Jam Today Returns: A Confidante in the Kitchen

by Tod Davies, Mike Madrid (Cover)

Everyone loves to eat―or they should. But anyone hungry, or in charge of hungry loved ones, has needed Tod Davies on their shelf to cheer them on when they ask, “What on earth am I going to make for dinner?” Nourishing in every sense of the word, this memoir/support system has been the guide readers turn to for eating, cooking, and living well, in the first two books of the cult classic series, Jam A Diary of Cooking With What You’ve Got, and Jam Today The Revolution Will Not Be Catered. Now it’s time to jam again with the third in the series, Jam Today A Confidante in the Kitchen― getting back to basics, whether it’s with shopping, cooking for friends, throwing a party, or just making a meal for yourself. Tod writes like she wishes she could be there, standing in your kitchen, holding a glass of wine, talking about food, its place in a life well lived, what it means to us―and what it means to the kind of world we want to live in. With new stories from Tod’s kitchen, her latest adventures with techniques and ingredients, and a lot of kitchen hacks along the way, this new addition to the Jam Today series continues to “Today the kitchen. Tomorrow the world.”

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 29, 2019

About the author

Tod Davies is the author of Snotty Saves the Day and Lily the Silent, both from The History of Arcadia series, and the cooking memoirs Jam Today: A Diary of Cooking With What You’ve Got and Jam Today Too: The Revolution Will Not Be Catered. Unsurprisingly, her attitude toward literature is the same as her attitude toward cooking—it’s all about working with what you have to find new ways of looking and new ways of being, and in doing so, to rediscover the best of our humanity. Davies lives with her husband Alex, and their two dogs, in the alpine valley of Colestin, Oregon, and at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, in Boulder, Colorado.