♥ you are what you eat.

if you are a book whore like me, you may have noticed in my side column

that for the past few weeks or so i have been hungrily devouring every

last word of molly wizenberg's memoir/recipe book of sorts-

a homemade life.

source.

i am not usually one to browse for books while grocery shopping,

but when i spotted this treasure amongst a pile of other not so scholarly selections--

my brain immediately recognized the cover and sparked a memory of

something i had seen ages and ages ago while trolling blogs.

you see, it was written by a fellow blogger, and to me,

that is a very significant detail.

writer molly wizenberg did not go to school to be a cook or an author

for that matter, but like the saying she repeats throughout her book,

"whatever you love, you are" there was no clearer path for her than starting

the blog orangette and letting life's path stretch itself

out before her.

"i believe in paying attention to [my] meals, no matter how fast or

frustrating.i believe in what they can show me about the place where

i live, about the people around me, and about who i want to be. to me,

that is the "meat" of food. that's what feeds me-

why i cook and why i write." (pg 6)

(read an excerpt, published in ny times.)

and when she is not "winning hearts and minds" (another quote from

her book) with her delicious recipes and her easy to sink your teeth-into

type of writing, molly and her hubby, brandon are busy with their

wood-fire pizza project- a seattle-based restaurant called

delancey--which looks too good for words.