Cookbook authors come through regularly on book signing tours.
It is fun to hear them tell how their interest in cooking and writing has evolved and the stories behind their recipe collections. In the spring, The Splendid Grain by Rebecca Wood came out. As its title proclaims, it is an eclectic collection of recipes using grains from around the world. Included is a section using buckwheat, better known in the Eastern European Jewish community as kasha. Her first cookbooks, Moosewood Cookbook and Enchanted Broccoli Forest , were written to help parents cook for their vegetarian children.