October 22, 2010 – Peace Corps Worldwide

Another Cook Book from Nancie McDermott

Oct 22 2010

We met Nanci McDermott (Thailand 1975-78) years ago when she was living in California and had published her first book on Thai cooking. She is now ‘back home’ in North Carolina, and doing ‘home coming.’This is an article about Nanci that appeared this last Wednesday in The Charlotte Observer and written by Andrea Weigl: Nancie McDermott wants you to bake pies. But she doesn’t insist on a homemade pie crust. Her recipes don’t assume you own a Kitchen Aid standing mixer. Your pies do not have to turn out as pretty as the pictures in her latest cookbook, “Southern Pies: A Gracious Plenty of Pie Recipes from Lemon Chess to Chocolate Pecan.” “I would like to be the enemy of perfectionism,” McDermott says. “There’s so much of that in food.” Rather, she says, “let the beautiful thing inspire you, not intimidate you.” This is the 10th book from McDermott, 58, . . .

10 Simple Things To Do To Improve Your Prose

Oct 22 2010

Here are a few suggestions to help you write like a writer. 1. Read great books, but also read bad books that will show you how Not to Write! 2. Write about what you know and where you lived and what you did in life. You have a ‘feel’ for that and it will come through in your writing. 3. Write about people and incidents you know. Use the correct names and places to keep it real. Later you can change the names and locations and call it fiction. 4. If you get hung up trying to remember a fact or piece of history, just leave it and move on and get ‘something’ written. You can drown doing research. It’s easy. Writing it hard. 5. Write everyday, even if it is only a few lines. Hemingway, they say, wrote only 50 words a day and then went fishing. (Actually I think he . . .

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