1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
There is no ramble I enjoy more creating than the last one of the year in which I am able to recognize the many people who contributed. Here's the list of people whose names appeared in 2008:
The Hired Belly comes from a long line of stocking stuffers. Literally. We never saw one of those pathetic red and white felt excuses for a stocking until much later in life. No siree! Our Christmas stockings were the real thing: nylon, which stretched to accommodate even the most voluminous and awkward shaped gift. And you can just imagine the rewards when tights came in. Those were exceptionally good years. Given the list of our suggested goodies, you may have to do the same.
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop, Mike McCardell, Harbour Publishing
Cookbooks might just be the perfect present. -- For the gift giver, especially.
The Hired Belly comes from a long line of stocking stuffers. Literally. We never saw one of those pathetic red and white felt excuses for a stocking until much later in life. No siree! Our Christmas stockings were the real thing: nylon, which stretched to accommodate even the most voluminous and awkward shaped gift. And you can just imagine the rewards when tights came in. Those were exceptionally good years. Given the list of our suggested goodies, you may have to do the same.
I can't think of a better Christmas gift for a cook -- beginner, amateur or skilled -- than The Genius of James Barber, His Best Recipes, just published by Harbour Publishing.
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop -- Mike McCardell
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop -- Mike McCardell
1. Getting to the Bubble: More Stories that Shimmer and Pop -- Mike McCardell
Having never watched even a droplet of sweat ooze out of an individual pore, seeing thousands of them bloom on my normally sweat-free shoulder is better than an IMAX experience. I breathe slowly to acclimatize to the equatorial conditions of a private, gas-fired cedar room at Hastings Steam and Sauna, and my northern instincts find comfort in the primitive therapy. Twenty-four minutes later, my body is purged of the invisible layer of city residue that blanketed my skin.
Here's a limerick that Jean Vancise has been waiting for weeks to see published: