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About the Author
Well-known and highly-regarded “Chicken Soup” contributor & newspaper food columnist Cynthia Briggs is the author of the following books:
• Pork Chops & Applesauce: A Collection of Recipes and Reflections
• Sweet Apple Temptations
Cynthia Briggs’ “Chicken Soup” contributions include essays in:
• Chicken Soup for the Mother and Son Soul
• Chicken Soup for the Sister’s Soul 2
• Chicken Soup for the Soul, Divorce and Recovery
• Chicken Soup for the Soul, My Resolution
Cynthia's popular newspaper food columns (over 200 of them) have appeared in various publications since 1999. Her work has also appeared in New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Woman, Funds for Writers and more.
She has talked “food, writing and techniques for living a more gratifying life” on radio and TV, at rotary clubs and women’s associations, and at schools and universities.
About her recipes and stories, Cynthia says, “Your Roasted Garlic Potatoes are in the oven baking along with your Surprise Parmesan Meatloaf. Your Pear Pie with Crunchy Pecan Crust is cooling on the counter . . . The dishes are done, the cut flowers are in a vase on the dining room table, and the whole house smells like paradise! Now it’s time to sit and rest while you wait for the guests to arrive. How better to unwind than to read one or two of the nostalgic and often humorous stories that introduce many of the recipes in Pork Chops & Applesauce?” |
Cynthia
Briggs message in Pork Chops & Applesauce is about focusing on whats important in life; and how taking a break to reflect upon memorable family gatherings and the sharing of comfort food dinners provides a respite from the fast pace of living in todays hectic world. Cynthia hopes that through reading Pork Chops you will come to believe, as she does, that "all culinary hearts beat as one."
Briggs takes pleasure in recounting the easiness of simpler times growing up on an Oregon homestead, coupled with the humorous adventures of raising her children on a Pacific Northwest farm. She encourages you to bring back the tradition of family dinners to satisfy everyone's eager appetites while providing nourishment to their hearts and souls, which she feels is the key to a more centered and grounded lifestyle.
Briggs makes her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband, Ed, and their favorite dachshund, Leon.
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