Karyl Bannister

Karyl Bannister has produced a homely newsletter with her own, apparently casual but extremely accomplished, illustrations, from her home off the Maine coast since 1982. The newsletter continues, as of 2011, in paper copy which is a delight to receive, when most other newsletters have gone to the web. I guess one can print from the internet but it is just not the same as getting an issue in the post and setting aside some coffee time to sit and read. A home cook, rather than gourmet - real food that actually gets made, with a chatty intro to each recipe. Simple but delicious is the Golden Carrot Soup - adding a red pepper lifts it well above the workaday.… (meer)