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• Homeless encampments are on the ballot in Arizona. Could California, other states follow?
• Saka Saka: Adventures in African Cooking, South of the Sahara
• Food recalls reach highest level since the pandemic. Undeclared allergens are the biggest reason for the rise
• Jessica Ferri, owner of Womb House Books, shares the panels she’s most excited about at the 2024 Festival of Books
• The week’s bestselling books, April 28
• Food52 Simply Genius: Recipes for Beginners, Busy Cooks & Curious People
• Delectable: Sweet & Savory Baking
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He is not aware that his eldest son, Marshall, is being physically andsexually abused by his tutor, an Englishman named Mr. Waters. This turnsMarshall into an unpleasant and temperamental child, and one day, heaccidentally causes the death of his younger sister, Sally. Martha Pyke,already depressed because of her husband’s frequent excursions, is furtherdevastated at this loss—even the birth of another son, Campbell, does nothingto assuage her grief.

Homeless encampments are on the ballot in Arizona. Could California, other states follow?

Soon after Sally’s death, Captain Pyke sends Marshall to Williamsburg tostudy. Meanwhile, he, Miss Martha, and baby Campbell go to Philadelphia tovisit Martha’s parents. Unfortunately, Campbell contracts yellow fever anddies. Miss Martha and Captain Pyke return to the estate, with the captain’shealth failing. Marshall returns to the estate as well, on a visit. He is stillmean-tempered, however, and because he believes Belle to be his father’smistress, brutally rapes her.

Saka Saka: Adventures in African Cooking, South of the Sahara

But I thought it was a clever technique for this story and it was well done. Grisson allows Lavinia to narrate the majority of the story with Belle’s chapters being only a few pages in length. Lavinia’s voice changes as she matures to adulthood and Belle is able to give the reader adult insight into relationships and the motivations behind other character’s actions. We definitely love vintage paperbacks, which we set out in wine crates like records so people can flip through them, cover to cover. I think we’re looking for all the different ways the human experience is interpreted and expressed, and we look to provide a wide variety of ways people communicate those experiences in print.

Food recalls reach highest level since the pandemic. Undeclared allergens are the biggest reason for the rise

Or if they do, the results are always less than stellar. That’s why I was so excited to read through Brian Levy’s “Good & Sweet” dedicated to baking with no refined sweeteners. Photographer Andrea Gentl might best be known for her images — lush, award-winning pictures of food, chefs and faraway places. She’s also an avid cook, and “Cooking With Mushrooms” is the first cookbook she has written (definitely not the first she has photographed).

Jessica Ferri, owner of Womb House Books, shares the panels she’s most excited about at the 2024 Festival of Books

This results in a pregnancy, and Captain Pykedies before he ever found out it was his son who raped Belle. From heart-pounding thrillers to poignant memoirs and everything in between, check out what's new this month. Get a FREE ebook by joining our mailing list today!

The week’s bestselling books, April 28

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been standing in my kitchen, feeling snacky and wishing I had just one cookie or one piece of something sweet to nibble on. So when my friend Edd Kimber came out with “Small Batch Bakes,” dedicated to baking small amounts of sweet treats, I nearly doubled over with joy. His single chocolate chip cookie was the first thing that snared me, seeing just a few tablespoons of sugar, flour and chocolate morph into a single perfect cookie that you can eat warm from the oven and with no need for sharing. From there, I made his cinnamon bun slices, which give you the perfect amount of cinnamon buns for a weekend alone, and his individual tarte tatins, which makes having a friend over for pizza and a movie way more special by the time you want dessert. I reach for this book most often when I have a handful of chocolate chips or a piece of fruit hanging around that I want to bake into a delicious treat for myself or to give to a friend. Maisonet tells stories that are visceral and transporting and occasionally provide glimpses into the interior lives of a daughter, mother and grandmother — generations linked through food.

Food52 Simply Genius: Recipes for Beginners, Busy Cooks & Curious People

While they stood there, the owner of the lot rolled up. In the kismet-filled conversation that followed, Buck agreed to buy the barren one-eighth-acre lot for $13,500, with $100 down and the seller maintaining the mortgage until the Stahls paid it off. A handshake later, the couple owned 1635 Woods Drive. On that site, they would construct Case Study House #22, designed by Pierre Koenig, arguably the most famous of all the houses in the famous Case Study program that Arts & Architecture magazine initiated in 1945. For generations of pilgrims, gawkers, architecture students, and midcentury-modern aficionados, it would be known simply as the Stahl House. Every page punches with color and style, every recipe is an invitation to stop taking yourself so seriously.

Delectable: Sweet & Savory Baking

Each page reads as deliciously if not more so than the next. Clarissa Wei writes about Taiwanese cuisine from a particularly interesting perspective — as both an Angeleno and a citizen of Taiwan. Her stance as both insider and outsider give agency and voice to the idea that “Taiwanese food isn’t a subset of Chinese food because Taiwan isn’t a part of China,” she writes. Make beef rolls, turkey rice, cucumber salad, noodle soups flecked with garlic chives and studded with shrimp. Let Wei’s pantry notes and step-by-step’s be your guide. The recipes and stories are a tour through the history and culture of Taiwan.

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“Simply West African,” by chef Pierre Thiam and Lisa Katayama, is a cookbook that radiates teranga, a word in Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal, that has no direct translation to English. It is, Thiam explains, something akin to joy and love, mixed with community. The first cookbook from Rintaro is by all means a tome. More than 70 recipes from the San Francisco izakaya are contextualized through memories and thorough explainers from Sylvan Mishima Brackett, the restaurant’s Kyoto-born, California-raised chef (who also happens to be a Chez Panisse alum). This is a dense yet still approachable dive into the world of Japanese cooking, with primers on dashi, breaking down whole fish for sashimi, coaxing maximum flavor from tofu and eggs, steaming the perfect donabe, and hand-forming fresh udon. His how-to on butchering a chicken for yakitori — and diagramming an array of possible skewers — is worth the purchase alone, and I say that as someone who spent months shadowing and spotlighting L.A.’s yakitori scene earlier this year.

Before hepassed the control of the estate to Marshall, Will buys Belle and her son,Jamie, as well as Ben, Lucy, and their kids to protect them from Marshall.Meanwhile, Marshall drinks heavily and warns Lavinia not to get too comfortablewith the slaves. He also kidnaps Jamie and regularly forces himself on Beattie,which results in two unwanted pregnancies. Even after giving birth to theirdaughter, Elle, Lavinia feels miserable and powerless to help the slaves, andturns to opium for comfort. With the captain’s death, Miss Marsha’s sister and her family, the Maddens,come up to the Pyke estate to bring Marsha to Williamsburg with them. Even as Lavinia grows to be a woman, she stilllongs to return to her family at Tall Oaks.

Most importantly, she says, “whenever possible, use these dishes to spark connection and community; for that is at the heart of food for me.” And “if you burn your tahdig on your first go-round, good job! ” Trial and error is essential to deepening your understanding of cooking, and of life. Adeena Sussman’s second cookbook, Shabbat, invites us to accompany her in preparing for the Jewish day of rest as she sees it. Inspired by Sabbath meals of her youth and by local chefs and home cooks, the recipes are sumptuous and imaginative. Friday night dinners might include fig and pomegranate brisket or sweet potatoes with miso tahini butter. For Saturday lunch you might be served jachnun or cauliflower hamin with shug-a-churri sauce.

Chewy and gooey, not too sweet, with crispy edges and a hint of salt are key characteristics that L.A. Cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger spice canned pumpkin in this classic Thanksgiving pie recipe. Blind-baking the crust ensures a crisp pastry to contrast the smooth custard filling. The Bookish Elf is your single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of literary life. The Bookish Elf is a site you can rely on for book reviews, author interviews, book recommendations, and all things books.

To revisit this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Danielle Dorsey is the assistant editor and writer of guides for the Food section. Previously, she was the senior West Coast editor at Thrillist, where she covered food, drink and travel across the California region. She grew up across San Diego and Riverside and has happily called Los Angeles home for more than 15 years.

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They shine a light on the best of what cookbooks can be. In her second cookbook, New York Times Cooking columnist Yewande Komolafe‘s 75 approachable recipes explore the West African cuisines that color Nigeria’s capital city of Lagos. Born in Berlin and raised in Lagos, Komolafe came to America for college, where she built her culinary resume while living as an undocumented immigrant for a decade. “My Everyday Lagos” weaves this history throughout, describing the struggles Komolafe encountered and the experience of returning to Lagos in 2016 after 18 years away from her homeland. Stock up your pantry with Komolafe’s dried spice blends, experiment with street foods like yam fritters or go all out with dishes meant to mark special occasions, like braised bone-in goat leg.