The View From My Kitchen Window: A Memoir with Recipes

This book is a chronological journey of the kitchens in Julie Kalt Gale's life. The book is a memoir of her life through the stories and recipes of the family and friends who raised her. The stories center on the delicious food prepared and the characters who cooked them. The original drawings have been designed specifically for this book by the author and her son, Tobias. There are 110 recipes that represent foods of the times, from the 1950s to the present day. The recipes include many family heirlooms that were preserved on little scraps of paper that would have disintegrated if they had not been preserved in this book. The recipes run through the alphabet-from Apple Dumplings to Zucchini Tempura.

Julie Gale opened At the Kitchen Table Cooking School in 2001. She was the writer of "Dine and Wine" for The Larchmont Gazette. She has been teaching cooking in Westchester and Columbia Counties, New York, since then.Gale received a Master's in Social Work from Yeshiva University in 1981 and had a private practice in Westchester until moving to Columbia County in the Northern Hudson Valley. She lives in rural Hillsdale, New York with her husband, and together they have four grown children who live in Hudson, Nashville, Boulder and London.