TALES FROM MY TABLE: FOOD FOR THOUGHT
by ANN TUDOR
An original audio CD written and narrated by ANN TUDOR (who? see below)
Original musical interludes. 13 recipes in PC CD-ROM format. 75 minutes of entertainment!
# MG 03 from Molten Gold Productions, a division of Gothic Epicures. c2005 Ann Tudor
ISBN-10: 0-920003-04-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-920003-04-6
$17.50 CDN or US, which includes shipping & handling
You may order and pay in Canadian or US funds by sending Ann a cheque. Send her email to ann@anntudor.ca (be sure to include your mailing address). Ann will confirm the order.
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You'll laugh! You'll cry! You'll smile with recognition!
These are stories you can listen to many times over. Funny, bittersweet, and thought-provoking in turn, they explore the way food influences our lives and our memories.
If you like food, you'll resonate with Ann's passion for corn, figs, avocados, and more.
If you like stories, you'll come back again and again to Troy's Girls, Frozen Peas, and Heart of My Heart. Listen to Troy's Girls
-- here's an mp3 file for you to download and to enjoy.
If you like learning about others through their memories, you'll open your heart to Julia and I, A Rice Tale, and The Way to a Man's Heart.
Listening to these stories you will learn about relationships, about life, and about the thrill of eating what you love to eat and cooking what you love to cook. You will learn how food helps us shape our memories. You'll learn a lot about a lot of things, in fact, and you'll be fully entertained as you do so.
Unlike many spoken-word CDs, this one is not an abridged book but a collection of 12 ORIGINAL stories written just for this CD.
WHO IS ANN TUDOR?
ANN TUDOR is a Toronto writer of creative non-fiction whose current work includes memoirs and collections of personal essays. She has published two previous spoken-word CDs (2002 and 2004), and her earlier publishing credits in the United States and Canada (books and magazine articles) date from 1974. This CD reflects the varied experiences of a lifetime: church organist, copy editor, craftsperson, wife-mother-grandmother, cook, food writer, cello student, hands-on healer,and managing editor. Look at the MANDALA that she has created for the CD label. From each of her vocations and avocations she has coaxed a little additional information on how to make it through the journey. If you have any comments about her work, or would like to learn more, email Ann at ann@anntudor.ca.
GIFT SHOPPING TIPS
To simplify your gift shopping, consider giving this delightful audio book CD of stories about food. A starter list of people who would like to receive a copy would include hosteses and your friends who have everything, plus all these people...* Your friends who listen to spoken word while they jog, walk or run
* Your friends who rely on spoken-word CDs to entertain them as they drive
* Your book club members
* Your children's teachers
* Your hostess who loves her kitchen
* Your Aunt Elsie
* Your secret pal in the office holiday draw
* Your picky eater friend
* Your Santa's helper who fills the stockings
How you can save money
The modest price for 1 to 4 CDs is $17.50 CDN or US (includes shipping and handling for each CD). If you buy 5 - 9 copies, each CD is $14 CDN or US plus postage (rates vary; email for a quote). For 10 copies or more, each CD is $13 CDN or US plus variable postage. It's true: the more you buy the more you save! (These volume discounts apply only to CDs sent to one address).
How your shopping can be even easier
If you have far-flung gift recipients and you don't have time to shop, wrap, and send a gift, we'll do it for you. We will modestly wrap, tag, package and send the CD to any North American address. You don't do anything except pay $17.50 CDN or US, which includes postage, for each CD you order. (Remember that the volume discounts above apply only to multiple copies sent to a single address.)
REVIEWS IN THE MEDIA
Gremolata No 47, October 28, 2005
Frank Baldock's Wine Express Fall 2005
Village Gleaner October 2005
WHERE ELSE CAN I FIND IT?
"Tales from My Table" is available across Canada. In Halifax, try Atlantic News, 5560 Morris Street, Halifax B3J 1C2. In Wolfville, Nova Scotia, it is available at Tempest Restaurant. Check the following Toronto stores: Book City (2350 Bloor Street West location only, 416-766-9412), The CookBook Store (850 Yonge Street, 416-920-2665), and Spoken Word Audiobooks (350 Bay Street, 416-368-1027). In Vancouver, it is available at Barbara-Jo's Books to Cooks (1740 West 2nd Avenue, 604-688-6755). Support your local retailers and booksellers!!
READINGS & APPEARANCES
On Wednesday, October 5/05, Ann successfully read stories from the CD and four of her other food writings at the Annette Public Library, Toronto -- to a packed house. To book a reading or an interview, email Ann at ann@anntudor.ca.
BOUNTIFUL PRAISE
Ann Tudor has had lifelong love affair with food. If you eavesdrop on her culinary confessions she will lead you into orchards and fresh fields of gastronomic delight. You will share her kitchen triumphs and her tragedies but a warning - don't listen to this disc on an empty stomach; and have a glass of wine at your elbow. Anne's passion for the taste of food will stimulate your appetite, your memory and your mind. --Tony Aspler, wine writer; www.tony aspler.com
In "Tales from My Table" Tudor whets your tastebuds and feeds your soul. In a voice as clear and compelling as her native Indiana sky, she takes you on a journey of obvious love: food as it is grown, prepared and - most importantly - consumed. She cherishes it all. And it is infectious. From her ode to the humble pea to her hilarious account of trying to impress friends with a complicated and - as it turns out - bottomless timpano, Tudor underscores what every foodie knows: that the only thing (possibly) better than eating food is talking about food. Never has corn sounded so satisfyingly crunchy, tomatoes so mouth-wateringly fresh, and creme caramel so sinfully decadent. To Tudor food is life. It nourishes, teaches and sustains. And therefore demands to be celebrated. If you've ever caught yourself daydreaming about an exquisitely ripe avacado or a singularly perfect fig and felt guilty, take heart. In Ann Tudor you have found a kindred foodie spirit. Indulge! --Gillian Findlay, CBC host: the fifth estate
Ann Tudor's "Tales from My Table: Food for Thought" is a vital and tasty romp exploring the reminiscences of an ordinary (yet at the same time extraordinary) life. It’s a savoury look at existence, love, tastes and sensations that help decide the course of our family lives. I loved it and really wanted to eat that fresh-picked corn! --Michael Howell, Chef/Proprietor, Tempest Restaurant, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
Ann Tudor is the most seductive foodie you will ever welcome into your kitchen. Her enchanting stories and reassuring voice are a delightfully delicious introduction to fresh food, intriguing recipes and the human heart. You will never look at an ear of corn or a fresh pea or a pat of butter in the same way again. --Steve Lawrence, Editor and Publisher of Crosswinds Weekly, Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico