Dear faithful Culinary Cellar readers,
I am going to San Francisco to visit my Mom for awhile, and need to give her all my attention, especially since we will be celebrating her 89th birthday! My blogs will return on Wednesday, September 1st. In the meantime, you can still leave me messages or emails (I would love that!), plus I will still give away some great cookbooks, which are at the end of this blog, but I won’t be able to mail them to the winners until I get back home. I will miss you all, but I wanted to leave you with some of my favorite older blogs to read, starting with the first one ever, just in case you haven’t gone back far enough on my site to read them:
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/02/welcome-to-my-first-ever-blog-entry.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/02/bert-greenes-kitchen-bouquets-and.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/05/vincent-price-cooks-now-thats-scary.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/time-i-almost-had-lunch-with-paul.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/clementine-paddleford-american-original.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/04/time-bear-almost-ate-me-well-sort-of.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/mrs-b-and-craig-claibornes-herb-and.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/06/hunts-tomato-sauce-and-great-spaghetti.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-feeling-blue.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/somewhere-in-time.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/someones-in-kitchen-with-dinah.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/06/road-tasted-1950s-style.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/05/hog-wild-and-how-my-daughter-became.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/remarkable-journey-of-bernard-clayton.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/04/million-dollar-experience-from.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/03/marlon-brando-lived-here.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-mom-is-original-martha-stewart.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/05/cooking-with-ephraim-from-hadassah.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-first-cookbook.html
http://theculinarycellar.blogspot.com/2010/04/yes-virginia-there-really-is-culinary.html
Here are my cookbook give-aways while I am gone. Enter one or all of them! Just remember to leave me your name and email address or I won’t be able to contact you. You can enter at [email protected] or [email protected] I will contact all the winners when I return on September 1st, so you have plenty of time to enter the drawings. Just have all entries to me by midnight Monday, August 30th. So here goes!

Happy Birthday to your Mom and happy holidays!