Linda Ronstadt encountered a pivotal problem when she teamed up with former New York Times writer Lawrence Downes to pen a cookbook featuring some of her family’s favorite recipes.
The book — about which more in a moment — inspired a companion album of the same name, due out Friday from Putamayo World Records, curated by Ronstadt and Putamayo founder Dan Storper. Hearing Ronstadt’s luminous voice in full flight on the “Feels Like Home” compilation album will likely be an emotional experience for many listeners.
“I can always harmonize in my head, even without music playing,” Ronstadt said, speaking by phone from her San Francisco home. “That’s all IHappily, her voice rings loud and clear on nearly every page of “Feels Like Home,” which was both a labor of love and a labor.“That’s another reason I needed a lot of help with this book. I have a lot of involuntary moments because of Parkinson’s and progressive supranuclear palsy. So, it was slow going.
The letter concludes: “Our concern is that to canonize him would not only be an affront to the California Indians that survive, it would tarnish the images of the saints we cherish. We implore you to reconsider the canonization of Junípero Serra.” Growing up, Ronstadt and her family traveled often and freely between southern Arizona and northern Mexico. The physical landscape was the same on either side of the border and so were many of the people.
Discrimination was rampant in Tucson, she writes. But because of her complexion, she was not subjected to the biases that her darker-skinned Latina friends and classmates encountered on a regular basis. “The forty-fifth president declared a national emergency at the border,” she writes, pointedly declining to identify him by name.
The fact that an editor at Heyday, the publisher of “Feels Like Home,” voiced concerns about the potentially jarring impact of her uncharacteristic use of the f-word — which, for the record, appears one other time in the book — did not dissuade Ronstadt in the least.Does she use the f-word much in her day-to-day life?Co-writer Downes chuckled when told of her response.
“Well, it was hard,” she replied. “But it was a true collaboration. People are just on the other side of the border and and it’s a wonderful culture with wonderful people, food and music.”
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Excellent. That's a good call for many people who are disgusted by the religious people's actions. I just go to church for the coffee.