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This week, a member writes to ask: "My partner and I are crazy about California, crazy about eating, and crazy for cookbooks. Looking for a good gift that combines these passions. Any ideas?"
Yes! California is kind of our thing, too. And we know our way around the table as well as those bound collections of printed matter. All of which is to say... let's do this."
"LIFE AT THE DUMPLING"
Angeleno author Trisha Cole's 168-page "Life at the Dumpling" collects life advice from her popular Covid-era newsletters and years of raising a family in an adorable Glassell Park hillside home, the titular "dumpling," along with recipes, notes, quotes, poems, how-tos, stories, numerology, and black-and-white illustrations. This guide to the "dumpling life" is a gorgeous cure for whatever ails you in this screen-dominated age. Cole will be having a signing at Little Flower in Pasadena on Aug 11.
