I suspect at least some of you already are familiar with this and may have it, but I'm just now getting to it. I enjoy reading cookbooks and this one is definitely one that I'm liking.
It won the 2018 James Beard Award for Best General Cookbook, and was named Cookbook of the Year by the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
Not quite at the level of The Food Lab, but similar to that book, this one explains the how and why, instead of merely the what that most cookbooks provide. And now I've learned that it was made into a four episode series on Netflix that I'll have to check out.
Just finished a pretty decent murder mystery novel called Stay Close by Harlan Coben. Had never read any of his stuff before. The Acknowledgments mentioned names of characters in the book, which I thought was odd until I read further that Coben will use your name as a character in one of his books if you donate generously to an approved charity. Not sure how widespread a practice that is, but it’s kinda cool.
Roach wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 8:53 pm
Just tried to read Naked and The Dead (Norman Mailer) but it’s way too thick for me. Bailed at 1/3.
I read it a year or 2 ago. Good read. Highly recommend Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song about Gary Gilmore, but if a book’s thickness is the issue, not sure you’d be a fan. It runs to about 1,100 pages.
Been into some fairly lightweight fiction lately. A couple of weeks ago I finished Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard. Now I’m into A Time to Kill by John Grisham. Not sure why, because I read it already about 20 years ago. Next up: Unsettled.
Mikey wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 10:18 pm
Now I’m into A Time to Kill by John Grisham.
That’s a beauty. Read The Testament and The Brethren or better yet listen to them with Frank Muller (RIP) on narration.
I used to read a lot of attorney fiction. Multiple books by Grisham and Turow and always enjoyed them, but it’s been a while, and I’m not sure why. Maybe I get enough by reading 88’s posts on T1B.
'The Killer Trail' on the Voulet-Chanoine mission. It's said to have inspired Heart Of Darkness as the story broke the same year Conrad published his book.
1889 French military column around Lake Chad grew to thousands with local stragglers hanging on and it's officers just ran amok, devastating the entire area, then wiping out other French units sent to arrest them. It presaged Conrad's book in a frightening manner.
Top notch stuff in a little researched corner of history.
Asked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.
No sign of cancer. Will begin treatment for stomach probs if biopsies look good. I may finally get back to going to ballgames and concerts. Whoohoo!
Actual books I’m reading:
Re-reading RESET (Stephen Kinzer). LIVING ON THE BLACK (Feinstein). DEMON BOX (Kesey).
Sudden Sam wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:29 pmAsked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.
Sudden Sam wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 4:29 pmAsked for and got photos to replace the framed ones that disappeared from my shed wall years ago. Will lose more friends once these are framed and hung.
Quite a few friends would lean in looking at those pics and ask, “What is this?”
When I told them, mostt were pretty pissed. Loved it.
Gettysburg by William Forstchen & Newt Gingrich. It might not be commonly known, but Gingrich has a PhD in history and is a former professor. He did the research.
It's alt history, but not ridiculous alt history. Just a couple of decisions made or not made. The largest departure is that Lee is not having heart problems and is active. A common conjecture is what would have happened if Jackson hadn't been killed at Chancellorsville and was present at Gettysburg on the first day. Historically, Lee issued Ewell vague orders to attack Cemetery Hill if practicable. Ewell deemed it not practicable. Jackson would have attacked with everything he had. In the book, Lee rides to Ewell's position and issues peremptory orders to attack immediately. It's close, but Ewell's attack is blown to pieces by Union artillery. The rest of the operation is increasingly divergent from actual events.
Interesting read and well written.
Screw_Michigan wrote: ↑Fri Apr 05, 2019 4:39 pmUnlike you tards, I actually have functioning tastebuds and a refined pallet.
mvscal wrote: ↑Sat Mar 22, 2025 2:35 am
Gettysburg by William Forstchen & Newt Gingrich. It might not be commonly known, but Gingrich has a PhD in history and is a former professor. He did the research.
It's alt history, but not ridiculous alt history. Just a couple of decisions made or not made. The largest departure is that Lee is not having heart problems and is active. A common conjecture is what would have happened if Jackson hadn't been killed at Chancellorsville and was present at Gettysburg on the first day. Historically, Lee issued Ewell vague orders to attack Cemetery Hill if practicable. Ewell deemed it not practicable. Jackson would have attacked with everything he had. In the book, Lee rides to Ewell's position and issues peremptory orders to attack immediately. It's close, but Ewell's attack is blown to pieces by Union artillery. The rest of the operation is increasingly divergent from actual events.
Interesting read and well written.
Along with heart problems-he was in bad shape over the winter of 1862-63, a fact kept hidden by his Lee and his staff, he may have been suffering from the hershey squirts as they had arrived in Pennsylvania during cherry season. Richard Ewell was in Corps command for the first time-himself recovering from an amputated leg and bouncing all over the country in an 'amboolance' (Dale Earnhardt pronunciation) and using laudanum to kill the pain. Decision making by the Confederate high command due to health was not at it's finest on the first day of battle and the ultimate in poor decisions was still to come.
Hulk not fear evil bald scientist. Scientist call Hulk tiny, Hulk get mad. Smash.
I thought this story delivered what it promised, fantastic read. The only thing I found unnerving is the prevailing notion that all scientists are evil madmen, hellbent on destroying the world. Personally, I've never met a scientist with these attitudes.
