THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA -- an eater's manifesto that tells you exactly where your food comes from3/24/2016 The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Secrets Behind What You Eat by Michael Pollan (2007, Penguin; 450 pages) The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, as the dawn of the twenty-first century, may determine our survival as a species. Packed with profound surprises, The Omnivore's Dilemma is changing the way Americans thing about the politics, perils, and pleasures of eating. This is a great read about food and the evolutions it has endured. Pollan describes it all, from industrial agriculture to sustainable farming to hunter-gatherer lifestyles. It's entertaining and readable, as well as very informative. Find this title in our catalog: The Omnivore's Dilemma Recommended by: Ann
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Mexico: The Cookbook by Margarita Carrillo Arronte (2014, Phaidon Press; 704 pages) I love cookbooks that take care of art businesses. And if they have a spectacular pink cover, all the better. This is a fantastic book about Mexican cuisine illustrated with 200 full-color photographs. It is really a bible that features 700 recipes from across the entire country of Mexico, taking care to explain the rich diversity and flavors of its cuisine. The book is the result of 30 years of research. Each recipe includes notes on recipe origins, ingredients, and techniques. If you want to learn how to cook Tamales de Chocolate, o enmoladas, and many more dishes, this is your book! Find this title in our catalog: Mexico: The Cookbook Recommended by: Maite Drawing Lab For Mixed-Media Artists by Carla Sonheim (2010, Quarry Books; 144 pages) Carla Sonheim is an artist and creativity workshop instructor known for her fun and innovative projects and techniques designed to help adult students recover a more childlike, playful approach to creating. Many of these innovative ideas have been collected in this fantastic and inspiring book. The book offers a year's worth of assignments, projects, ideas and techniques that will introduce more creativity and nonsense into anyone's life. If you are in the spot of mind and life where you really want to work on creativity, this is the book for you. The book tells you over and over again that there is no right or wrong result, and you gain skills and confidence that allow you to either start your work or take it to a whole new level. From imaginary creatures to paper dolls or Modigliani style portraits, this book is a sure source of fun and great creativity. Find this title in our catalog: Drawing Lab For Mixed-Media Artists Recommended by: Maite Gratitude by Oliver Sacks (2015, Knopf; 64 pages) During the last few months of his live, Dr. Oliver Sacks wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about the medical and human drama of illness, about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death. “It is the fate of every human being," he wrote, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Gratitude is a book composed of four essays that form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life. The essays were written in the last two years of the author's life, when he was facing aging, illness and death. It is remarkable in its grace and clarity. Each one of the essays is pure gold. I especially enjoyed the final piece in the book, titled, “Sabbath,” which ends like this: “ And now, weak, short of breath, my once firm muscles melted away by cancer, I find my thoughts (…) drifting to the Sabbath, the day of rest, the seventh day of the week, and perhaps the seventh day of one's life as well, when one can feel that one's work is done, and one may, in good conscience, rest.” A must read, an absolutely piece of gold. Find this title in our catalog: Gratitude Recommended by: Maite The Kitchen Counter Cooking School by Kathleen Flynn (2012, Penguin Books; 304 pages) The author of the New York Times bestseller The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry tells the inspiring story of how she helped nine others find their inner cook. After graduating from Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, writer Kathleen Flinn returned with no idea what to do next, until one day at a supermarket she watched a woman loading her cart with ultraprocessed foods. Flinn's "chefternal" instinct kicked in: she persuaded the stranger to reload with fresh foods, offering her simple recipes for healthy, easy meals. The Kitchen Counter Cooking School includes practical, healthy tips that boost readers' culinary self-confidence, and strategies to get the most from their grocery dollar, and simple recipes that get readers cooking. I like to cook; this is an entertaining and thoughtful book on basic food and kitchen skills, warmly written with humor and intelligence. Find this title in our catalog: The Kitchen Counter Cooking School Recommended by: Ann |
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