The Well-Seasoned Librarian: Mixing Cookbooks and Conversation

This is a Hanukkah Week Rebroadcast of a previously aired episode.

Bio: BETH A. LEE who grew up on the East Coast before moving with her family to Northern California, thousands of miles away from the traditional Jewish food she was raised on. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a degree in business and later pursued a marketing career in Silicon Valley.

In 2010, Beth realized she preferred pita chips over computer chips and launched her food blog, OMG! Yummy. Through her blog, she reconnected with her love of cooking and her passion for documenting her family’s multicultural food traditions.

Beth has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News as well as many blogs and podcasts including KCRW’s Good Food. She also co-leads a popular virtual cooking group, Tasting Jerusalem, focused on Middle Eastern cuisines and ingredients.

OMG Yummy Website: https://omgyummy.com/

The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook: 50 Traditional Recipes for Every Occasion https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Jewish-Baking-Cookbook-Traditional/dp/164876567X/ref=asc_df_164876567X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533430572374&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15892118297048152969&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032305&hvtargid=pla-1380279398596&psc=1

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This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Bio: BETH A. LEE who grew up on the East Coast before moving with her family to Northern California, thousands of miles away from the traditional Jewish food she was raised on. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, where she received a degree in business and later pursued a marketing career in Silicon Valley.

In 2010, Beth realized she preferred pita chips over computer chips and launched her food blog, OMG! Yummy. Through her blog, she reconnected with her love of cooking and her passion for documenting her family’s multicultural food traditions.

Beth has been featured in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News as well as many blogs and podcasts including KCRW’s Good Food. She also co-leads a popular virtual cooking group, Tasting Jerusalem, focused on Middle Eastern cuisines and ingredients.

The Essential Jewish Baking Cookbook: 50 Traditional Recipes for Every Occasion https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Jewish-Baking-Cookbook-Traditional/dp/164876567X/ref=asc_df_164876567X/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533430572374&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15892118297048152969&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9032305&hvtargid=pla-1380279398596&psc=1

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Bio: Faith Kramer is a food writer and recipe developer concentrating on the food ways, history, and customs of the Jewish diaspora. She develops recipes and writes about Jewish customs and food as well as travel, and global ingredients.

As a columnist for j., the Jewish News of Northern California, she writes articles on food and cooking along with original recipes.

Faith has taught cooking classes on food from around the world, presented programs on Jewish customs, celebrations, and holidays, and led food-related walking tours that explore the economic, geographic, and political underpinnings of the food as well as how to use international ingredients in other contexts.

She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area.

52 Shabbats: Friday Night Dinners Inspired by a Global Jewish Kitchen https://www.amazon.com/52-Shabbats-Dinners-Inspired-Kitchen/dp/1951412184/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1GOBE9KQTO5WA&keywords=faith+kramer+52+shabbos&qid=1671484965&s=books&sprefix=faith+kramer+52+shabbots%2Cstripbooks%2C192&sr=1-1

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This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I’m on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts 🎉☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wellseasonedlib

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Priya Mani is a Copenhagen-based designer and food writer. Mani grew up in India and studied at the National Institute of Design.

Her bylines have appeared in the Art of eating, Whetstone Journal, and Gastro Obscura, among others. Her work has found mentioned in Elle Decor, Wired UK, and MOLD Magazine, and she won an Honourable mention at the Sophie Coe prize for Food Writing 2021.

She is working on a Visual Encyclopedia of Indian Foods that won the British Guild of Food Writers Award 2022 and the International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Award 2022.

She regularly presents at the Oxford Symposium of Food and Cooking.

Cookalore Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cookalore/?hl=en

Website: https://www.cookalore.com/

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Alison Walsh first began cooking as a way to stretch her post-college paycheck. From there, her love of cooking grew. In 2014, she combined her love of food and books into Alison’s Wonderland Recipes (WonderlandRecipes.com), a food blog dedicated to book-inspired recipes. Her recipes have been featured on the Good Morning America website and MuggleNet, the number one Harry Potter fan website. She is the author of A Literary Tea Party, which placed fourth in the cookbook category of the 2018 Goodreads Choice Awards. She lives in northern Illinois with her husband and two wee hobbits.

Allison's Wonderland Recipes http://wonderlandrecipes.com/

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

If you follow my podcast and enjoy it, I’m on @buymeacoffee. If you like my work, you can buy me a coffee and share your thoughts 🎉☕ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wellseasonedlib

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Bio: Travel/lifestyle journalist and historian James T. Bartlett has written for the Los Angeles Times, BBC, Los Angeles Magazine, ALTA California, Hemispheres, Westways, American Way, Atlas Obscura, The Guardian, Real Crime, Ripperologist Magazine, Crime Reads, History Ireland and Variety, among others.

His new true crime book, The Alaskan Blonde: Sex, Secrets, and the Hollywood Story that Shocked America, is available now, and as the author of Gourmet Ghosts – Los Angeles and Gourmet Ghosts 2, alternative guides to the history, crimes, and ghost stories at some of the city’s oldest bars, restaurants, and hotels, he has appeared on Ghost Adventures and The UnXplained. You can find more at www.gourmetghosts.com, and "Daily Deaths" are on #GourmetGhosts and @GourmetGhosts

Gourmet Ghosts Website  www.gourmetghosts.com 

Website for the Alaskan Blonde www.thealaskanblonde.com

Gourmet Ghosts Los Angeles https://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Ghosts-James-T-Bartlett/dp/0984973001/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WWH9329XP5B8&keywords=gourmet+ghosts&qid=1670899033&s=books&sprefix=gourmet+ghosts%2Cstripbooks%2C178&sr=1-1

Gourmet Ghosts II https://www.amazon.com/Gourmet-Ghosts-James-T-Bartlett/dp/0997582901/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1WWH9329XP5B8&keywords=gourmet+ghosts&qid=1670899119&s=books&sprefix=gourmet+ghosts%2Cstripbooks%2C178&sr=1-2 

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Bio :The American Crisis Playlist (2020-2021) is Terry Barr's fourth essay collection published by Redhawk Publications. Terry's essay "Greyhound Seats" won first prize in Tell Your Story's spring 2022 essay contest, and his work appears regularly in The Riff, Plethora of Pop, and A Cornered Gurl, on Medium.com.  He lives in Greenville, SC, with his family and will retire as Professor of English at Presbyterian College in the spring of 2023.

The American Crisis Playlist (2020-2021) : https://redhawkpublications.com/American-Playlist-2020-2021-p488717832

Website: https://terrybarr.com/home/

Medium: https://terrybarr.medium.com/

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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A quick bio: I grew up in South Carolina and Richmond, Virginia, a middle child in a big Catholic family. I majored in English at the University of South Carolina, and did an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Now I live in Richmond with my husband and son. As a freelance journalist, I've contributed to the Wall Street Journal, Slate, CNBC and NBC News, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, and many others. Poe for Your Problems is my first book.

Poe for Your Problems https://www.amazon.com/Poe-Your-Problems-Uncommon-Self-Help-ebook/dp/B08RYQ4PTV

Website: https://www.catherinebaabmuguira.com/

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Bio: Amisha Dodhia Gurbani is a computer engineer, recipe developer, photographer, and the creator of The Jam Lab. Born in Mumbai, she moved to the United States in 1999. Gurbani’s culinary creations are remarkable for their unique flavor pairings and modernization of her Indian culture. Through her blog and popular Instagram account, she teaches readers to play with sweet, spicy, sour and savory flavors, inspired by her Indian and Gujarati heritage. She has worked with Sunset Magazine, Wired, Diablo Magazine, Taproot and Bake from Scratch.

Mumbai Modern: Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by Indian Roots and California Cuisine

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Mary Ann Cullen is an associate professor and Associate Department Head at Georgia State University’s Alpharetta Campus. She has been involved in the open and affordable educational resources movement since 2013, when she participated in the adaptation of an OER text for an introductory English composition course. Since then, she has assisted faculty with OER adoption and grants, and presented about librarians’ roles in OER at ACRL, the Distance Library Services Conference, and a Carterette Series webinar. She has been recognized as an Affordable Learning Georgia Featured Advocate and co-edited the Fall 2020 special edition of the academic journal, Library Trends, “OER and the Academic Library,” with Elizabeth Dill.

Intersections of Open Educational Resources and Information Literacy.

This episode is sponsored by Culinary Historians of Northern California, a Bay Area educational group dedicated to the study of food, drink, and culture in human history. To learn more about this organization and its work, please visit its website at www.chnorcal.org

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Bio

"So the person behind the Pasta Grannies project is Vicky Bennison. That's me. I spent many years working in international development in places like Siberia, South Africa, and Turkmenistan. The next decent meal was always on my mind and I began writing about my culinary adventures:  cooking zebra stew in near Lake Turkana in Kenya is just one example.

I progressed onto writing books. 'The Taste of a Place' food guides told you where to find good food and wine in Corfu, Mallorca and Andalucia. I was chuffed they were recommended by The Observer, The Times, and Delia Smith Online, amongst others.

I co-wrote 'Seasonal Spanish Food' with London based, Spanish chef Jose Pizarro (shortlisted for 3 different awards).

My husband, Billy, and I have a home in Le Marche, central Italy, and I divide my time between there and London." (Bio used from Website with permission.)

Cookbook link https://www.amazon.com/Pasta-Grannies-Comfort-Cooking-Traditional/dp/178488524X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EG713I8FRCY5&keywords=pasta+grannies&qid=1668446403&sprefix=pasta+granni%2Caps%2C652&sr=8-1

Website: https://www.pastagrannies.com/

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