Home Work: Mini all-book–news edition

Breaking my usual format for a quick few notes:

• Goodreads is hosting a giveaway of my book! Deadline to enter is March 28. Hence getting this email out today. Click through to enter.

• If you teach home economics/family and consumer sciences, how have you been incorporating the pandemic into your class? I have a bunch of interviews (!) coming up and I’d like to be able to talk about this. Just respond to this email to let me know.

• I haz events! All virtual for now. Which has the downside of being less exciting but the upside that you can attend them from wherever you live without putting on hard pants. We’ll also be giving away a cross-stitch kit during each event with a home ec–themed design created by moi while procrastinating over writing the book.

  Tuesday, May 4, 7 p.m. Eastern
  Midtown Scholar Bookstore
  Harrisburg, PA
  Publication day! conversation with Susan Douglas

  Friday, May 7, time TBD
  Porter Square Books
  Cambridge, MA
  Conversation with Ann Hood
  (This is especially exciting because when I first lived in Boston, the core of my social life was a knitting group at a little store across the parking lot. Also I wrote a fun article about a PSB café employee who sold all her things and ran off to join the circus.)

  Sunday, May 9, 2 p.m. Central
  Magic City Books
  Tulsa, OK
  Mother’s Day conversation with Nina MacLaughlin

And speaking of mothers …

Recipe of the Month: Chocolate Matzoh Toffee

In honor of Passover, here’s my mother’s famous dessert recipe, which I will be making tomorrow.

1/2 lb. matzoh (half box)
1 c. butter or margarine
1 c. packed dark brown sugar
12 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
1 c. chopped nuts (optional)

Heat oven to 450 degrees. On a greased cookie sheet [with sides - djd interpolation], fit in matzoh in one layer, covering entire pan (some may be left over).

Melt butter with brown sugar. Boil until mixture coats a spoon (3–5 minutes or more). Pour and spread over matzoh. Bake 4 minutes and remove from oven. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top and bake 1 minute.

Remove from oven and gently spread melted chocolate to cover as completely as possible. Sprinkle with nuts if desired.

Refrigerate until completely cool. Bread into pieces and refrigerate in covered tin.

Makes about 2 lbs. candy.

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You can preorder my book The Secret History of Home Economics, out May 4, just in time for Mother’s Day presents! If someone forwarded this email to you, subscribe to it here.

Photo: Library of Congress, “NYA (National Youth Administration) girls making bedspreads under supervision of Juanita Coleman, NYA leader, in school home economics room. Gee's Bend, Alabama,” May 1939.

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