Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Submit Your Best/Worst Reads of CBR17 by Saturday 12/13  

The Amaryllis Family (amaryllidaceae): they can make the mightiest warriors weep and drive vampires away.

Veg-table by Nik Sharma

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Nik Sharma is an auto-buy author for me. I think he is one of the most interesting people writing about food today.  Veg-table is more contained, and a little less daunting than The Flavor Bible, but it isn’t less exciting. If you are new to Nik Sharma, this is a great place to start. To clarify, Veg-table: Recipes, Techniques and Plant Science for Big-Flavored, Vegetable-Focused Meals is not a vegetarian or vegan cookbook. Some of the recipes do have meat and dairy, and some do not. Vegetables […]

The Dramatic Story of How Cup Noodle Came to Be

Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle by Tadashi Katoh

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Sadly this book is out of print and completely unavailable, which is a shame (the one copy I could find for sale is $87, so unless you’re so moved by my review that you’re willing to pay that, this is out of reach for most people). I luckily got this copy back when it first came out in 2006 and it’s a cult classic for me that I re-read every few years. Project X Challengers: Cup Noodle tells the dramatic story of how Cup Noodle was […]



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