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Archive for the 'Cookbooks' Category

NPRs gift ideas

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

NPR has two great book articles up right now. The first is The 10 Best Cookbooks of 2009. The holidays are a great time to try out new recipes and learn new techniques, and these books will definitely help you do it! Or, they might make great gifts for the epicureans on your list.
Speaking of [...]

Eco Delights

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

The newest edition of NPR’s book notes arrived in my e-mail, and I noticed its headliner is the book Farm City by Novella Carpenter. This is the story of a woman who is running a farm on a squatted parcel of land in the ghetto. No, really, she is. Her memoir is an amazing [...]

Recent Book Awards

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Some recent book awards caught my attention and I thought I’d highlight them here. Hopefully, we’ll be able to keep up with the book awards news from here on out. If you know of any book awards that we miss, please post them!
The first one I noticed was that the Eric Hoffer Book Award was [...]