Settle In and Slow Down A national book tour? A month on the road? Me? Well that’s what I just did—a Home Cooking with Kate McDermott Book Tour. It was wild and wonderful. I’ve been back for about a week and as we are well in to autumn, and winter is just around the corner, it’s time […]
On the Road Again: Home Cooking
On the Road Again with Home Cooking with Kate McDermott Like the Willie Nelson song, On the Road Again, it’s book tour time. There are so many aspects of writing a book before one gets to that point. Recipes, testing, writing, photography, re-writes, deadlines, sleepless nights…and then the day arrives that your baby goes out in […]
Back on the Pie Way
Back on the Pie Way I’m headed back out on the Pie Way to share the craft of crust. This time I’m heading to Santa Barbara, my beloved hometown, for workshops. I love walking in the neighborhood where I grew up. It’s a quiet part of town just a few blocks from the Old Mission […]
Beginning Again
Beginning Again I took a break. You may have noticed. After turning in the manuscript for our book, there was a feeling of space. I recognized it from the last time, when I turned in the manuscript for Art of the Pie…only that time I thought, well, that’s done. Hardly! It was just the beginning. There […]
Homemade Chicken Pot Pie
With a population of about 45,000, Santa Barbara in the 1950’s still had a small town feel to it. ALL the shops were locally owned, and since my family had been there since the turn of the century, my folks knew everyone…or so it seemed to me when my mom took me downtown with her on Saturdays. […]