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This Tasty Gluten-Free Citrus Polenta Cake Is Good Enough To Eat for Breakfast Lindsay Gardner © Illustration: Lindsay Gardner / Workman Publishing polenta cake recipe Every home and professional chef has an origin story of what made them love cooking. But despite cooking long being viewed as a "woman's domain," the stories and experiences of professional female cooks have long been underappreciated. It's this reality—and the stark gender and racial inequities in the food industry—that inspired artist Lindsay Gardner to write her latest book, Why We Cook: Women on Food...

January 2021 Resource Roundup: Antiracist Books for Every Age Group Happy New Year! We hope the new year has been treating you well so far — and that you’ve been keeping up with your resolutions. One of the most common New Year’s resolutions is to read more, and this year, many of us are resolved to become more antiracist. To help with both of these worthy goals, we’ve compiled an antiracist book list.  Check out a few of our favorites; we’ve selected four children’s books, four middle-grade and YA books, and four books for adult readers. Each title is linked to a Black-owned boo...

By George P. Matysek Jr. Serenely peering out from stained-glass or standing atop pedestals while piously presenting the instruments of their martyrdom, the saints can often appear otherworldly in church art. Carey Wallace’s new children’s book, “Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage,” shows that holy men and women — whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto — also were what Wallace calls “relentlessly human.” “The saints are often scared,” said Wallace, a novelist...

Jan 17, 2021 catholic news service A child opens to an illustration of St. Joan of Arc in "Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage" by Carey Wallace. (Credit: George P. Matysek Jr.,/Catholic Review via CNS.) Carey Wallace's new children's book, "Stories of the Saints: Bold and Inspiring Tales of Adventure, Grace and Courage," shows that holy men and women -- whose miraculous deeds, charitable works and battles with armies, beasts and demons she chronicles with gusto -- also were what Wallace calls "relentlessly human." BALTIMORE — Serenely peering out...

I've never been able to find a good way to display Christmas cards; I am not a "hang them around the door frame" kind of person (it grates on my minimalist sensibility), so last year I put out a big bowl in our dining room and put them all in there (to be fair, I took the idea from a friend — I'm not that quick). It keeps them neat and tidy, and my kids love going through them all year long. As we've added to the bowl this year, I've spent some time perusing last year's cards. What a difference a year makes.