Check it out, my first ever Bûche de Noël! This all came about because I am spending Christmas with my in-laws this year. This means foregoing a huge 36-hour feast with my gluttonous family to hang out with much more reasonable and quieter folk. Don't get me wrong, I love my in-laws and I don't think a girl could have gotten much luckier in that department. I am just used to a much more Asian-tinged affair for the day that Jesus was born.
Anyhoo, wanting to help and be a part of the festivities, I asked if I could contribute to the Christmas meal. A Yule log was asked for, a log they got. I adapted a recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Cake Bible, topped with my own cream cheese frosting. To my surprise it turned out really quite well and the tasters' verdicts were, "Seconds please!" Can't knock that...
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MSTLY TRUE
A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball
Molly O'Neill of New York Times and The New York Cookbook fame, is now the author of MOSTLY TRUE: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball, a lush memoir that treats each of these subjects with affection, hilarity, and, of course, the rich and beautiful writing that she is so well-known for.
“Mostly True reads like a comic novel . . . O’Neill trots merrily from one anecdote to the next – from testing recipes for Lillian Hellman’s culinary memoir to publishing under her own name.” – New York Times Book Review
“One of the funniest, most heartwarming memoirs in years from the esteemed food columnist for The New York Times Magazine . . . Foodies will cheer for the remarkable O’Neills.” – People (4 stars)
“Amazingly alive.” – Boston Globe
“Hearty nourishment for foodies.” – New York Newsday
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