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The Reading Life With Bonnie Warren And Returned Family Bibles

By Susan Larson
Published December 23, 2014 at 11:42 AM CST

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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Susan Larson
The Reading Life in 2010, Susan Larson was the book editor for The New Orleans Times-Picayune from 1988-2009. She has served on the boards of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival and the New Orleans Public Library. She is the founder of the New Orleans chapter of the Women's National Book Association, which presents the annual Diana Pinckley Prizes for Crime Fiction.. In 2007, she received the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities lifetime achievement award for her contributions to the literary community. She is also the author of The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans. If you run into her in a local bookstore or library, she'll be happy to suggest something you should read. She thinks New Orleans is the best literary town in the world, and she reads about a book a day.
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