Katherine's Book Backyard

My friend Roz loves food history and today she sent this from howstuffworks : Candy corn has been around for more than a century. George R...

I was the bellaonline.com site's "Chocolate editor" for more than a year. Somehow, I never ran across Ina Garten's chocola...

Photograph by Tomer Kori When I was 15, my father retired from the army and the family moved to Richmond, Virginia. It was a bit of a cul...

It’s almost Halloween, which means the candy holiday season is beginning and chocolate cravings are waking. Instead of mainlining Three M...

Just in time for Halloween, Here Be Monsters , eight tales of vampires, werewolves, demons, zombies and other horrors. The anthology include...

Patti Abbott hosts some terrific flash fiction challenges and this one was irresistible. Choose any work by American artist Reginald Marsh ...

Volume I of NoHo Noir comes to an end. Illustration by Mark Satchwill A year ago, late on a Sunday night, I answered a Craig's List...