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Reading List: 12/07/07

December 7, 2007 by Renee Claire

Reading List

Some recent reads. All the title links take you to excerpts or detailed reviews, so be sure to click through:

  • The Sharper Your Knife, The Less You Cry: A foodie Eat, Pray, Love, written by a journalist turned Cordon Bleu student. I loved the recipes, cooking advice, and classroom anecdotes (the school sounds terrifying), but could’ve done without the romantic stuff.
  • Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster: A must-read for consumers, this book details how luxury businesses emphasize marketing over product quality to maximize profits. Dana Thomas also throws in juicy anecdotes about people like Miuccia Prada and Bernard Arnault.
  • Freaks and Geeks: We’ve only seen the first six twelve episodes, but wow. Absolutely brilliant, painful, funny, and true.
  • Misquoting Jesus: Solidly written, occasionally dense book on the way early scribes changed the Bible. I gave this to Mom for her birthday, so haven’t read it through (she did, though, and loved it). Sample bit: John 8:3-11 (“Let the one who is without sin among you cast the first stone”) was not in the original gospel.
  • The Bugle: Funny Guardian podcast featuring John Oliver (The Daily Show) and Andy Zaltzman.
  • Mario Unclogged: Short videos of Mario Batali talking about things like restaurant playlists, how to sauce pasta, and his tiff with Marco Pierre White.

Filed Under: Books, Film + TV, Television

Reading List: 11/08/07

November 8, 2007 by Renee Claire

Reading List

One of the joys and pitfalls of working at a bookstore is the proximity of tempting books and films. Four recent finds:

  • Fashion Babylon, by Imogene Edwards-Jones: An “up the skirts” view of the fashion industry, it seems like every fashion blogger has read this. Dishy, fun, and shocking in a totally unsurprising way.
  • The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick: An innovative and well-done mix of illustrations and text, focusing on film pioneer Georges Méliès (remember the Smashing Pumpkins’ “Tonight, Tonight” video? It was based on Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon). I like how the book’s construction evokes intertitles.
  • The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov: Just started this, so not much to say other than the first fifty pages are brilliant.
  • The Beauty Academy of Kabul: A solid documentary about an American beauty school in Afghanistan (now defunct). Watching the interaction between the Afghani students and the American teachers is fascinating, occasionally cringe-inducing, and for me (the daughter of a Salvadoran) somewhat familiar. See a short documentary here about the film.

Filed Under: Books, Film + TV, Television

Sin City Breakfast Tacos

August 7, 2007 by Renee Claire

For the Sin City DVD, Robert Rodriguez did another 10 Minute Cooking School featuring, of all things, breakfast tacos! I love the tortilla recipe and his sense of humor.

Filed Under: Film, Film + TV, Food, Recipes

Benny Goodman and Peggy Lee’s "Why Don’t You Do Right"

July 11, 2007 by Renee Claire

Filed Under: Film + TV, Music

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