Whether making pizza in an RV due to a flooded kitchen or a steak dinner for herself following the death of her father, Tod Davies entwines food and cooking with love and life. This engaging literary memoir will inspire you to find your inner Julia Child. Shelf Unbound: Jam Today Too is a food memoir celebrating the pleasures of home cooking. Tell us about the title, which comes from one of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland books. Tod Davies: It’s from Through the Looking Glass. One of my favorite books. The Queen says to Alice, “The rule is, jam to-
morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.” And Alice says, “It must come sometimes to ‘jam today’.” Well, that always impressed me. It does seem to me that too much of our modern life is the memory of jam yesterday or the hope of jam tomorrow. And food— thinking about it, preparing it, eating it,
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