The Book Club Has Spoken

Good Afternoon!

I had the best time yesterday with all of you! I hope you enjoyed the treat bags, teacups, and seeing Forza, some of you for the first time. I really think the tea party was a special treat...I mean did you see the napkins?!? :)

As promised I have tallied up your votes and the results are below:
We actually had a 3-way tie for First Place:

• The Sharper the Knife the Less You Cry (4Votes)
  

• Cooking Dirty(4 Votes)
  

• How to Cook a Dragon (4 Votes)
  

Second Place:

• My Life From Scratch (3 Votes)

Third Place:

• Comfort Me With Apples (2 Votes)

• Farm City (2 Votes)

• Under the Table (2 Votes)

• I Loved, I Lost, and I made Spaghetti (2 Votes)

Fourth Place:

• Julie and Julia (1 Vote)

• Billionaire's Vinegar (1 Vote)

Because there were so many ties it is not going to make choosing titles any easier for Lindy and I :) Nonetheless, I am glad I got to see what you would like to read and what direction we should go in terms of themes, genre, food, etc.

If you have any book suggestions that you forgot to write down yesterday please leave a comment and let me know.

Attention: Jenny, Emily, Doug, Madison, and Brianne. I am really looking forward to going to Delancey with you. If I have not contacted you first, please contact me about ride arrangements.

You Are Royally Invited To...

A Tea Party!

I hope you are enjoying The History of the World in Six Glasses. Six Glasses really is an eye opening look into how influential food and drink can be for people, culture, history, economy, art, music, literature....anything really! I can tell our meeting will be a fun conversation about all the interesting facts we never knew we were missing out on.


We had a very hard time narrowing down a beverage to feature for our next meeting. The possibilities are endless! Lindy, Doug, and my conversation went like this:

Doug: We could do coffee....

Lindy: Oh yes I love coffee...

Me: But what about cucumber sandwiches and tea!

Doug and Lindy: ooooohhhhh...

Lindy:but COFFEE!!!!


This is the abridged version of course. Nonetheless, the choice was hard and I am sure we will revisit Doug's wonderful suggestion for Turkish coffee. We went with a tea party because we wanted to do something a little bit more swanky. Yes swanky!



We are inviting you to an official upscale tea party. You are invited to dress up and look sophisticated enough to sip tea like the English. One of the many traditions done at tea parties is wearing BIG CRAZY HATS! If you have a big hat in the back of your closest that you wouldn't dare wear in public, then please dust it off and bring it. Or, if you have a elegantly beautiful hat that has no practical place in your everyday life, then please come show it off. I would like to mention this is optional. This is just our idea of switching things up from our regular book club meetings. However, I know that dressing up is not for everyone so the bottom line is come in what is comfortable for you.










Another reason why this meeting is extra special is a surprise awaits you at the beginning of the evening. Also, there is a rumor floating around that there will be some wonderful take home gifts at our tea party. After all, what is a party without party favors.


Doug will be serving tea from a local tea company called Mad Hat. Doug will tell us all about their tea and company, but if you would like to here is their website: http://www.madhattea.com/

I Ate This

"In the unconscious mind, food equals love because food is our deepest and earliest connection with our caretakers. So it makes sense that people would want to capture, collect, catalog, brag about and show off their food."

Hello Fellow Foodies,

At our last meeting Linda gave me a great article about people who are just as crazy about food as we are. The article is titled Photo ops the Main Course for Serious Food Diarists. Essentially it is about people who take pictures of their food and post the pictures on the internet. It is not an uncommon thing, in fact it is very popular. It also is a glaringly truthful look into your eating habits and who you are as a person. After all, they say you are what you eat.

The article states that "the number of pictures tagged 'food' on the photo-sharing Web site Flickr has increased tenfold to more than 6 million in the last two years" and "'I Ate This' includes more than 300,00 photos that have been contributed by more than 19,000 members."

There are also a number of websites designed to fuel this type of photo diary phenomenon. Websites like http://www.foodspotting.com/, http://chowhound.chow.com/boards, and http://www.foodcandy.com/ are great resources if you would like to begin a food diary. Who knows I may look into it and begin posting our food pictures.

Thanks again Linda for the article! It is nice to see that there are people out there who love eating and sharing food as much as we do.

We're Going to Delancey

Hi Everyone,

Molly was very excited to hear that we are interested in coming to Delancey. She asked for possible dates so she can check the reservation availability.

I'm thinking that a weekend would be best...Saturday maybe? Would any of these dates work for you:

• Saturday August 14th

• Saturday August 28th

Please reply ASAP so I can get back to Molly. Also, any volunteers for carpool?

Looking forward to it!