Queezle_Sister's Profile

From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)


Latest review:

August 23rd, 2019

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >


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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating

By Barbara Kingsolver
Faber and Faber - 2008

October 6th, 2012

Reading this book took me a long time (similar to @sturlington's experience). It is inspirational - eating locally, and discovering that if you eat local, eating meat might become really important. It paralleled an experience I had many years ago. I was living in NE California, in a very small town in the high desert (Canby, CA). I was vegetarian, and the vegetable and fruit were delivered to the store only once a week, and even then it was not so good. I slowly realized that the cows that surrounded me were a more environmentally sound choice.

What really amazed me what that Kingsolver's children enthusiastically took up the cause. I do not know how she did that!

I agree with @Sturlington that some parts were too preachy for me. I also kept feeling "yea, done that...". But for people just discovering eating local, it could be a true inspiration.