Tod Davies has written a memoir overflowing with food. Every page of Jam Today recounts a meal or an ingredient, in a lively, readable style that makes you want to run out plant a garden, fill a market basket, and start cooking. No recipes, though, and that's the point. If you know what you're doing, you don't really need them.
However, for all its good intentions (that nourishing yourself and loved ones can change the world) Jam Today reads rather like a series of posts by a wordy blogger; it's like listening to a particularly chatty guest at a boring dinner party, or like watching a babbling host on the Food Channel. Your mileage may vary, but for Cornichon, at least, a small taste was plenty.
Davies reads from her book tomorrow at 7 PM at the University Bookstore and Thursday at 5 PM at 5 PM at Pilot Books on Broadway.
Posted by Ronald Holden at September 15, 2009 12:14 PM
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