Posts Tagged: Donia Bijan
April 9, 2013
Lucky 7 for April: Thinking of Mom
From Freudian to sentimental, our thoughts turn to mom this time of year. This month’s collection of Lucky 7 e-books–just $1.99 each through April 30–looks at the complex, comforting, and confounding relationships …
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September 1, 2012
Lucky 7 for September: Food, Glorious Food
Food, Glorious Food Food is language. Food is love. Food is family. Food is fun. Fill up your plate—and your e-reader—with these tasty morsels of perfectly priced e-books. They’re all just $1.99 …
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December 14, 2011
Algonquin’s Guide to Gift Giving, Winter 2011
I always wait until the last minute to buy Christmas and Chanukah presents for my family. It’s not because shopping slips my mind, or because I forget about the holidays or my …
December 7, 2011
Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Books They’ve Read in 2011, Part 2
Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie This was the year of displaced persons. The Invisible Bridge, by Julie Orringer. The untold story of Hungarian Jews forced to flee as Europe’s tragedy …
November 22, 2011
Bread Stuffing from Maman’s Homesick Pie
From all of us at Algonquin, Happy Thanksgiving! We present you with this delicious Bread Stuffing recipe from Maman’s Homesick Pie. My Mother’s Bread Stuffing Stuffing for a 12- to 15 …
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October 6, 2011
At Home With Algonquin: Chicken, Rice, and Eggplant … Cake! From Maman’s Homesick Pie
Whether I’m writing a poem, reading a novel, or walking at dusk, I like to take my time and savor every moment of the experience. I also love the thrill of conquering …
September 14, 2011
At Home With Algonquin: Cocoa Pound Cake from Maman’s Homesick Pie
Madame’s Cocoa Pound Cake Madame, the lady who ran the lunch kiosk at my school in Iran, made two simple cakes every day, spice and cocoa. She displayed them under a cake …
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August 24, 2011
Algonquin Authors Pick Their Favorite Summer Reads: Part 2
This summer I’m revisiting Sinclair Lewis, whom despite being the first American writer awarded the Nobel, along with the first to refuse the Pulitzer, seems to have fallen out of vogue in …
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