Cannonball Read 11

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A Fun Read for Beer Enthusiasts (aka Humanity)

The Comic Book Story of Beer: The World's Favorite Beverage from 7000 BC to Today's Craft Brewing Revolution by Jonathan Hennessey, Mike Smith

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Do you enjoy beer? Do you have beer-appreciating friends with upcoming birthdays? I’ve got just the book for you! The Comic Book Story of Beer is a gorgeously and ornately illustrated history of the brewski. As the title implies, the 173 pages of this book covers everything from the misty origins of beer through prohibition, homogenization, and the recent fanning out of styles and breweries. It’s not too detailed to boring for the casual drinker, and it’s not so broad that beer nerds won’t learn anything new. There are really two or three levels to review here – first the art. […]

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2/8/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:6 |

The cookbook I never knew I always wanted, mostly

Smith & Deli-Cious: Food from Our Deli (that Happens to be Vegan) by Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse

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This is a thing I didn’t know I had been waiting for: a vegan cookbook that has no shame in noting that one of the authors and apparently main recipe developer is not vegan! According to the intro, which also does the standard how to stock a vegan pantry to use this book thing, both Mo Wyse and Shannon Martinez (who is the still not vegan- you are my peoples!- but likes the food and the challenge of adapting) were feeling limited by their single location restaurant (I think the basis of their first cookbook), and thus they expanded to […]

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1/27/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:5 |

If you find me mainlining a baguette in February, this is why

The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom by Melissa Hartwig

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  I’m not a “diet person” and I’m especially not a trendy diet person. So it’s kind of surprising that I even latched on to this plan. However, as Melissa Hartwig will emphasize throughout the book, this is not a diet or a weight loss plan. This is a 30 day “reset” to help you change your relationship with food an understand how different foods affect your body. This resonated with me as someone who immediately begins stress eating as soon as things get tough. I like the idea of reducing cravings and having more energy so if those are […]

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1/18/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

How I Learned to Accept my Hangover

A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present by Mark Forsyth

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I don’t know how I found this book, but somehow while freezing on the train platform in Tokyo on New Year’s morning, I located this little gem. I started to read it on my phone, as I stood huddled in a train car trying to not get elbowed by too many hungover locals on their way to see family. I’m told by a coworker that it’s a tradition in Japan. First you get hammered on New Year’s Eve and then travel to see your family the next day. If you’re young enough sometimes you’re still drunk and haven’t been to […]

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1/16/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

Buttermilk Onions Cheese Life Lessons

Salt Fat Acid Heat by Samin Nosrat, Wendy McNaughton

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The lovely and amazing narfna was my CBR10 Book Exchange gifter last year. She shopped from my wish list and bought Salt Fat Acid Heat. I love cooking and cookbooks. I have worked as a chef professionally, but all my training has been at home and ad hoc in bakeries and small food shops. Samin Nosrat’s training has been in some of the best kitchens in the world. When I read how she got her job at Chez Panisse I was horribly jealous and thought, “You can do that? You can just ASK for a job?” In my next life, […]

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1/14/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:2 |

Quick Charming Read to Start the Year

Whiskey in a Teacup by Reese Witherspoon

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I put myself on the waiting list at my library for this book because I enjoy Reese Witherspoon. I like that she is pushing for more female led productions and she is charming in interviews. I didn’t really know anything about the book but figured it would be a memoir of sorts (maybe not told chronologically similar to Amy Poehler’s book that I just read). While the book does have memories and stories it is more of a love letter and glimpse into the life of a middle/upper middle class southern white woman. This is not a bad thing. I […]

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1/13/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |

In which the cute cooking manga takes a depressing turn

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 5 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

Kitchen Princess: Vol. 6 by Natsumi Ando (artist), Miyuki Kobayashi (writer)

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Last year my seven year old got into a cute cooking manga called Kitchen Princess.  I read and reviewed book one for Cannonball Read 10 but then only skimmed through the second through fourth books.  After reading volumes five and six my daughter somberly told me that a character had died and requested that I read them too.  This was an unexpected turn for a shojo manga.  The first four volumes contained a beginning love triangle between female protagonist Najika Kazami and brothers Daichi and Sora Kitazawa, friendship, mean girl rivalry, family turmoil, competitions, and lots of cooking and baking.  Najika is […]

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1/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:3 |

Well, I WAS With You

I’m With Fatty by Edward Ugel

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I made it rain at the friends of the library book sale just prior to my annual promise not to buy more books until I read everything in my unread stack (almost always 50 books no matter what I do), and like any good binge it was all impulse. I love personal challenge essays (see above – although I will never ever succeed in diminishing that unread stack, my novels apparently breed in captivity) and for two bucks, how bad could this be? (How many of my reviews have some variant of this sentence? Do I never learn anything?) Not […]

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1/6/2019 | 's CBR11 Review No:1 |


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