immediacy to blogging. One writes, posts, and puts it out there, for all of the world to see. But it is different with a book. With a book you write, send it in, and then you wait. Wait for comments from your editor, who shows it to her team of people. You edit, she edits, you read, and reread, write some more, [...]

The drop date for the book is quickly approaching. I can hardly believe it is almost here! I have started a Cooking and Screaming web page to let all of you know what’s new with the book. (As it turns out, that page is pretty barren now, but more is surely to come.)
In the meantime, you will find an excerpt from Chapter 1, with a recipe included. Every chapter begins with a recipe as a way of getting to the meat (pun intended) of the story. I will be updating this page as I have more information to share about the book.
There is also a link to the new Simon and Schuster web page, complete with me (nervously) answering a few match.com-like questions. Don’t you just love the internet? Check it out!
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No, this is not simply a forgetful phrase uttered to myself one too many times. It is also a name of a new book, edited by Andrea Buchanan of which I was honored to be a part. Speaking with Andrea, she told me a little bit about her project. It was a collection of personal essays by women, for women, discussing a defining moment in their life, the moment that so many of us grapple with, fight against, that makes us stronger, more well-rounded, empathetic individuals. I, of course, was thrilled to even be asked, and got to work. And now, almost one year later, the book is here.

The one thing that I have learned from my experiences, no matter how minute, in the publishing industry, is there is a lot of hurrying-up-then-waiting. There are deadlines, emails passed back and forth, more deadlines, proofs, [...]

And by this I mean: I don’t know how I got invited to a Martha Stewart event, but I did. Way up on the the 36th floor of some giant midtown skyscraper, there I stood with about 60 other people, some of them Martha’s minions, to celebrate Martha’s new interview show on Sirius Satellite Radio. Oh, and Jean-Georges was there too.
How did I get invited to such a function, you ask? Well, I’m as clueless as you are. One day about a week ago, I opened my inbox and there it was, an electronic invitation (not quite an Evite) beckoning me to attend a recording of Martha and J.-G. chattin’ it up on the radio. Cocktail attire was not stressed, however hors-d’oeuvres would be served from J.-G.’s restaurant, Vong. So I though to myself, washing my hair can wait for another evening. I’m game to snack on crispy spring rolls, [...]

Back in September I entered a contest through Food and Wine Magazine. It was a an online, food photo contest. So I sent off one of my favorite pictures from this site, a picture of a frozen treat, cooling yoghurt and strawberry pops. Made back in July, they were some of the last confections put together in my old kitchen in California. Well, look closely, in the bottom, left-hand corner of the gallery of pictures from FoodAndWine.com.
I never win anything! Seriously. No trips to Cancun, no new washers and dryers, and certainly not the Lotto. (Because if I did, it’s hard for me to say if I would be toiling away in front of my computer, and not lounging about on a lush, tropical island.) And while I did not win this food photo contest, I did win honorable mention. This means my photo is on display on the site. [...]