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St Martin's Press

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America by Michael A. McDonnell

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May 2016, no. 381
Glenn Moore reviews 'Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the making of America' by Michael A. McDonnell

Michael McDonnell knew he had a bestseller on his hands. Historical biographies regularly top the New York Times bestseller list, and his research uncovered a larger than life figure named Charles de Langlade. Born in 1729 to an Indian mother and a French-Canadian father, Langlade grew up straddling two cultures, but that did not stop him from becoming a le ...

One Soufflé at a Time: A Memoir of food and France by Anne Willan

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December 2013–January 2014, no. 357
Gay Bilson reviews 'One Soufflé at a Time: A memoir of food and France' by Anne Willan

Not everyone’s father sends his daughter a brace of pheasants while she is studying economics at Cambridge. With a choice of two gas rings on which to cook them, Anne Willan eviscerated and plucked the birds, then used one gas ring to cook a pheasant casserole and the other to make a caramel custard that she ‘steamed over a galvanised tin laundry bucket’. She was, I’d guess, nineteen.

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