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Salt Fat Acid Heat

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.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Table for Two by Amor Towles

Good Energy by Casey and Calley Means

Cancer as a Metabolic Disease by Thomas Seyfried

The Book that Made Your World by Vishal Mangalwadi

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.

The Canadian Mounted.

-Del Griffith

Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 4:10 pm The Canadian Mounted.

You sure you’re not a closet Canuck?

Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:30 pm Table for Two by Amor Towles

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and thought it was great, will add this to my list.

Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery store by James McBride.

I just got done reading Nothing. The T1B board.

It leaves plenty of room in my head for... If you tell me three or four more times. It might convince me.

From Eternity to Here by Sean Carroll

Daily Refresh

"Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me - put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you."

Phillippians 4:9 NIV

A couple of VietNam war books: Matterhorn ( Karl Marlantes) and Chickenhawk (Robert Mason), good reads.

Just tried to read Naked and The Dead (Norman Mailer) but its way too thick for me. Bailed at 1/3.

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.

The Barn by Wright Thompson

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.

The Whistle Is Screaming wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 5:29 pm

Biggie wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2024 3:30 pm Table for Two by Amor Towles

I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow and thought it was great, will add this to my list.

Just started The Heaven & Earth Grocery store by James McBride.

Heaven and Earth GS is excellent. One very tough story line but so good.

Read Rules of Civility before Table for Two. And read The Lincoln Highway also. Towles is awesome.

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.

The Wager
Killers of the Flower Moon
Project Hail Mary

Out

Biggie wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 12:53 am

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.

Hospital gibberish. Signed without reading it all. May have given them my house. Not sure. Don’t care.

Last night was nasty as all fuck. The colonoscopy prep crap was the nastiest ever. Thick, salty. Awful. Irie would love it.

Talked nurses and anesthesiologist to death. Waiting to get probed. Board libs would love it.

Enjoy the anesthesia (I assume they sedate you for this in ‘Bammy, unless you refuse it).

Worst part is over with Sam.

And when it is over, you will have the longest fart of your life in the recovery room.

All good. Greatest buncha operating room folks I’ve ever dealt with.

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.

Roux wrote: ↑Thu Oct 17, 2024 6:40 pm

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.

Catch22 again

Just about to meet Nately's Whore's kid sister.

Don Quixote

T1B

Lots of windmill tilting either way.

The Hun.

Finished this a couple weeks ago:

Deep Undercover: My Secret Life and Tangled Allegiances as a KGB Spy in America

By Jack Barsky (real name Albrecht Dittrich)

Just prior to that I read Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus by Matt Taibbi