Parsley Does Thyme The Upper East Side Cookbook Book 3 edition by Linda Olle Literature Fiction eBooks
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"Parsley Does Thyme" is a page-turner set in a medium-security women's prison. Our heroine, Parsley Cresswell, passes her time inside collecting cooking tips from everyone she meets. She learns to mix a Foxy, the inimitable prison cocktail, and creates soufflés and cakes in the prison’s kitchen microwave. Parsley’s resilience is reflected in her neighborhood, the Upper East Side, the part of Manhattan that never changes, which she hopes to return to without anyone knowing where she has been.
Vol. 3 in the Upper East Side Cookbook series, "Parsley Does Thyme" includes many genuine regional recipes, artwork by Carlos Ceesepe and Phoebe Dingwall, and a cover by Al Holter. "Parsley Does Thyme" has been called "Criminally funny."
"This will be a cult classic." Tenaya Darlington
"A deep dish indeed." Garrison Keillor
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Parsley Does Thyme The Upper East Side Cookbook Book 3 edition by Linda Olle Literature Fiction eBooks
By Srila Nayak "Linda Olle's PARSLEY DOES THYME (The Upper East Side Cookbook) is the latest in her three-volume recipe-filled account of the life of Parsley Cresswell, a devotee and practitioner of simple yet artful and inventive cooking, who, through unfortunate circumstances, lands in prison. The series skilfully sutures fiction, recipes and photographs to create a mock memoir of Cresswell, a former writer and restaurant critic."The protagonist hails from the Upper East Side, which is described as a decadent and enchanting court of Bergdorf's and Madison Avenue couture. The neighborhood's bejewelled socialites are sometimes called out as shoplifters and bad tippers and, at least, one of them, Cresswell's neighbor, was duped into buying a forged Gauguin. Creswell journeys from her posh neighborhood to a medium-security prison, which she nicknames Camp Crêpes Suzette, because it is a tremendous improvement upon her initial term in Rikers. She observes,'The cafeteria had a healthy salad bar in a colorful setting, with a revolving art exhibition. Prison should be like this, if incarceration is supposed to turn out better members of society.' Here she embraces the classless fellowship of female prisoners. They reciprocate by sharing their heirloom recipes with her.
"At one point, she enlightens her fellow inmates: '"Do you know what foie gras is?" I gave my sister inmates a long and terrifying description of fatted goose liver and its price tag. Then I said, "Well, my rich neighbors eat foie gras all the time." The women in the surrounding cells shuddered.'
"In the latest installment, Cresswell finally gets to tell her story in her own voice. (The first two novels of the series are narrated by Fran E. Smith, Cresswell's 'delightful and resourceful next-door neighbor.') Olle's Upper East Side Cookbook Series made its debut in 2009 with The Upper Eastside Cookbook: Setting the Table in a Time of Slender Means and was followed by the 2011, The Upper Eastside Cookbook: Main Course. Olle, a resident of Carnegie Hill in Manhattan, has been lauded for her entrepreneurial daring--she self-published her books through her very own Parsley Press.
"While Olle may loosely channel popular models of profligacy, excess and corruption such as Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff, Cresswell turns out to be interesting in her own right--she is both self-indulgent and ascetic, worldly and sentimental. She reminisces in prison about her neighborhood, 'Dorothy Parker said when she lived on the Upper East Side at the Volney, "I get up every morning and I want to kiss the pavement." I feel at my truly happiest when I'm in the kitchen with the radio on, with something in the oven set on low or soup simmering in the stove for hours.'
"In a profile in The New Yorker, Olle reveals her fascination with the prison tales of Madoff and Stewart. But there are a couple important differences between Cresswell and corporate titans such as Stewart that make her a sympathetic protagonist. Although Cresswell yearns for her 'comparatively scintillating' former life on the Upper East Side, she is nevertheless on the fringes of that society. She dreams of an electric grill in her kitchen 'for steaks and fish and sweet corn' and makes plans to auction her clothes and antiques to make ends meet after her release from prison. Also, she ends up in prison through no fault of her own.
"Cresswell's path to prison forms a hilarious subplot. Rendered unemployed by the dot-com bust, Cresswell makes a 'pragmatic decision' to briefly work as a dominatrix. The job is easy enough. All she has to do is gently whip a certain Mr. Morel with a 'tasselled flogger' in a room at a posh midtown hotel. One of their assignations ends badly when Morel suffers a heart attack and dies. Cresswell is amazed to find herself charged with insider trading, as, unbeknownst to her, Morel was running a Ponzi scheme.
"We already get intimations of a New York cookbook in Cresswell's vivid descriptions of her afternoons with Morel. She leaves him tied and blindfolded in the hotel room to take in exhibitions at the museum of art and indulge in lemon meringue pie or a chocolate milkshake in the hotel's lobby. During a particular afternoon break from her duties, she also ventures to lunch on a turkey sandwich at a Greek diner in Hell's Kitchen. Her explorations give her an opportunity to provide the first of many recipes in the novel--that of the homely Russian Dressing--a concoction of ketchup, mayonnaise and horseradish, which she pegs as key to a successful turkey sandwich. Cresswell always manages to imbue a simple dish with ineffable qualities and significance.
"There are special challenges to fusing a novel and a cookbook. Sometimes the recipes appear in the narrative with natural ease. At other times they look forced, for instance, when appended to the end of the profile of a new prison-mate. But the virtues of Olle's novel outweigh its flaws.
"Cresswell's romp through prison winds its way through 'killer' recipes, easy camaraderie and darkly comic tales of miscarried justice. She collects cooking stories from fellow prisoners in exchange for Newport cigarettes, and uses their recipes as a Rorschach test to their distinct, idiosyncratic personalities.'I was an anthropologist excavating culturally diverse cooking traditions,' Cresswell muses. She befriends a gallery of female rogues, more sinned-against than sinning--they remind one of the musical, Chicago, though Olle's characters are decidedly less venal and more friendly.
"The recipes are infused with nostalgia and yearning for the way the inmates' lives used to be. They also carry the spirit of circumscribed lives--the recipes are delightfully inventive and don't call for extravagant ingredients. Jasmine Rice, accused of strangling her cheating husband, gives her the recipe for a vegan bean dip. Fanta, a rich woman from Madison Avenue with no culinary skills, shares the only dish she can prepare--organic beetroot dog biscuits for her 'beloved Shih Tzu.' Saltine, wrongfully convicted for vagrancy in Central Park, shares a Brazilian recipe for cheese puff or pão de queijo, best enjoyed with a glass of chilled wine or sherry.
"Then there is Cresswell's own country pie, which as she fibs to her prison friends, she cooked for Bob Dylan during a dalliance--a delicious-looking zucchini, mushroom and tomato concoction in a cheddar crust.
"A flirtation between Cresswell and Pruno, imprisoned for impersonating her dead husband, gives rise to an occasion for Prison Wine, made 'of fermented oranges, sugar cubes and ketchup' (Olle notes in the recipe section that the beverage is inspired by 'Recipe for Prison Pruno,' a poem by Jarvis Masters). The most intriguingly-named recipe--Engagement Chicken with Marry me Juice--is shared by Julienne, who is in prison for killing two fiancés who left her at the altar. The Marry Me juice turns out to be the all-too-familiar lemon juice with which the baked chicken is liberally doused.
"If we take Olle's latest book to be a culinary parable about healthy cooking no matter where life may take you, the prison setting certainly helps. When she finally gains the privilege of working in the jailhouse kitchen, Cresswell prepares a 'mirepoix: onion, carrot, celery, referred to as the holy trinity, sautéed in the pan before the rest of the stew or soup ingredients are thrown in. We made white sauce (béchamel), hollandaise (lemon and cream), garlic aioli, and Sicilian tomato sauce. Each of the sauces was served with a medley of steamed vegetables and noodles. It was very simple, healthy and elegant.'
"Olle describes her fiction as a 'cautionary tale' from the Upper East Side, a character in the vein of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, who lives in beautiful environs not by dint of her wealth, but by cultivating the arts of adventurous ingenuity and thrift. After her release from prison, Creswell looks forward to returning not to the glamor of her neighborhood but the warmth of her home: 'How I longed to get back into my kitchen and turn up the heat!'"
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Parsley Does Thyme The Upper East Side Cookbook Book 3 edition by Linda Olle Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It's off to the big house with Parsley Cresswell - heroine of the Upper East Side Cookbook series. The third in the series, Parsley Does Thyme, is my favorite - a good read and a good time.
This time out, Parsley tells her own story. From start to finish - it's a hoot with Parsley and her band of inmates at a medium security women's correctional institute in upstate New York as they trade recipes and life experiences. The book is full of memorable characters, situations, humor and wit.
Is being well-born, creative, and fanciful a crime? Apparently so! I was totally fascinated by the unexpected character study of Parsley in jail, how she made a few not-that-terrible decisions that landed her there (haven't we all made a few specious calls that could have turned out badly?), and her vibrant, then flagging, then vibrant spirit, and how she works out her own vision of reality and survival -- her form of triumph -- in and then out of prison. Brava, Linda Olle! I so admire what you did as a writer.
One of my favorite local food writers always had a story to go along with her recipe. So when I bought this ebook I was really happy to get into the story & food format again. The nice thing about this ebook is just clicking on the link and getting a gorgeous photo and recipe and getting back to the story without any problems. Not all books work that flawlessly, but this one does. I like the characters and Linda's sense of humor. The recipes are really good too. Food and entertainment, you can't beat that!
Once again, and for the third volume (UPPER EAST SIDE COOKBOOK series), Parsley Cresswell is totally charming—this time in the worst environment, prison. Even here, she shines, and does her best to appear elegant in her prison uniform. Parsley extracts a good number of eclectic recipes from the colorful characters locked up with her while doing her “thyme”. Their crimes, as related through Parsley, are sometimes delightful, such as the embezzler who impersonated her dead husband to the tune of $200,000. Sometimes not, like the serial murderer who poisoned both her fiancés after being twice left at the altar.
Part novella and part cookbook, both elements congeal to celebrate a love of food and style. The photos accompanying many of the recipes are mouthwatering and in some cases, laugh-out-loud-funny at the same time. (Such as the one from the jilted bride, Engagement Chicken with Marry Me Juice).
Linda Olle’s writing, like her main character, Parsley, is full of irrepressible grace, optimism, and humor.
By Srila Nayak "Linda Olle's PARSLEY DOES THYME (The Upper East Side Cookbook) is the latest in her three-volume recipe-filled account of the life of Parsley Cresswell, a devotee and practitioner of simple yet artful and inventive cooking, who, through unfortunate circumstances, lands in prison. The series skilfully sutures fiction, recipes and photographs to create a mock memoir of Cresswell, a former writer and restaurant critic.
"The protagonist hails from the Upper East Side, which is described as a decadent and enchanting court of Bergdorf's and Madison Avenue couture. The neighborhood's bejewelled socialites are sometimes called out as shoplifters and bad tippers and, at least, one of them, Cresswell's neighbor, was duped into buying a forged Gauguin. Creswell journeys from her posh neighborhood to a medium-security prison, which she nicknames Camp Crêpes Suzette, because it is a tremendous improvement upon her initial term in Rikers. She observes,'The cafeteria had a healthy salad bar in a colorful setting, with a revolving art exhibition. Prison should be like this, if incarceration is supposed to turn out better members of society.' Here she embraces the classless fellowship of female prisoners. They reciprocate by sharing their heirloom recipes with her.
"At one point, she enlightens her fellow inmates '"Do you know what foie gras is?" I gave my sister inmates a long and terrifying description of fatted goose liver and its price tag. Then I said, "Well, my rich neighbors eat foie gras all the time." The women in the surrounding cells shuddered.'
"In the latest installment, Cresswell finally gets to tell her story in her own voice. (The first two novels of the series are narrated by Fran E. Smith, Cresswell's 'delightful and resourceful next-door neighbor.') Olle's Upper East Side Cookbook Series made its debut in 2009 with The Upper Eastside Cookbook Setting the Table in a Time of Slender Means and was followed by the 2011, The Upper Eastside Cookbook Main Course. Olle, a resident of Carnegie Hill in Manhattan, has been lauded for her entrepreneurial daring--she self-published her books through her very own Parsley Press.
"While Olle may loosely channel popular models of profligacy, excess and corruption such as Martha Stewart and Bernie Madoff, Cresswell turns out to be interesting in her own right--she is both self-indulgent and ascetic, worldly and sentimental. She reminisces in prison about her neighborhood, 'Dorothy Parker said when she lived on the Upper East Side at the Volney, "I get up every morning and I want to kiss the pavement." I feel at my truly happiest when I'm in the kitchen with the radio on, with something in the oven set on low or soup simmering in the stove for hours.'
"In a profile in The New Yorker, Olle reveals her fascination with the prison tales of Madoff and Stewart. But there are a couple important differences between Cresswell and corporate titans such as Stewart that make her a sympathetic protagonist. Although Cresswell yearns for her 'comparatively scintillating' former life on the Upper East Side, she is nevertheless on the fringes of that society. She dreams of an electric grill in her kitchen 'for steaks and fish and sweet corn' and makes plans to auction her clothes and antiques to make ends meet after her release from prison. Also, she ends up in prison through no fault of her own.
"Cresswell's path to prison forms a hilarious subplot. Rendered unemployed by the dot-com bust, Cresswell makes a 'pragmatic decision' to briefly work as a dominatrix. The job is easy enough. All she has to do is gently whip a certain Mr. Morel with a 'tasselled flogger' in a room at a posh midtown hotel. One of their assignations ends badly when Morel suffers a heart attack and dies. Cresswell is amazed to find herself charged with insider trading, as, unbeknownst to her, Morel was running a Ponzi scheme.
"We already get intimations of a New York cookbook in Cresswell's vivid descriptions of her afternoons with Morel. She leaves him tied and blindfolded in the hotel room to take in exhibitions at the museum of art and indulge in lemon meringue pie or a chocolate milkshake in the hotel's lobby. During a particular afternoon break from her duties, she also ventures to lunch on a turkey sandwich at a Greek diner in Hell's Kitchen. Her explorations give her an opportunity to provide the first of many recipes in the novel--that of the homely Russian Dressing--a concoction of ketchup, mayonnaise and horseradish, which she pegs as key to a successful turkey sandwich. Cresswell always manages to imbue a simple dish with ineffable qualities and significance.
"There are special challenges to fusing a novel and a cookbook. Sometimes the recipes appear in the narrative with natural ease. At other times they look forced, for instance, when appended to the end of the profile of a new prison-mate. But the virtues of Olle's novel outweigh its flaws.
"Cresswell's romp through prison winds its way through 'killer' recipes, easy camaraderie and darkly comic tales of miscarried justice. She collects cooking stories from fellow prisoners in exchange for Newport cigarettes, and uses their recipes as a Rorschach test to their distinct, idiosyncratic personalities.'I was an anthropologist excavating culturally diverse cooking traditions,' Cresswell muses. She befriends a gallery of female rogues, more sinned-against than sinning--they remind one of the musical, Chicago, though Olle's characters are decidedly less venal and more friendly.
"The recipes are infused with nostalgia and yearning for the way the inmates' lives used to be. They also carry the spirit of circumscribed lives--the recipes are delightfully inventive and don't call for extravagant ingredients. Jasmine Rice, accused of strangling her cheating husband, gives her the recipe for a vegan bean dip. Fanta, a rich woman from Madison Avenue with no culinary skills, shares the only dish she can prepare--organic beetroot dog biscuits for her 'beloved Shih Tzu.' Saltine, wrongfully convicted for vagrancy in Central Park, shares a Brazilian recipe for cheese puff or pão de queijo, best enjoyed with a glass of chilled wine or sherry.
"Then there is Cresswell's own country pie, which as she fibs to her prison friends, she cooked for Bob Dylan during a dalliance--a delicious-looking zucchini, mushroom and tomato concoction in a cheddar crust.
"A flirtation between Cresswell and Pruno, imprisoned for impersonating her dead husband, gives rise to an occasion for Prison Wine, made 'of fermented oranges, sugar cubes and ketchup' (Olle notes in the recipe section that the beverage is inspired by 'Recipe for Prison Pruno,' a poem by Jarvis Masters). The most intriguingly-named recipe--Engagement Chicken with Marry me Juice--is shared by Julienne, who is in prison for killing two fiancés who left her at the altar. The Marry Me juice turns out to be the all-too-familiar lemon juice with which the baked chicken is liberally doused.
"If we take Olle's latest book to be a culinary parable about healthy cooking no matter where life may take you, the prison setting certainly helps. When she finally gains the privilege of working in the jailhouse kitchen, Cresswell prepares a 'mirepoix onion, carrot, celery, referred to as the holy trinity, sautéed in the pan before the rest of the stew or soup ingredients are thrown in. We made white sauce (béchamel), hollandaise (lemon and cream), garlic aioli, and Sicilian tomato sauce. Each of the sauces was served with a medley of steamed vegetables and noodles. It was very simple, healthy and elegant.'
"Olle describes her fiction as a 'cautionary tale' from the Upper East Side, a character in the vein of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London, who lives in beautiful environs not by dint of her wealth, but by cultivating the arts of adventurous ingenuity and thrift. After her release from prison, Creswell looks forward to returning not to the glamor of her neighborhood but the warmth of her home 'How I longed to get back into my kitchen and turn up the heat!'"
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