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Culturematic by Grant McCracken
A must read for business people who want to spark innovation in their companies. Have you wondered why something as awful as the Jersey Shore became so popular? What was behind Starbuck’s success with becoming our “third place?” It is … Continue reading
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood by Anne Enright
I didn’t expect to love the book Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood, by Anne Enright. The silly, cutesy title and cover photo inclined me to shrug my shoulders and hide what I was reading in public. And the first essay … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, children, ireland, memoir, motherhood, nonfiction, pregnancy
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Outside the sparkling new Mumbai International Airport and its cluster of luxury hotels, a slum called Annawadi crams over 3,000 residents into shacks on a tiny patch of marshy land. Journalist Katherine Boo spent more than three years observing, interviewing, … Continue reading
What Einstein Told His Cook by Robert L. Wolke
Did you ever wonder what the difference is between baking soda and baking powder, why there are so many different kinds of flour, and what is Dutch cocoa? If so, you are just the type of advanced cook for whom … Continue reading
Posted in bornm
Tagged cooking, culinary arts, culinary science, food, food history, nonfiction
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A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table by Molly Wizenberg
With interwoven recipes and memories, Molly Wizenberg divulges her story, a memoir that blossoms from a blog she created in the aftermath of her father’s death. While the stories are splotchy little essays that capture only fragments of Wizenberg’s life, … Continue reading
Free Will by Sam Harris
Today we hear a lot about choice. We hear that it is within our power to make choices that benefit us and to take responsibility for choices that haven’t. Good messages, but are they true. Free Will argues that choice … Continue reading
Tasting Club by Dina Cheney
There is more to food tasting then just wine and cheese tasting parties. And this book tells us all about it. It provides tips how to entertain a group of friends while indulging in the best the food world has … Continue reading
Lard : The Lost Art of Cooking with Your Grandmother’s Secret Ingredient by Editors of Grit Magazine
I jumped on the don’t-eat-anything-you-can’t-pronounce bandwagon about five years ago. While I’ve lost no weight and have yet to be inspired to lead a “healthy lifestyle,” my HDLs have gone way up, my LDLs way down, and my husband has … Continue reading
Blue Nights by Joan Didion
In her previous memoir, A Year of Magical Thinking, author Joan Didion writes about the death of her husband. More recently in Blue Nights she writes about the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo. The recent memoir differs from the … Continue reading
Supergods by Grant Morrison
Grant Morrison is something of a divisive figure in the world of comics. Some people love him, while others can’t stand him, finding him pretentious and deliberately obtuse. I’m one of the people who think he’s brilliant. I love his … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, biography, memoir, nonfiction, superheroes
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