http://calitreview.com Book reviews, essays, and author interviews. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:57:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://calitreview.com/4444 http://calitreview.com/4444#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 15:06:34 +0000 Julia Rhodes http://calitreview.com/?p=4444 Julie & Julia is a valentine to female independence, an ode to striving for what you truly enjoy.]]> http://calitreview.com/4444/feed 6 http://calitreview.com/3354 http://calitreview.com/3354#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:57:52 +0000 Brenna E. Fitzgerald http://calitreview.com/?p=3354 Food, Inc. gives us those nitty-gritty details of how a tomato is grown or how a chicken is raised. It reveals that every step of the process from farm to factory to functional product is not as scrupulously regulated as government organizations like the USDA and the FDA would have you believe. According to Pollan, “the industrial food system is always looking for greater efficiency. But each new step in efficiency leads to problems.”]]> http://calitreview.com/3354/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/2118 http://calitreview.com/2118#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:56:14 +0000 David Lida http://calitreview.com/?p=2118 The Classic Italian Cookbook, her first effort, saw the light of day. Thirty-five years later, with increasingly sophisticated recipe books, restaurants and food industries in the United States, it is hard to remember how groundbreaking Hazan’s work has been.]]> http://calitreview.com/2118/feed 0 http://calitreview.com/1512 http://calitreview.com/1512#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:57:26 +0000 Paul Comstock http://calitreview.com/?p=1512 http://calitreview.com/1512/feed 11 http://calitreview.com/227 http://calitreview.com/227#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:08:14 +0000 David Loftus http://calitreview.com/2007/06/20/an-interview-with-novelist-nicole-mones/ http://calitreview.com/227/feed 3 http://calitreview.com/56 http://calitreview.com/56#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:29:23 +0000 Uma Girish http://calitreview.com//interviews/an-interview-with-joanne-harris/ http://calitreview.com/56/feed 1