It is rare to have 4 days off, I plan on burying myself in a new book. I probably have about 20 waiting to be read. Got these in the mail today thanks to our friends at Simon and Schuster. A quiet Hendricks sipping weekend it will be.
Although each book deserves undivided attention, creativity for me comes from dabbling in several things at once. I was actually able to get the El Bulli book at 30% off at Barnes and Noble. Sales were slow they said....
As it turns out, I have 40 double issues of Art culinaire.
They need to be disposed of, all brand new.
Any interest.
E-mail me for the numbers.
$10 each.
I always buy books faster than I can read them, they dont actually count as additions to the library till I read them. Currently pouring through the Catalan trio.
The quest for learning requires continuous reading.
Here are a few books I have poured through in the last 6 weeks.
The Oxford Symposium books are fantastic and is a convention of some of the best minds in the worrld of food.
Not the world of cooking, the world of food.
Old bookstores are always a great resource, you just never know what is lurking on the shelves.
I found this 1924 edition of "butter making".
Interesting pictures and great information on what real butter tastes like.
Not on the cutting edge but sometimes the cutting edge does not improve on old pathways.
Certainly worth more than the $7 it cost.
I suppose they just did not pay attention to the phrase "published 1924".
An additional gem for the collection.
Cooks get too wrapped up in cookbooks. Every now and then, it is important to engage one's mind in other literary pursuits. There is a bigger picture out there beyond the Molteni stove.
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