Food For Thought Book Club meets at 6:30pm on the last Wednesday of every month at Garfield Book Company in Tacoma, WA. We discuss books, share recipes, and watch cooking demonstrations. We encourage anyone to share their cooking and food stories, recipes or tips with us here!
If you would like more information about the Food For Thought bookclub please email Brianne at sorensbk@plu.edu.
I am sorry it has taken me so long to post another blog entry. Things are in full swing here at the store due to school starting. However, I have not forgotten about my beloved book club!
I am enjoying reading Hungry Monkey so far. It makes me laugh out loud several times a chapter. Below is the link to his blog Roots and Grub:
His blog is just as entertaining as his book. You can catch up on what him and Iris are doing lately.
Does anyone have a favorite part of Hungry Monkey that you would like to share? What about the moms in our group...what was your child's first solid food?
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.
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/
"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."
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?
Doug must think we have been eating too many sweets and suguars because tomorrow he will be making us one of the most nutritional meals you can have. The best part is it as meal for both vegetarians, vegans, and can be altered for meat lovers. We will be having quinoa! Now if you anything like me, your probably thinking to yourself…what is that? I did a little research and it sounds like it should be both a delicious and nutritious meal!
What is Quinoa?!?
We usually think of quinoa as a grain, but it is actually the seed of a plant. These amino acid-rich seeds are not only very nutritious, but also very delicious. Cooked quinoa seeds are fluffy and creamy, yet slightly crunchy. They have a delicate, somewhat nutty flavor.
History
While relatively new to the United States, quinoa has been cultivated in the Andean mountain regions of Peru, Chile and Bolivia for over 5,000 years, and it has long been a staple food in the diets of the native Indians. The Incas considered it a sacred food and referred to it as the "mother seed."
Nutritional Value
Not only is quinoa high in protein, but the protein it supplies is complete protein, meaning that it includes all nine essential amino acids. Not only is quinoa's amino acid profile well balanced, making it a good choice for vegans concerned about adequate protein intake, but quinoa is especially well-endowed with the amino acid lysine, which is essential for tissue growth and repair. In addition to protein, quinoa features a host of other health-building nutrients. Because quinoa is a very good source of manganese as well as a good source of magnesium, iron, copper and phosphorus, this "grain" may be especially valuable for persons with migraine headaches, diabetes and atherosclerosis.
All the information above and much much more can be found on the website below:
We will be making quinoa with bell peppers, onions, garlic, and to complete this perfect dish: goat cheese! For those of you who like to have a little meat with your meal we will be offering pork loin on the side.The pork loin should make an excellent contribution to the dish, if desired of course.
I hope this has made you excited for our meeting tomorrow. We will be meeting at 6:30pm.
It's a new month which means a new read! The author of The Butcher and the Vegetarian, Tara Austen Weaver, has a blog just like Molly. It is called Tea and Cookies (http://teaandcookies.blogspot.com/). If you have time I would definitely check her blog out. We unfortunately, could not get Weaver to visit us so reading her blog along with the book will give you a good insight into her voice and personality. There is also ALOT ALOT of recipes to check out.
Food For Thought is a book club at Garfield Book Company in Tacoma, WA. At each meeting we will discuss wonderful books, exchange recipes, meet interesting people, watch cooking demonstrations, and best of all, eat! We meet the last Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm.
If you would like more information about the Food For Thought please contact Brianne at sorensbk@plu.edu.
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