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I Don't Know How She Does It

Wednesday, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:26am



Delightfully smart and heartbreakingly poignant, Allison Pearson's smash debut novel has exploded onto bestseller lists as "The national anthem for working mothers." Hedge-fund manager, wife, and mother of two, Kate Reddy manages to juggle nine currencies in five time zones and keep in step with the Teletubbies. But when she finds herself awake at 1:37 a.m. in a panic over the need to produce a homemade pie for her daughter's school, she has to admit her life has become unrecognizable. With panache, wisdom, and uproarious wit, I Don't Know How She Does It brilliantly dramatizes the dilemma of every working mom.

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Cookbook of the Day, Mission Street Food.

Monday, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:12am

Mission Str Food

from $38.95

Cookook of the Day is Mission Street Food by Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz.

This book, the first of the as-yet-unnamed McSweeney's food imprint, captures the story and the spirit of San Francisco's Mission Street Food and thoughtful and hilarious discussions of contemporary food issues, tongue-in-cheek manifestos, and a bevy of worthwhile and tasty recipes.

Two years after Anthony Myint sublet a Salvadoran taco truck for a night so he could serve his own brand of inspired street food, he and his wife Karen Leibowitz have turned Mission Street Food into four wildly different and exciting restaurant incarnations. The food has remained bold and innovative throughout, and the mission has always been the same: To provide good, affordable food, while giving back to the community. Each Mission Street Food project has donated a significant portion of its profits to charities around San Francisco.

"Mission Street Food is an uncommonly generous read. When I finished it, I felt like I'd drained a cold can of beer at the end of a shift at the restaurant. The interplay of narrative, design, and photography is more compelling and candid than any food book I've ever seen; the focus on fundamental techniques and how to think in the kitchen is more truthful, accurate, and contemporary than almost any basic cookbook; in fact, the whole package, powered by the exuberance of Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, is infectious, inspiring, something apart from the rest. This is a special book." Peter Meehan, co-author of Momofuku

"An amazing story. An amazing institution. And now a book that's as creative and pioneering as its subjects. Let us hope that Mission Street Food's uniquely American success story points the way to a brighter, and delightfully stranger, future." Anthony Bourdain

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Steve Burgess -- Night Table Recommendations

Thursday, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:28pm

I'm fond of non-fiction, particularly history and religion. But then, you probably would have guessed that.

Misquoting Jesus/Lost Christianities by Bart Ehrman (HarperCollins / Oxford University Press)

Bart Ehrman is a Biblical scholar with a populist touch. His books are little primers in the methods employed used by those who pore over Scripture to separate the oldest writings from later additions and translator's mistakes. Although Ehrman has also written about his own theological ideas, in books like Misquoting Jesus he is more intent on in guiding readers through the basic principles of scholarship and explaining why and how scholars come to their conclusions about the validity of Gospel passages. Lost Christianities focuses on the many gospels that never made the Biblical cut, including the entertaining "infancy gospels" in which little Jesus is revealed as a dangerous playmate to cross.

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Book of the Day Alissa York's Fauna

Tuesday, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:26am

$23.00

Alissa York's latest novel, Fauna, unites misfits and dreamers in a visceral connection to the forgotten animals that live in our big cities. When Edal Jones can't cope with the casual cruelty she encounters in her job as a federal wildlife officer, she finds herself drawn to a beacon of solace nestled in the valley under the unlikely banner of an auto-wrecker's yard. But lost souls come in many shapes and sizes, and when the brutal backwoods childhood of another sanctuary-seeker causes him to persecute the creatures of the valley, the little community struggles to come to terms with both him and themselves.

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Book of the Day, W.D. Valgardson's What the Bear Said

Monday, Aug 08, 2011 at 10:53am

W.D. Valgardson returns to Turnstone Press with a new book, What the Bear Said, thirty-five years after Turnstone published its first book and Valgardson's first book of poetry, In the Gutting Shed, in 1976.

A collection of fantastic tales featuring bears, wolves, fish, forests, swamps, harsh winters, insect-infested summers, the unpredictable waters of an inland sea, and people claimed by the forces of nature, What the Bear Said blends Icelandic folklore with the landscape and wildlife of Canada for a delightful and absorbing reading experience.

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