Essays & Media

G.P. Gottlieb has always loved music—this was something her cancer couldn’t defeat. And after treatment, she found a way to share the joy of music with other cancer warriors.

This is a vcast that features author, G.P.Gottlieb and her recipe for carrot-top dip that appears in her book "Battered: A Whipped & Sipped Mystery"

I was flipping through the Chicago Tribune like I do every morning...

Galit Gottlieb's “culinary mystery” Battered: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery is part of the library's Local Collection, a space on the second floor next to the Reference desk. Created by local writers and artists, the materials in this collection include novels, nonfiction, short stories, music, scores, and films for patrons to browse and check out.

With the release of book 2, Smothered, we decided to go with a written Q&A instead.

When I first started baking challah, it came out looking like pita. I was pregnant and we’d moved to Colorado Springs. I had to go to the library to look up high altitude baking (this was in the eighties) and while I was there, I picked up an old book on a display shelf.

Not to complain, but are you seriously going to tell me about the tiny cut at the edge of your nail that you think might be a chilblain?