Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and
The Secret of Everything
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television.
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I thought you might like to see the sisters.
More when I can actually sit up straight. After 6 days of conferencing and three of Walt Disney World, I don’t trust myself to cross the room, much less post about the [...]
Dinner in Suburbia by Make Less Noise
When I was a child, we ate dinner together nearly every night. I did not necessarily love the whole ritual, especially when my mother made hamburger pie, covered with mashed potatoes, or when I was in trouble for one thing or another (which was a lot), but [...]
One Christmas season, I was at loose ends. I was finally, officially divorced after a fairly long marriage. My sons were working and traveling, or out with their friends. There was a man I’d been seeing, but he was traveling, too, and anyway, he was never going to be My Guy and I [...]
The Gazette Telegraph’s book columnist had some lovely things to say about The Lost Recipe For Happiness:
http://anitalaydonmiller.blogspot.com/
I should add that she most graciously interviewed me and read my book open-mindedly even though I accidentally blindsided her in a blog I wrote for RTB. Thanks, Anita. A lady and a scholar.
I really really loved this review. From an Adelaide publication. (Newsletter, maybe?) http://www.galaxyguides.com/newsletters/newsletter8_1.09.html#lostrecipe
My favorite part is that she quoted Zorba. One of my favorite movies of all time. (When I was pregnant, my fabulous sister took me to the play, and Anthony Quinn was playing his signature role. ) Anyway…..
THE LOST RECIPE FOR [...]
photo of chiles by Sarah Serendipity
A reader of The Lost Recipe for Happiness wrote to me and said, “Those of us without knowledge of the southwest US and its foods might have liked a little more instruction on how to roast chiles.” A [...]
Week before last, TOP CHEF had a challenge that involved cooking the “last supper” of a group of individual famous chefs. Fascinating idea. Someone then asked me on Twitter what my last supper would be and I popped off with “a southern breakfast.”
It’s not an easy challenge. I’m still running through the possibilities. I [...]
Joan Didion, the celebrated writer, went to Columbia Elementary School for awhile. The old building, made of red sandstone (as well as I can recollect), not the modern version that occupies the lot these days. I have been drunkenly reading her work, admiring the western cleanness, the spare and unsentimental way she captures the [...]
I have two rescue dogs. You’ve met Jack, my neurotic and stunningly gorgeous Chow mix, who prances more than walks and has been known to do things like bolt through my front window in terror over fireworks (a double-paned mullioned picture window on a bitterly cold New Year’s Eve). [...]
In The Lost Recipe for Happiness there is a recipe for Pomegranate Baklava. It is the invention of a surly, beautiful gay chef who is Elena’s nemesis for much of the book. I’ll be serving it at booksignings and wanted to be sure I remembered how it all went together (of course I tested it [...]
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