We lived in Torrington, Wyoming, when my husband finished graduate school for the first time. The terrain is high rolling plains, with the mountains close by. The story is set in southeast Wyoming, about 100 miles north of Cheyenne and not too far from the Nebraska border. Otto and Julia are chalk and cheese, because they both "assume" more than they know about the other. In that low mood, and on a whim, she answers an ad in the Deseret News titled "Rancher Desperate." Paul Otto, long-time Wyoming rancher, wants a cook who is specifically a grad of Fannie Farmer's school.
Her little sister (!) is getting married that morning in the Salt Lake Temple, and Julia is feeling decidedly OLD.
The year in 1909, and she's home again in Salt Lake City, rather unhappily engaged to a fine fellow that everything thinks is perfect for her - except her. Julia Darling is a newly minted graduate of Boston's Fannie Farmer School of Cookery. Think of "home economics," and the use of calibrated measurements, and you'll get the drift. Perfection Salad reads like someone's dissertation, and it's the story of the growth of scientific cooking, which developed around the turn of the 20th century. I got the idea from a marvelous book called Perfection Salad, which I picked up in a used book store in Denton, Texas, years ago. (And no, I do not shove religion down anyone's throat in this book. At some point, we all have to be guided by our own light, and not stand in borrowed light. But having said that, it's a book anyone would enjoy, Mormon or not, because a lot of us go through the kind of growing up that Julia does. So, if readers are looking for more than a kiss, some sexual tension, etc., they won't be happy campers. I'm told it will also be available in Kindle.īorrowed Light is my first - and absolutely not last - novel with an LDS theme. Yikes, that's about more than my brain can process, but hey, I might manage. The cover isn't up yet, but I'll see if I can figure out how to upload the tip sheet onto this blog. So far, Amazon has the book buried down my list of books.
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