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Completed my #AuldLangSpine2025 pick from @JoeMo . This memoir is a gloriously acerbic, brutally honest look at the restaurant business in the early days of Anthony Bourdain‘s career. It‘s a bit repetitive, but I absolutely adore his voice. And now I know how to make a breast of chicken and mashed potatoes “tower like a fully engorged priapus.” So there‘s that. 👍🏼👍🏼 Thanks, Joe!

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Raising a glass (I mean, a mug) of tea and a cardamom bun to @JoeMo as I kick off #AuldLangSpine2025 with this pick from his list.

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"Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food."

First book of #wintergames finished for the #holidaybookdragons! I‘m obsessed with this series of romance Shakespeare retellings set among Indian-American families. So funny and cute and I love all the characters

Happy #wintergames ❄️❄️❄️ it‘s midnight in Prague, and I‘m getting a slightly slow start to this year‘s games as I‘ve got one more day left of a trip here with my friend before I head home and get festive in earnest. The plan is to finish this amazing Indian-American wedding infused retelling of much ado about nothing tomorrow - it‘s so deliciously written

If you want to cook classic French dishes, this is a good cookbook. However, it requires access to a good butcher and ordered specialty supplies for many recipes. It‘s not one I‘ll be referring to often, but I enjoyed Tony‘s asides and advice. I think Appetites, his later home cookbook with recipes from his travels, is the more visually interesting, easier to cook from book…except when he recommends buying $200 cans of tuna…

“Growing up, Roy loved his mom's food made the Korean way- by hand.“

The illustrations feel like they are tying together different cultures/ art styles/ ideas etc. It reminds me of graffiti almost and then adding in the speech bubbles and headings makes you excited to flip the page and see whats coming next.

A junior Library guild Selection Winner, Written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, June Jo Lee illustrated by Man One is about a man born in South Korea who moves to LA and brings Korean food and different flavors to the area. He is a chef and everyone loves it. the story has speech bubbles sharing different vocabulary words of Korean dishes/words and describes them