Books I Hope Santa Brings for TTT

It has been awhile since I posted a Top Ten Tuesday list. Since Christmas is nigh, I wanted to alert all friends and family of my Christmas list. 🙂

Here are the “Books I Hope Santa Brings.”

Rodney Scott's World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day

1. Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ: Every Day Is a Good Day

by Rodney Scott and Lolis Eric Elie Santa delivering this would be quite the feat b/c it’s not published until March. I have actually pre-ordered this one for The Hubs for a belated Christmas gift. We became infatuated with Scott after seeing him on Chef’s Table: BBQ. We also fell in love with Tootsie!

2. Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia . I love the cover on this book and have heard such great reviews. I did order this for my own stocking this year. I can’t wait to dive into it.

3. The Nightingale: A Novel

by Kristin Hannah. A friend lent me this book earlier this year and I loved it. I can’t tell you how many times I have recommended this book to others. I want my very own copy.

4. Regional Foods of Northern Italy: Recipes and Remembrances

by Marlena de Blasi. No, I don’t need anymore cookbooks but I do love de Blasi and her memoirs and fiction. I am pretty sure if this is not under the tree it will be sought out in 2021.

5. A Cook’s Tour: In Search of the Perfect Meal

by Anthony Bourdain. This is one of the few Bourdain books I do not have.

6. Resort Fashion: Style in Sun-Drenched Climates (First Edition)

by Caroline Rennolds Milbank, Amy Fine Collins. When we were boat shopping in 2019, we found this book on a table in a lounge at a lakeside resort in Missouri. Maybe it was the setting or we talked about what a great book this would be in the cabin of our yet-to-be-purchased boat but we both fell in love with it. It’s very retro and kitschy.

7. The Cactus: A Novel

by Sarah Haywood. I’m not sure why this is on my list but it is. Has anyone read it?

8. Night at the Fiestas: Stories

by Kirstin Valdez Quade. I am pretty sure I read about this in New Mexico magazine. I am hoping it is also the book I picked up at an independent bookstore in Northern New Mexico on a long ago trip. I knew I should have bought it then.

9. As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

by Joan Reardon. To make my Julia library complete (albeit without a collectable copy of the Joy of French Cooking). I would totally enjoy a first edition of that one!

10. The Cook and the Gardener : A Year of Recipes and Writings for the French Countryside

by Amanda Hesser, Kate Gridley. I had to round out this list with another cookbook/memoir.