I’ll be back at my alma mater during Reunion Weekend, for a book signing at the Stanford Bookstore. I hope you’ll come back to campus and stop in and see me!

Local food blogger Lisa Prince Newman shares her beautiful and unique cookbook, For the Love of Apricots: Recipes and Memories of the Santa Clara Valley. With more than 60 recipes beginning with Breakfast and ending with Cocktails, and complete with stunning photos showcasing Lisa’s recipes as well as the Santa Clara Valley landscape, this is a true celebration of California’s apricot orchards.

For the Love of Apricots is also a feast for the eyes as well as the mind. Beautiful food photography blends with images of California’s apricot orchards; from today as well as not so long ago, when fruit orchards covered much of the Santa Clara Valley landscape. Reflections on what the famed Valley of Heart’s Delight was like, how it changed, and what remains, add another dimension to the cookbook.