Locus Recommended Reading List

[ellenkushner]

Hey, cool! I have 2 stories on the 2009 Locus Recommended Reading list:

"'A Wild & a Wicked Youth'"
- published by Gordon Van Gelder in the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction's April/May 2009 issue (and available in electronic form as a single-issue purchase!*) . . . this one will also be reprinted in Jonathan Strahan's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, coming in March from Night Shade books. (This is the story about the boyhood of Richard St. Vier.)

"Dulce Domum"
published in Jonathan Strahan's superb anthology (I can say this because my story was maybe the shortest one in there, so only a tiny percentage of the real estate is me), Eclipse 3. (This was the "Wind in the Willows"/Christmas story - I read it aloud at Wiscon & Readercon, I think. I think...)

In other news: Trader Joe's Cocoa Almonds, how I miss you! The Dark Chocolate ones are not at all the same. I went to Sahadi in Brooklyn yesterday and kinda bought out the store: golden raisins (which for some reason have been almost impossible to find up here lately), baked salted corn kernels, Turkish apricots, dried California peaches, the best, freshest roasted almonds it has ever been my pleasure to snarfle, mint-chocolate lentils, Moroccan oil-cured olives (all from big tubs, of course), Fines Herbes Provencales (complete w/lavender buds) . . . all at crazylow Atlantic Avenue prices. But I am sad to say that their Cocoa Almonds, while lovely, just aren't It. (And just in case anyone reading this is TJ's CEO: Whatever happened to that Green Matcha Tea Yoghurt, pal?) But it's good to be back in the same town as Sahadi's! Next time maybe I'll have the strength to make it as far as Court Street Bakery for the almond paste macaroons, and Sweet Melissa's for a chestnut madeleine.

*ADDED: Turns out there are 4 different providers of digital editions of F&SF. Go here and scroll to the bottom of the page.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

No, dark choc. is NOT the same as cocoa. But Trader Joe's is ever thus. A storeful of things coasting gently down to the cheapest still-acceptable-quality point. Their cheese being a sad example.

I still remember and miss the cocoa-covered almonds that those crazy people at Cocolat used to make. I have had good ones since, but never quite the delicate multilayered drageeing that made the Cocolat ones perfect.

Chestnut madeleine: brilliant.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Their cheese was never any damn' good.

I think we've got the madeleine recipe somewhere . . . you use chestnut honey.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That's wonderful.
Green Matcha Tea yoghurt? Sounds delicious: it should definitely continue.

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

Please blow a kiss to Sahadi's for me next time you're there! I think without their prepared foods I would have subsisted entirely on hot dogs and lentil stew that year I lived in Brooklyn. They even gave me chicken skins so I could make schmaltz for chopped liver. They are the best.

And in other news: Mazal tov!