Earthly Delights

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Coming soon: Guest blogger Ginny Buccelli will be reviewing food-related books!

And, a treat for streaming video fans and food lovers alike: a new food website, foodtube.net. The thought of hours of various videos of cooking, prepping, etc. remind me of my days in adolescence when I took macrobiotic cooking classes in a stranger's condo, and how I loved watching the mirror above her cutting boards and countertops while she described how to make macrobiotic oatmeal cookies; and all the hours spent on couches from Olympia, WA to Los Angeles, CA, happily watching cooking shows on public broadcasting stations on warm, lazy Saturday afternoons. With video recipes from around the world, foodtube.net is sure to be entertaining and delish!

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Absinthe Brasserie and Bar on Saturday night: loud, brassy, sexy. Skipped the parsnip puree and French onion soup (next time, next time) for the spicy fried chickpeas, warm marinated mixed olives with citrus, toasted garlic and cinnamon and cured meats. Yes to the grilled dayboat scallops, celery root purée, Brussels sprouts, mustard oil, and rosemary salt and yes to the kick the mustard oil gave it all. Buttery, buttery scallops. It was sad to see each one, plump, sliced in half, then gone. Gone! Our lips wet with a little red wine. The night another pleasure in a sea of pleasures.

::Edible Book Tea Party in Studio City::

3rd annual event at the Studio City Library Saturday April 5th, 2:30- 4 pm
** Free **
12511 Moorpark Street
(818)755-7873 for more information
"You can toast your favorite author with toast, cook up a tribute to a book you love, honor a cheesy romance with cheese, and literally digest a nursery rhyme, a mystery, a famous poem or The Great American Novel. Enjoy refreshments and admire the culinary tributes until 3:30 when prizes will be awarded. Anyone can create a book to eat"
(you must supply an ingredients list with nuts, milk, and wheat first)

Cook the Books on hiatus for '08

From Frybooks & Cook the Books!:

Hello Dearest Edible Friends -

We have a new web address which replaces the typepad one so PLEASE adjust your links -
www.frybooks.com

We have a marvelous Flickr page of all your fabulous past entries
http://www.flickr.com/photos/frybooks/

Alas, due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, Cook the Books! will be on hiatus for 2008.
We intend to return in 2009 with a new sponsor and location. Please keep in touch, sorry to disappoint.

Farewell for now and don't be a stranger!

Yours in frosting with sprinkles,
Frybooks