So very exciting!! On March 11, 2011, Communion will be featured in a one-hour interview and call-in program, Here in Earth’s Food Fridays on Wisconsin Public Radio. A producer for the show found Communion while trolling reviews on the Elliott Bay Book Company website.
Click here to learn more about Here on Earth. And here to read the review on the Elliott Bay website. The broadcast will be available on the radio’s website as well as at iTunes.
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I was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, Celeste Heiter (editor of To Japan With Love and author of The Sushi Book and more) told me that she had made an instructional video for my clay pot fish recipe from Communion. While traveling and learning to cook for the book, my sister and I [...]
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Last week I had the privilege of attending my first book club discussion for Communion. My mom’s book club, The SaddleBrooke BrookeWorms, gathered at my parents’ home in the SaddleBrooke community in Tucson, to talk about Communion, make fresh spring rolls, and nibble on a few Vietnamese dishes … To read all about the evening, [...]
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Check out Skylight’s November event schedule. Jules and I are listed on the 21st. I’ll be making my Vietnamese mother’s famous fresh spring rolls and Jules will be making banana flower salad—we’ve found a source so won’t have to go hunting through the yards of L.A.! Of course there will be wine and the Mandoline [...]
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Check out MSN’s online glo magazine. The editors have picked Communion as today’s “Gotta Have It” product. To read even more reviews, check out the accolades page on my website. So many lovely words of praise. Many thanks to all of the writers and editors who have chosen to shine a spotlight on Communion.
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This has been a great couple of weeks for Communion in the blogosphere. Marjolein, at Marjolein’s Book Blog, has been generous with her praise, featuring reviews of Communion and To Vietnam With Love, as well as an interview about the books. As well, Mom Most Traveled is sending news of Communion out into the world. [...]
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Last week Julie and I headed to the Pacific Northwest for a three-store reading tour for Communion. Overall, more than 130 people came out to listen, watch (a slide show from the book), buy, and at two of the stores, nibble on fresh spring rolls. Many thanks to the Elliott Bay Book Company (Seattle, WA; [...]
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Just a reminder that Julie and I will be in Seattle, Bellingham, and Portland starting on Sunday, presenting a reading and slide show about Communion. Following is the schedule. We hope to see you at one of these terrific independent bookstores. Elliott Bay Book Company 1521 Tenth Avenue Seattle, Washington Sunday, September 19, 2010, at [...]
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This is my favorite review of Communion so far — written by Deborah Aubespin for the Courier-Journal in Louisville. There are so many wonderful things about this review. #1) The love it has for Communion. #2) The C-J is a Gannett paper, so this piece was picked up online in newspapers as varied as the India [...]
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Thank you Tim Fischer for your lovely review of Communion on Zester Daily. And yes everyone, that is Julie’s mouth-watering tamarind crab photo. (The photo is also featured on the site’s main page). What a great way to start a holiday weekend, with words such as these: “Fay writes a poignant, funny and engrossing tale [...]
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