by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection Bertrand Russell listed a couple motives for reading a book: either enjoyment or to boast about it. He might’ve added a 3rd: for learning…. on what to avoid reading in the future. No matter what stack...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Clay Gordon knows some about chocolate. For years he promoted himself as North America’s 1st chocolate critic & created the Chocophile website. Once he sat on a panel that exhibited the...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Top Shelf |
Bookcase Location: TOP SHELF – Essential Get it Here Both an academic & popular title, True History is an authoritative social account of cacáo & a compendium of the tree’s rich lore & voyage from the Americas to global phenomenon. Literally &...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Middle Shelf |
Bookcase Location: MIDDLE SHELF – Permanent Collection OK, the alliterative subtitle may be tripp-indued, but this book brings the facts & laughs. Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, trekking the wilds in search of potions to return to civilization like a...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Frou-frou from the doyenne of good taste – a li’l ol’ lacey brown & pink etiquette manual instructing the fine art of French-kissing your bonbons. How to spoon out ganache with...
by Mark Christian | Aug 2, 2009 | Off The Shelf |
Bookcase Location: OFF-THE-SHELF: Book-Burners’ Fuel for the Bonfire Great title – where’d that come from? The authors are first-rate cut ‘n paste artists (with the ‘interwebs’, who isn’t?). Unlike Ivy League students, who now consider it a minor technicality,...
