Munjeli Cookbook
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Love + Sex with Robots, by David Levy
I haven’t been reading much, and this book took me forever. A brilliant compilation of research on attachment, technology, and sexology, I skipped through it and doubled back. I don’t know why. A few laborious passages on pets or prostitution left me cold, but in the end I think I got it. I certainly discussed [...]
In Defense of Food, by Micheal Pollan
The hard part is the follow through. We hear all the time about the dangers of processed foods, and many of us have experienced first hand the benefits of a healthy diet, at least a healthy meal or two, and the satisfaction of real food. I feel better physically if I eat my vegetables and [...]
A Wolf at the Table, by Augusten Burroughs
Augusten Burroghs is a talented writer with a tormented past. His memoirs have made best-seller lists; he is riding the cutting edge of literary trendiness. Memoir! You should write a book! Its all the rage these days; I hear it myself at cocktail parties. How flattering to think we could finally be recognized for all [...]
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
When the Broad Street well became contaminated with cholera, it was demonstrated by a pattern of deaths radiating from the source, describing a social network. Steven Johnson eloquently uses the map of the epidemic to launch a discussion of the macro and micro; the conditions of Victorian England, and the personalities who founded the science [...]
The Jesuit and the Skull, by Amir Aczel
Wow, what a cool book. Hard to say what made a better story, the charming, yet free-thinking priest, or the details of life among the Australopithecus. Admittedly, I am partial to this sort of tale, since I wrote a research paper on hominid evolution in eighth grade, and have followed developments in paleoanthropology ever since, [...]
Outliers, by Malcom Gladwell
The most recent book by Malcolm Gladwell is, as always, provocative. The author examines the phenomena of exceptional individuals, and makes a strong argument for the communities that present them. Without diminishing the issue of nature, he approaches nurture from a collective standpoint. We read about the Jews in the garment industry in New York, [...]
What We Eat When We Eat Alone, by Deborah Madison
On my birthday, I, solo, consumed an entire wheel of goat camembert, nearly half a jar of Maggie Beer’s Burnt Fig Preserves, half a loaf of vienoise, and an entire bottle of the Bastianich Rosato. I’ve testified to the binge several times since then, and everyone I’ve discussed it with congratulates me. It seems I’m [...]
My Favorite Cookbooks: Indian in Six, by Monisha Bharadwaj
Now I like to cook, but that’s not to say I have all the time in the world for it. Unfortunately, I have a job, and a life that doesn’t always permit endless idling by the stove. Many cookbooks that focus on traditional cuisines also focus on traditional methods; and there’s something to be said [...]
Heavenly Intrigue, by Joshua and Anne-Marie Gilder
I’ ve read several books, and innumerable articles and webpages about Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. The defining characteristic of all of them has been a lack of objectivity and tendency to extrapolate the villainy of one or the other based on certain incidents. The recent news (discovered with modern forensic science) that Brahe was [...]
The Widow Clicquot, by Tilar J. Mazzeo
At the age of twenty-seven, a woman inherited her husband’s wine business near Reims, France. The local style was still obscure, a sparkling chardonnay, and the production techniques weren’t yet perfected. Though the production logs were written for decades by her own hand, little is known of Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. Her personal correspondence wasn’t saved, [...]
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