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World Travel: An Irreverent Guide
“I miss Anthony Bourdain. I miss his voiceovers. He was such a great writer when he was writing for himself to speak. This book is useless to me, but I still loved it. It’s ostensibly a travel guide. There’s a chapter for each country Tony went to in any of his three shows: No Reservations , The…”
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“It’s…okay. It’s very, very drawn out. The author attempts to trace back the origins of his food. The first chapter is on corn, but interestingly he manages to trace food back to oil – the petroleum based fertilizers that everything grows from. The chapters on beef and chicken processing are…”
Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
“I read this book as the supposed successor (or maybe predecessor?) to ‘Kitchen Confidential.’ It was just okay. I had trouble with the names. The author careens back and forth between Italy and New York, and there are a lot of people to sort out. There are Marios and Darios and Marcos and Memos and…”
Cheese Essentials: An Insider’s Guide to Buying and Serving Cheese (with 50 Recipes)
“This book was okay as a celebration of cheese, but I’m not sure of it’s practical value. It did drive home the different types of cheese to me – she profiles eight types, from washed-rind to semi-soft to blue, and she presents all sorts of information to characterize them. But like any book about…”