Sample recipes, a calendar of speaking engagements and demos, and more delectable goodies reside on the Jam It website - http://www.JamItPickleItCureIt.com.

I'm not kidding.  I got a little sick to my stomach.  Perhaps some of the recipes should just have Xanax mixed right in?

 Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It is available, somewhere, somehow, in print.  I'm just the author.  No one tells me anything.  However, last night at about 8pm my most fave UPS delivery person landed a fully finished copy into my grubby mitts.  

I encourage you to follow my Twitter feed, @chef140, for regular installments of full recipes (no URL's) of daily recipes.  Contributions welcome!

OK,so, like any good twelve-stepper with a problem, I have a confession to make: I am completely addicted to Twitter.

I would never in a billion years call myself an early adopter; but then again, I'm not easily daunted by setting the clock on the microwave, either. But Twitter is my newest. latest, and greatest raison d'tech. It reminds me of the unchartered landscape that the Internet was to me back in 1993.

Lately I've been blogging about feeding my kid on Facebook.  I dunno why I've moved my musings over to the social networking side.  Maybe because there I have a captive audience? :>

Anyhoo, if you're interested, you can find them here.

If you'd like to consider a future review of my cook book, out in the spring, drop me an email - ks at ksolomon.com.

The year in winding down work-wise, but the wheels of publicity are in gear. Looks like I'll be at the Ferry Bldg. in the fall, with other gigs in the works. Keep ya posted...

Most writers toil away in utter obscurity, the sole, lonely individual alone at the keyboard, stepping up to the microphone of life and asking, "Testing, testing, is this thing on?"

And every once in a while, we're handed a lovely springtime bouquet from the blogosphere. Some kind fellows over at Bay Area Food Blog were kind enough to call me their Food Crush of the Month. Here's what they had to say:

I'm finally blogging about moi again after a year's worth of technical difficulties. I simply refuse to call this an end-of-the-year-wrap-up because that is just so annoyingly tacky. However, here's what I've been working on of late, and it just happens to be nearing the end of the year.

My cookbook with Ten Speed Press will indeed be out in June of '09. Jam It, Pickle It, Cure It And Other Cooking Projects: Make Your Own Bacon, Cheese, Marshmallows, and More is a collection of project-based cookery for the kitchen crafter and food enthusiast. You WILL make sausage, cheese, crackers, booze, render your own lard, churn your own butter, etc., all from the comfort of your cramped urban kitchen, with the fewest tools possible. I'm reviewing page proofs now and it is simultaneously thrilling and terrifying. Oh, and the photos by Jennifer Martine are simply stunning.

YOU!  Yeah, you.  I'm thrilled to announce that I have just sold my first cookbook -

DIY Kitchen: 25 Edible Crafts for the Weekend Warrior
Make - Don’t Buy - Olives, Ketchup, Cheese, Salumi, Crackers, Dressings, and More

To Ten Speed Press who, so far, is awesome.   Should I send out a birth announcement or something?  I'm very excited about this.  More to come as this develops.

It's true.  We are.  Just ask any of them.  And to celebrate my laziness, I'm going to post several month's worth of what I've been working on below.

 I have two upcoming stories in the Feb. ish of San Francisco Magazine - one a travel piece on totally interesting Sonora, and one profile of Yelp that is sure to garner me a one-star review by their devoted audience of regular site users.