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pantryslutIt's time to admit what to some is already an obvious fact: I am addicted to cookbooks.
Today's lunch was not so successful -- I betrayed my Armenian deli to try a new Middle Eastern place, and I paid the price: pre-processed gyro slices cooked to a uniform gray. Ugh. Worse, I chose this place because they sell rice pudding, but today they were out.
I left craving something sweet to make me forget the taste in my mouth, but I couldn't find anything suitable. So I went to the bookstore instead, intending to browse the bargain books for a while.
The cookbooks are in the section just before the bargain books.
I walked away with three new acquisitons -- and this is despite the fact that I had to put up with a food-celebrity-worshipping mother and daughter duo browsing the shelves with me. And also despite the fact that I spent quality time with a cookbook catalog last night marking up my wish list.
Also, in the bargain section, I found...a biography of Mae West. I snatched it up quick, of course, and now I finally do know the details of her death (something which has been holding up the final draft of that poem you've all seen in progress). It's a very academic autobiography, and also apparently contends that a) Mae West used "African-American tradition of signification" and b) this, among other things, indicates that she may have been passing as white. I'm sure it's going to be an entertaining read, at least.
Usually, I don't read many biographies, for a variety of reasons. I don't like the tone of many of them, as if they could read their subjects' minds; I don't like the often awkward attempts to impose a narrative on a real person's messy, complicated life. But I'm halfway through a bio of Anna May Wong, and now this. I'm sure there are other biographical-leaning works on my to-read pile as well. I may have to rethink my position.
Today's lunch was not so successful -- I betrayed my Armenian deli to try a new Middle Eastern place, and I paid the price: pre-processed gyro slices cooked to a uniform gray. Ugh. Worse, I chose this place because they sell rice pudding, but today they were out.
I left craving something sweet to make me forget the taste in my mouth, but I couldn't find anything suitable. So I went to the bookstore instead, intending to browse the bargain books for a while.
The cookbooks are in the section just before the bargain books.
I walked away with three new acquisitons -- and this is despite the fact that I had to put up with a food-celebrity-worshipping mother and daughter duo browsing the shelves with me. And also despite the fact that I spent quality time with a cookbook catalog last night marking up my wish list.
Also, in the bargain section, I found...a biography of Mae West. I snatched it up quick, of course, and now I finally do know the details of her death (something which has been holding up the final draft of that poem you've all seen in progress). It's a very academic autobiography, and also apparently contends that a) Mae West used "African-American tradition of signification" and b) this, among other things, indicates that she may have been passing as white. I'm sure it's going to be an entertaining read, at least.
Usually, I don't read many biographies, for a variety of reasons. I don't like the tone of many of them, as if they could read their subjects' minds; I don't like the often awkward attempts to impose a narrative on a real person's messy, complicated life. But I'm halfway through a bio of Anna May Wong, and now this. I'm sure there are other biographical-leaning works on my to-read pile as well. I may have to rethink my position.
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First Steps
Date: 2004-10-26 02:52 pm (UTC)It's time to admit what to some is already an obvious fact: I am addicted to cookbooks.
They do say the first step to overcoming an addiction is to admit you have one. ;)
which ones
Date: 2004-10-26 04:15 pm (UTC)Re: which ones
Date: 2004-10-26 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: which ones
Date: 2004-10-26 10:28 pm (UTC)Re: which ones
Date: 2004-10-27 10:34 am (UTC)Re: which ones
Date: 2004-10-26 04:25 pm (UTC)