Features
- Cover Type: Paperback
- Published by: Heliotrope Books July 15, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0981619851
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0981619859
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Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
- Weighs: 8 ounces
Reader ReviewsI started Leda Meredith's book on the way home from a reading she gave at the Bluestocking's bookstore in Manhattan. Like any sane reader, as I rode the subway I went through her recipes. Surely a bad recipe in a book about food can not be tolerated. Contrarily, if her recipes looked good, creative, interesting, I would proceed forthwith. By pure chance I came first to a recipe for spiceberry ice cream, calling for honey rather than sugar. Honey? Honey??!!! As an amateur creamery mixologist in my own rite, I was hooked. Leda Meredith's book is deeply ethical - she is the sort of woman who puts her money where her mouth is - inspiring, thought-provoking, and most importantly lovely. She writes about her trials and her successes, her passions and her private personal horrors with a never ending tone of hope and possibility. She never whines or preaches. She offers her own insights into the life well lived, and invites readers to do the same. Most importantly, she does not insist that you do any of the things she has done (thank god - I don't think my ballet en pointe is every going to measure up), or even that you believe everything she believes (I don't), she merely invites readers to live with passion and feeling and depth. Like a recipe for ice cream, sweetened and thickened with honey - honey!!! - her book is a surprising treat. Take a lick. I'm sure you'll go back for the whole scoop.
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