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 | Dec 23, 2012 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf
Everyone knows folks insanely devoted to chocolate (ahem) but who knew Jews are meshuga (crazy) for it? Leave it to a yente Rabbi to get all farklempt over it. Rabbi Debbie Prinz. The working title of her book – Jews on the Chocolate Trail – might God-smack of some...
by Mark Christian | Dec 13, 2009 | Book Reviews, Middle Shelf |
Get it on Amazon Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures (“SGPP”) – a title that resounds as an answer back at RC Zaehner’s Mysticism, Sacred & Profane (1961) & whose subtitle faintly echoes Tomas Hurtados’ Chocolate y Tobaco Ayuno Eclesiastico y Natural...
by Mark Christian | Aug 4, 2009 | Middle Shelf
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection A scholarly compendium for which the title is the synopsis. McNeil has convened a symposium of world-class scholars. The book gets off to a halting start on the tree’s botany that suffers from an...
by Mark Christian | Aug 3, 2009 | Middle Shelf
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Good title. Good chapter headings too: Night of the Living Freak; Last Man in America with Black Jack Gum; In the Belly of the Freak; Southbound with the Hammers Down – Southern-Fried Freak;...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Top Shelf
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF – Essential Dr. Maricel Presilla is largely responsible for putting premium chocolate on the map in the USA. Arguably our finest public educator, if there were only one book to have on the subject, this would probably be it. New...
