Find a comfortable and well worn leather chair, settle back with a warm cup of coffee and read Simply Whidbey. Nestled between the pages you'll find yourself captivated by the soft songs of Whidbey Island's history merging with the flavors of the Pacific Northwest. Simply Whidbey is more than just another cookbook, it's a collection of adventures in food shared by real Northwesterners.

I have made many of the recipies in this cookbook and have not come across a bad one yet. The seafood one are particularly good. I highly recommend making the Chocolate Lover's cake.

"It was unfair when you looked so much like that small dot of stupidity that was in you, as if that dot were the whole of it and nothing more."--"Molly Flanagan and the Holy Ghost." This novel invites us into a little girl's world with precious detail and smart, hard-hitting statements such as the one above that open a window on the world by moving past the story at hand and shedding light on Living. Skinner paints her characters with a fine touch--she captures the ache of a younger sister with a intellectual, talented brother who just seems to Do Everything Well. And you learn to love Molly, with her double vision and her religious obsessions, her frustrated piano playing and her intuition about other people's troubles. I am very surprised that this is an out-of-print book but perhaps someone will soon come to their senses and put it back into circulation.