Raccoon Stew

An Architect’s Sumptuary

by Warren Ashworth

Raccoon Stew is a memoir in twelve stand-alone chapters. Told in a warm humorous voice, the stories render specific moments from a life, tracing memories and reflections on food, family, design, the making of a man and an architect; each one is triggered by a recipe from the author’s scrapbook of often handwritten, stained, annotated, well-used recipes which he began collecting as a young teenager. The final story celebrates the opening of Danny Meyer’s first restaurant in 1985, the iconic Union Square Café in New York, which he designed, and which coincides hilariously with the birth of his first child.

We, the House

by Warren Ashworth and Susan Kander

Published by Blue Cedar Press

Mrs. Peale has been dead for 38 years and Ambleside is a new Italianate house on the Kansas prairie when her existential yelp sparks the beginning of an unforgettable relationship.

“An offbeat novel… charming…[a] time-skipping read that will engross fans of U.S. history, art, and architecture.”
– Kirkus Reviews, December 2021