I’m having a party on June 18^th at 6 pm and you are invited.

This isn’t just any kind of party, I will host a gathering at my house, but at the same time, all around the world, other people will have the same party—on the same theme. What’s our theme you ask? I’ll tell you, we’re CONNECTING THROUGH FOOD, one of my favorite ways of connecting.

We’re also celebrating the release of Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World (a Three River Press original). Forty-one authors, of whom I am one, tell their stories of adventuring around the world. An additional and very tasty bonus is the thirty-three accompanying recipes. Curried carrot soup anyone? Charred sugar-crusted Salmon? Ginger-cumin roasted chicken? Butternut squash salad from the Seychelles? (Say that three times fast!) Swedish Kladdkaka? If you guessed that the last one is connected to my contribution to the book, you guessed right.  Read more »