A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges...
The author takes you on this all-consuming journey with the characters and then it feels like she, herself, got tired of writing and dashed of an ending that was on par with the crappy way I would wrap up college and law school essays. I stuck with this for 775 pages – I deserved ...
THEME AND VARIATIONS: A STEADY DIET OF FOOD BOOKSJANICE OKUN News Book Reviewer
I loved the meshing of the immigrant story and food. There is a huge metaphor about how immigrants have to balance assimilation and their own heritage. There’s also a theme about finding your own path and not the one that your parents set out for you. I loved the characters, and how ...
There was also welcome hints in the mix of Quincy Jones’s soundtrack work – think the muscular Theme from Ironside and the frothy Soul Bossa from the Austin Powersmovies. Leader George Cooper – who moved house to London on the day of the gig – has played across the musical spectrum,...
Scarcity Brain is a book about the challenges of living in a world of abundance with a brain that’s adapted to living in a world of scarcity. The author, Michael Easter, argues that our reward pathways were optimized to forage for food, an activity full of anticipation and unpredictable re...
You begin to see the consequences in terms of getting hold of food, transportation, collaborators, culture, kids going back to school, all these issues. A lot of my work as a lawyer is dealing with horrendous international cases and it’s the same everywhere—Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Chile—what...
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Yep, those a one-dish meal concoctions, named after the container they’re baked and served in; those exemplars of comfort food, consisting of a variety of ingredients, mixed or layered, with starchy binders and/or sauces, baked in and served from a sturdy, deep, handled dish, the exempl...
This thought- provoking collection of poems was written by Rakhshan RizWan with Yusuf Samee, a mother-and-son team and illustrated by Benjamin Philips. Bringing together observations, meditations and memories, it explores sorts of things, including animals, family, food and what it’s like moving...