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Loving your food discussion. Anyone else have to read The Jungle in high school about the meat packing industry? Imagine going back to those days!!!
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oooo, VR,, I would love to visit those markets with you!
One more positive thing about the Dorito Effect that I am taking with me. All of this mass production has made food cheaper. Chicken used to be really expensive, now it's not. If all we had were family type farms, there would be a lot less food to feed our ever growing population, it would be more expensive and we would have more hunger than we already do. So while we have lost a lot of flavor, people are able to afford to eat, (mostly) and that's not a bad thing.
It was really a thought-provoking book, that's why I recommended it on here.
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minus...who can forget that book! Funny thing....I often confuse Upton Sinclair with Sinclair Lewis!
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Cold Storage Alaska by John Straley takes place in a contemporary small dying town on the south east coast - cannery failing - damp when not frozen. miserable yet beautiful, great characters, you get a sense of how people literally wash up on shore and stay. Funny and enjoyable.
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I've been amused the last couple of days. There has been a trial all over the local news about Tarrant County going after a "rogue" dairy for selling raw milk within their city limits. I read the article. I took a cheese-making class at a "hipster" hardware store in my neighborhood. Two very young Mennonite sisters taught it and provided the milk and ingredients. Yeah, it was that dairy. There also was a report of at one time their milk testing positive for some bacteria, but that was not specified. Think I'm going to croak from TB or Brucellosis? You can tell I'm really concerned...
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if anyone is interested further in the topic of taste in our food, monoculture agribusiness and what small steps are being made by some chefs and "sustainable food people" Chef Dan Barber's THE THIRD PLATE is excellent. It was educational, but also gave me dome hope for the future. It was a good read.
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Not a book, but for history buffs: My friend turned me onto this series on the History Channel called Hunting Hitler. In 2014, many FBI files became declassified and this group is combing through them and searching to see whether or not Hitler really committed suicide in that bunker or if he could have fled Germany. Looking at Argentina. I've only seen 2 episodes so far and I have to say it is fascinating.
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That sounds good to me!
Read The Martian for my book club. Not really my 'thing', but it was alright and can see why it would make a good movie.
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ruth...the DH read The Martian a while ago and enjoyed it! I had no idea they made it into a movie! I must come out from under the rock that I am living in....
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But it is such a cozy rock with a great library,,,,
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It just came out in October. Matt Damon plays Mark Watney, the lost astronaut.
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ruth....thanks! I will look for the DVD or Netflix....
I thought this column is a great twist for annual book recommendations!
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-bes...
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VR - thanks for the column. You always come up with the most interesting things!!
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Looking through the reviews for the Fanny Farmer cookbook that Chris Kimball wrote, there was one for a book about the same general time period. Mark Twains journey. . It sounded interesting and covered more area - from the East coast to the West and in between. The author followed in his footsteps to get he e global recipes.
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Excellent article, VR! Thank you!
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moon....I'm going to have to read that book to! You just reminded me of another food history book...
http://www.amazon.com/The-United-States-Arugula-Go...
The United States of Arugula.....
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7792730-twain-s-feast
Found it: Twain's Feast by Andrew Beahrs
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Thx for the Link glennie. That is it. Sounds so interesting. I happen to have a B& N gift card! LOL
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Excellent!! Give us a review when you read it. My library has it, so I put it on my "to-read" list over there. I love that list, so I can find books later on!
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The Blondes was an unusual book. Interesting idea (a rabies-like disease turns blonde women into crazed killers) but IMO it was more social commentary than entertainment.
I've been hearing good things about H is for Hawk. Anyone read it yet?
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yes the raptor book was an excellent read
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Oops, lost you all for awhile. Just realized I had taken this thread out of my favorites. Have come across some good recommendations, as usual.
I did have that "I didn't see that coming" to Baldacci's latest book. Said it out loud and DH looked at me. Told him he will have the same thought when he reads it.
Did like "Rogue Lawyer" as Grisham changed his style of writing for this one. When I first started, I wasn't sure I would like. Once I got into it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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have you ever read several books in succession and whether intentionally or not, realize there was a theme - some subtle, or not so subtle similarities? a while back, for example, I found myself reading both fiction and non-fiction books about parrots - or perhaps only a parrot on the cover, another time it was sheep - I recall a book about cloistered nuns who raised sheep and another - Three Bags Full - a mystery solved by a flock of sheep.. anyway based on recommendations here I reserved The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Van Arnim from the library and in the mean time, checked out The Museum of Extraordinary Things by Alice Hoffman, Fin and Lady by Cathleen Schine and The Book of Speculation by Erika Swyler - based on their covers and familiarity with Hoffman and Schine. So, Cathleen Schine's book takes place in the 1960's when a young boy whose parents die is placed in the custody of his twenty-something half sister who is a wealthy wild child living in NYC. A significant part of the book takes place in Italy, throughout the book there are vivid descriptions of flowers and of course esp in Italy. When The Enchanted April finally became available I discover that Cathleen Schine has written the intro - and I think her book is in some ways a homage to The Enchanted April. Which brings us to The Museum of Extraordinary Things and The Book of Speculation - both of which it turns out involve carnivals, mermaids and how families are created and destroyed,. with The Book of Speculation and Fin and Lady being similar as they are both very much about siblings making do in the absence of parents. Great books all!!!!!
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Jelson- I have observed such subtle but seemingly impossible threads between books before. Though I can't come up with an example just at this moment, your words resonated with familiarity. I often find a new author when I realize they were of another author's time and place. From an introduction, a tenuous thread of reality mentioned in passing, an old review that mentions them both. Even when it's fiction, I enjoy the energy that seems to vibrate between certain books all on their own, and glow together in my consciousness.
The world can be a wondrous, magical place. That is, when I am not obsessed by my own issues of pain and mortality. I judge myself guilty of not appreciating this magic more. But thanks for so gently and playfully bringing it to my attention once again.
Your post was most timely and lifted my spirits today.
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okay....so the DH FINALLY finished the new Baldacci book. He let the book languish for awhile. When he finally got started, he couldn't stop reading until he finished it today. He loved the book and the ending? Never saw that one coming!😇. I love when he loves a book.
Here is my next book...
http://www.amazon.com/Spec-Ops-Studies-Operations-...I saw a few interviews with Admiral McRaven and I heard his University of Texas commencement speech, (younger son's school) that went viral....
Also a reminder....many of you may recall my friend's book was made into an NBC series starring Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta....it premieres next week. Shades of Blue. I'm soooo excited for him!
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VR, tell your friend we're impressed and happy for him!
And Jelson, yes. I too have observed that phenomenon! Sometimes I think it helps you work out problems in your own life and something is setting those books in your path. Although Parrots? LOL maybe your intuition is telling you that you're stuck on repeat.... LOL
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http://m.thenational.ae/arts-life/the-review/book-...
Here's a great list of books on the horizon!
Happy New Year dear book loving friends!
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Happy New Year Everyone! May 2016 treat you well. Much love
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Happy New Year my book-loving friends! (edited for spelling
)Finished the new Stephen King book of short stories, The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. As always, I appreciated his writing skills and plot twists, but really enjoyed his annotations about the stories. The final story, titled "Summer Thunder", will stay with me a long time.
Nabbed a paperback off a vacationing co-worker's desk. She won't mind, we trade books all the time. It's The Cold Nowhere by Brian Freeman. It's book #6 in a series featuring Lt. Jonathan Stride of the Duluth PD. Such a good read, I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it this morning. I will read book #7 coming in March 2016 but should I go back and read books 1-5?
That same co-worker lent me The River of Doubt by Candice Millard. It's sub-titled Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey and is about his trip down an uncharted tributary of the Amazon after his election defeat in 1912. Ruth & VR, you've probably read it but I'm diving in today.
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Watch out for the piranhas if you are diving in, badger! Yes, The River of Doubt is an interesting read....does not make me want to explore the Amazon! It's pretty much of a miracle that they made it out of there alive.
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