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Getting Ready for a Book Launch: My Latest Novel

by evyjourney | posted in: Blog, Books, Shade Under the Mango Tree | 0

I’m getting ready for the book launch of my latest novel. Yes, I’ve finished it: my latest book, The Shade Under the Mango Tree. I started it more than two years ago but, in the middle of writing it, my … Continued

Cooking As High Art, Eating As Sensuous Experience And Food in Fiction

by evyjourney | posted in: A Writer's Life, Blog, Books, Love, life, small things, Sugar and spice and all those lies | 3

In the film Babette’s Feast, a highly-gifted chef schooled in cooking as high art escapes war-torn Paris. She finds herself living in gentle servitude to two good and pious but dour, nearly joyless, sisters. With no inkling who Babette is, … Continued