Events
Talks and presentations MAY to JULY 2026
To keep up with my most recent presenations and chats, please follow my Substack page, The Kasbah Chronicles, also on this site. SATURDAY MAY 5th: Mission Hills, San Diego, CA Private Book Club THURSDAY MAY 14, 2026. University of California Diego Library Bitter Sweet: Daily Life in Occupied...
Coronado Historical Society, Bitter Sweet chat and presentation Coronado, CA
November 6, 2025 Please join me in Coronado for a reception and chat...My husband and I were stationed in Coronado in the early 1970s.. I am going "home" and I am thrilled to benefit the historical society's celebration. Tickets required. KPBS Events Lectures & Classes, Heritage &...
SAVE THE DATE: Presentation and Book Signing in Santa Barbara, CA
At the beautiful Lodo Studios, Santa Barbara, CA 216 East Guttierez Street Saturday, July 19th, 2025, 2-4PM Please tell your friends, and feel free to reproduce this flyer: Screenshot
Bitter Sweet: A BBC travel newsletter mention!
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250605-how-world-war-two-changed-the-french-diet How World War Two changed how France eats June 6, 2025 Emily Monaco More than 80 years after D-Day, the recipes and ingredients introduced during France's wartime occupation are slowly making a comeback. By June...
July 2024: kittymorse.com is going through an update
Would you believe I began writing The Kasbah Chronicles and this website in 2010 or 2011... It's time for a major update. I love feedback. Keep in touch! Please bear with me. It is really coming. Thank you so much for remaining a reader.
The Kasbah Chronicles: June 2024 KCRW Santa Monica radio interview
To my dismay, I realize how infrequently I post news on my website. I give all my news in my sort-of-monthly blog, The Kasbah Chronicles, which I send out through Substack. I always mean to post the blog here, and then I forget. If you need to reach me please leave a comment on this site, I get...
Recent and upcoming events for Bitter Sweet:
CORONADO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, CORONADO CA. NOVEMBER 5, 2025 Come over onto the island in the middle of San Diego Bay! My husband and I lived on this fabled island when he was stationed at the Amphib base, as a dentist, to take care of Navy Seals.. That's a long long time ago..but it is also the...
Book Signing at Kitchen Lingo cookbook store in Long Beach, CA Feb 24, 2024
Please join me at Kitchen Lingo in Long Beach, CA, on Saturday, Feb 24 from 1 to 2PM. I will give a presentation on Bitter Sweet, and sign books! Kitchen Lingo is a unique store on the most lively street in Long Beach it seemed like. Than you Matt for your enthusiastic welcome. Be sure to check...
GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS 2023/ Best in the world/Culinary History for BITTER SWEET
I am thrilled and flattered to have been awarded THIRD PLACE Best In The World. GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARDS Culinary History category. For that I have to thank friends, readers, testers, editors and assistants and especially my superhuman husband (who passed away in January 2023) for his...
Dr Prosper Lévy-Neymarck’s journal, en version originale, in its original French: order from Châlons en Champagne…
Aigre Doux : Carnet de Guerre du Dr. Prosper Lévy-Neymarck suivi de Douceurs Pâtissières de Blanche Lévy-Neymarck Chers amis francophones: Je suis ravie de vous faire savoir que Bruno Malthet, editeur du Petit Catalaunien Illustré à Châlons-en-Champagne a publié une édition spéciale EN FRANçAIS...
Upcoming events and signings for Bitter Sweet:
Thank you, readers of Bitter Sweet. The book has generated much interest since it came out February 15, 2023--as I have mentioned previously, I am promoting the book and telling the story in honor and in memory of ancestors who died in the Holocaust, and in honor of my husband who didn't get to...
KIRKUS REVIEW FOR BITTER SWEET
Kirkus Reviews just published this review of Bitter Sweet, September15, 2023 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/kitty-morse/bitter-sweet-a-wartime-journal-and-heirloom-recipes-from-occupied-france/ BITTER SWEET A WARTIME JOURNAL AND HEIRLOOM RECIPES FROM OCCUPIED FRANCE by Kitty Morse ;...