in bed with tony bourdain

[kismet09]

also in bed with the laptop. since tim's sharing a hotel room with another woman this weekend, i feel no guilt at toting both laptop and palm pilot to bed.

i am one of those consumers that companies love, because they advertise and advertise and then one day i finally give in and decide to partake of what they're offering, and then regret it for a long time. purchases have included door to door vacuum sales (altho i feel only minor pangs of guilt about that one - it's a really excellent vacuum) and any number of of-the-month clubs.

i have finally fulfilled my book of the month club obligations, after sending at least 10 automatically sent featured selections of the month back (they start sending you mean letters about declining the offerings online rather than returning the books to them at their cost). i purchased a math/lewis carroll biog, and medium raw, anthony bourdain's recently released sequel to kitchen confidential. kc is probably the only book i've reread other than harry potter in recent years. i just love the way bourdain writes - it's smart and sarcastic (without it seeming forced or cliched) and all about food. the first bit of medium raw made my mouth water.

i'm on a food book kick. almost everything i've read in the past year was about food, eating, or serving food. highly recommended: service included, by phoebe damrosch, about serving at per se; the apprentice, by jacques pepin. recommended: Waiting: The True Confessions of a Waitress by Debra Ginsberg. i'm partway through Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto by Victoria Abbott Riccardi, which is interesting, but not that compelling, and The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School by Kathleen Flinn (what's with all my books being colon-ized? good thing i'm just copy and pasting rather than typing - those are really long titles.... even service included has a colon, but i didn't feel like looking it up on amazon). eventually i'll probably go back to fiction, but something about food memoirs is pulling me in right now.

i'm a little afraid to get too much deeper into medium raw, since once i do, i'll probably just keep reading and stop sleeping for a bit, and there are other things i need to get done. maybe i can be patient enough to save it for the plane to dallas.

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[srockhop.livejournal.com]

I want to get Art of Eating by M.F.K. Fisher. Speaking of long titles, I have an extra copy of Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone if you want me to bring it to Dallas.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

i have art of eating, but it's intimidating in its size. i'd love to read alone in the kitchen! i'll bring you one of the ones i've finished to trade.

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

Suggestions for titles I have read.
Salt and Saffron (Paperback) by Kamila Shamsie

by Dalia Jurgensen: Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits, andWhat Really Goes on in the Kitchen

Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes (Paperback) by Shoba Narayan

All of Ruth Reichl's food memoires. tender at the bone and comfort me with apples and garlic and sapphires.

[kismet09.livejournal.com]

i did listen to one reichl book from audible - neither of those, though. thanks for the recommendations!

[purlewe.livejournal.com]

did a little searching for others. I read a few of these.. but some of these are new to me. recommendations from Reichl on NPR.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11442341

[jigsawn.livejournal.com]

Anthony Bourdain and I went to the same high school.