![]() ![]() They were regulars on the show for eight years spanning the 1980s-1990s in career-defining roles that still get them noticed around town. Law will know Michael Tucker and his wife Jill Eikenberry. ![]() Let’s take a look at this year’s favorites…įans of the tv show, L.A. That’s always how we like to talk about books around here. And I hope they spark a conversation or two once read over a meal shared. ![]() I hope you find them as fascinating as I did. These are family stories, personal stories, and cultural stories, but above all, they are human stories that connect us to places and people we call home. To England, to Italy, to Connecticut, to Massachusetts, and then back again to England. There is one house that’s continuously under construction the whole way through and then there is another house that’s patched up here and there with thoughtful consideration drawn out over generations. There are famous names attached to a few, and a long lineage attached to another. There are grand palaces, a rustic second home, a 1600s-era house passed down through generations, and a new old house ready to be revived. This year, they each happen to center around the idea of home and the occupants in it. The oldest one debuted in 1992 and the most recent was published just this past April (2022), but they were new to me so perhaps they will be new to you as well. Not all these books are brand new to the publishing world this year. So whether you are traveling this week, and need something to read on the train, on the plane, or in the car, or you are taking a few days off to relax and wind down your 2022 festivities, I hope this list will add some interest to your December days. ![]() It’s been three years since our last book recommendation list, but I’m excited to say that our end-of-the-year wrap-up includes this tradition now taken up again. Bridge, about the midcentury suburban home life of everywoman, India Bridge. Sometimes it was even books published so long ago that they came back as new-to-the-world anniversary editions like the 1959 novel Mrs. Sometimes it was atmospheric like the novel Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange and sometimes it was a gathering of memories about a place that made the past come to life in the present like meeting the Durrells in My Family and Other Animals or the Chamberlains in Clementine in the Kitchen. Sometimes it was a book about a specific person, a surprise, like Bette Davis. Then that list seeped out into other months with other recommendations, because the reading is always happening and so many books swimming on my desk, on my nightstand, on my dining table set their hooks. Here in the Vintage Kitchen, we have our own favorites to recommend too.įor a long-time on the blog every December, I shared a batch of books that I discovered during the year that helped fuel research for a recipe or give context to a blog story or a shop item. They’ve popped up in the usual places – bookstore emails, cooking magazines and blogs but also in unsuspecting places this year too – podcasts, garden centers, even our grocery store had a section of books dedicated to staff picks. It’s so wonderful to hear so much buzz about favorite book lists and recommended reads these days all from a variety of different outlets. It was also the year of the recommended book. It was the year of the continuing pandemic, the year of dramatic weather, the year of gratitude, of comfort food, of appreciating small details and big moments, and finally the year of being able to get back together with friends and family. ![]()
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