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Nancy
I just received this one for my birthday and it is really interesting (includes some recipes)
"Renewing America's Food Traditions ", Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods, edited by Gary Paul Nabhan
ilene

There's a "cookbooks" topic, so I'm moving this thread there.

I wrote a long review of Pollan's Botany of Desire, and it never showed up here....aaack. Is it hiding somewhere in the ether Fuzzy?

I just finished "Eat, Memory, Great Writers at the Table." It's a collection of essays from the NYT and edited by Amanda Hesser. I've give it a B+, whic for me, means worth checking out from of the library but no worth buying. At the end of each essay is a recipe.

At Amazon you can have a look inside.

I'm waiting for this from the library: Immoveable Feast - A Paris Christmas by John Baxter. Here is the blurb:
A witty cultural and culinary education, Immoveable Feast is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread - and didn't speak a word of French - unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Ernest Hemingway called Paris "a moveable feast" - a city ready to embrace you at any time in life. For Los Angeles-based film critic John Baxter, that moment came when he fell in love with a French woman and impulsively moved to Paris to marry her. As a test of his love, his skeptical in-laws charged him with cooking the next Christmas banquet-for eighteen people in their ancestral country home. Baxter's memoir of his yearlong quest takes readers along his misadventures and delicious triumphs as he visits the farthest corners of France in search of the country's best recipes and ingredients. Irresistible and fascinating, Immoveable Feast is a warmhearted tale of good food, romance, family, and the Christmas spirit, Parisian style.

Sounds like a fun read, doesn't it? I'll let you know in a few weeks.
Nancy

Lynn,

Umm .... no. I'm afraid you have a connectivity problem, and your post never made it to the board.

I take it you didn't save it anywhere?

Nancy
I just read a review for The Man Who Ate the World by Jay Rayner....sounds fun...he is a London Restaurant Critic and this book reveals his adventures in the world's greatest restaurants.
ilene

Nancy, All,

I just finished Kurlansky's latest, The Big Oyster. This is really more of a history of Manhattan from the 17th to the 19th centuries, but is very interesting in how much our eating habits and our perception of oysters as food has changed. Still, I'd read Salt or Cod first for somewhat more interesting history before turning to The Big Oyster.