by Mark Christian | Nov 27, 2017 | Book Reviews, Bottom Shelf
Eat Pray Love meet Bread Wine Chocolate. In a rousing book, arousing both envy & pity, Simran Sethi re-tells a saga with updated vignettes, narration, & an impending tick-tock doomsday scenario. Unfortunate subtitle – The Slow Loss of Foods We Love — for...
by Mark Christian | Apr 6, 2013 | Book Reviews, Bottom Shelf |
Adapted from the review of Jacob Schor, ND, FABNO, Natural Medicine Journal, February 2013 Welcome to the end of an anomalous period in which some distortion in the time-space continuum appears to have turned things inside out, upside down, & backwards. For...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention Oozes forth pinker & frothier than that staple of upmarket restaurants in the late 20th century – the molten chocolate cake. Easy to picture this guy laced up with the apron on, swirling & twirling...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention A weighty collection of essays from esteemed scholars, employing a multi-disciplinary / inter-departmental approach. Spanning agronomy to archeology & anthropology, Chilies to Chocolate covers the broad...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention A behind-the-scenes investigative report on the state of chocolate around the world… at the turn of the millennium. Mort Rosenblum is a journalist, wordsmith, & transplanted food-hound living among...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Bottom Shelf |
Bookcase Location: BOTTOM SHELF – Honorable Mention Written almost a hundred years ago & reprinted in 2007. Tight synopsis of the plant’s history, cultivation, & manufacture, with half the book being pictures. Much of the info is still valid today,...
