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The Reading Life With Bonnie Warren And Returned Family Bibles

The Reading Life for 12/23/14

This week on The Reading Life: Bonnie Warren talks about New Orleans Homes at Christmas and Whitney Stewart and Stephanie Stokes talk about the return of cherished family bibles via the internet. And Gladin Scott of Maple Street Book Shop offers cookbook recommendations.

Gladin Scott's cookbook picks:

  1. New Orleans Classic Creole Recipes    Kit Wohl   Pelican
  2. The Essential Louisiana Cookbook   Stanley Dry / Eugenia Uhl  Renaissance
  3. Down South   Donald Link   Potter
  4. Make It Ahead  Ina Garten  Potter
  5. Historic Heston  Heston Blumenthal  Bloomsbury

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Before becoming the host of The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She is the vice president for literary programming of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival, she serves on the board of directors of the New Orleans Public Library, and she is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women's National Book Association. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community.