Books to read about kitchen

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain



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I love Bourdain's show on The Travel Channel and I've gotten lots of positive word of mouth reviews. (and his recent appearance on Top Chef was brilliant. How could you not love a guy who called one chef's food a mixture of "Betty Crocker and Charles Manson"?)

Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone by Rajiv Chandrasekaran


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This got a good review from Entertainment Weekly and I confess I was hooked just by the title.

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan


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Promiscuous plants. What's not to love?

The Pilot's Wife (Oprah's Book Club) by Anita Shreve



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I'm kind of wincing about choosing an Oprah's Book Club choice (altho I've read others I've liked-let's keep that between us.) But sometimes a good depressing novel is just the thing when you are bummed out about something in your own life.

At Play in the Fields of the Lord by Peter Matthiessen


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I've planned to read this several times and it keeps getting bumped for one reason or another. Sometimes it's fun to experience extreme discomfort vicariously.

Allure: Confessions of a Beauty Editor by Linda Wells


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Ok....it's not exactly Dosteovsky but I can't wait to get my hands on this guilty pleasure. Love the magazine and Linda is supposed to be a relatively nice, down-to-earth girl.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks



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I will watch almost any movie with zombies in it. I can't wait to get my hands on this book. Zombies=quality. It's Rule #1 of fiction.

Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid by Jimmy Carter


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Mr. Carter is possibly the greatest ex-President in history. I look forward to being inspired by his ideas on progress in Palestine.

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins


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The book I would write if I were a brilliant scientist and talented writer instead of a bleached blonde from Ohio who reads Allure magazine.

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris



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Love Sedaris on NPR and loved "Me Talk Pretty One Day." Laugh-out-loud sheer loveliness.

A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain


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I probably won't be able to read parts of this since I'm a wimpy vegetarian but I still can't wait to read about Bourdain eating that cobra heart.