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06/24
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table (Paperback) by Ruth Reichl bookshelves: currently-reading |
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (Paperback) by Bill Bryson bookshelves: currently-reading |
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gave Bread: A Baker's Book of Techniques and Recipes (Hardcover) by Jeffrey Hamelman |
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I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away (Paperback) by Bill Bryson bookshelves: currently-reading |
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gave Fast Food Nation (Paperback) by Eric Schlosser |
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gave Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight, and Disease (Vintage) by Gary Taubes |
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The Graveyard Book (Hardcover) by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads author) bookshelves: to-read |
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"Holy RESEARCH, Batman. Wow. It seems like Gary Taubes maybe took a lot of guff after his controversial piece in the New York Times, and decided to just let all his critics have it by burying them in tons and tons of data. I have read abo...more " | |
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The Soul of a Chef: The Journey Toward Perfection (Paperback) by Michael Ruhlman bookshelves: to-read |
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. "
— C.S. Lewis
— C.S. Lewis
"No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)
— John Steinbeck (The Winter of Our Discontent)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
— Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)
— Michael Pollan (In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto)
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