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,...
