Maybe you’re like this Books@Torontoist editor and have dozens (okay, hundreds) of cookbooks lining your kitchen, though you rarely cook. Or maybe you’re the adventurous culinary type and not only break out those cookbooks, you adapt recipes to your liking or throw caution into the wind and abandon them all together. What we do have in common (along with millions of others) is our love for the great literary form that is the cookbook. This week’s New Yorker attempts to figure out why.
Feeling left out because you missed Sarah Palin on Oprah last night? Read the New York Times’ review of Sarah’s memoir Going Rogue. Unless you like watching train wrecks, you didn’t miss much.
First Facebook took over your life, now it’s taking over your dictionary. Oxford Word of the Year? “Unfriend.” Task: Go use that in a sentence. That was too easy – use it in a sentence unrelated to the Internet.
Let’s end this news round-up with some book lovers’ porn. The Book Cover Archive put together the 10 best book covers of the decade and the list is a beaut.
