jump to Recipe a little bitter and a little sweet (placemat by La FABBRICA del LINO) Our current Cook the Books Club selection is Land of Milk and Honey, a novel by C Pam Zhang. The story is set in a world, where "A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing."1 The protagonist and narrator is a young chef, who escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound.1 Early in the book, after we are told... Read more →