Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? by Stephen Shaskan
One of the things I like about graphic novels is that they do not “look” like a book. They are books, but they have this feeling they are not really a book to a reluctant or early reader. Does this make them the best format to read? Maybe/Maybe not. But you and your friends can vote on it, like best friends Pizza and Taco do in Pizza and Taco: Who’s the Best? But like any election, there is a lead up to why there is […]
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard
Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story by Kevin Noble Maillard is a recent book (if has not already will be) getting awards, attention and reviewed everyplace possible. Is this book worth the attention? Perhaps. Is it this “far out best story ever”? Maybe. Are the illustrations the “far out best ever seen”? Maybe. That is a personal choice for the reader to decide. This is a book you might need to read multiple times. The story itself is straight forward. Basically, it is little poems […]
The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner
Earlier this year I’ve reviewed a book about disordered eating and mentioned that eating disorders were common in my profession. After reading that book, I did what any smart person does; I read the comments on the internet! Really! There are some useful subreddits about disordered eating and intuitive eating, and many of those mentioned actor/creative Caroline Dooner’s The F*ck It Diet. I honestly dismissed the book because of its trendy use of f*ck in the title. It felt like it was screaming, “This isn’t your parents’ […]
Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen by Yasmin Khan
Best for: Those looking for a cookbook filled with gorgeous photos as well as stories from the people who prepare the recipes. In a nutshell: Travel and food writer Khan visits cities throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territories, meeting with Palestinians to learn about their food, as well as their lives under occupation. Worth quoting: ‘I stay hopeful because I believe apartheid will eventually be defeated.’ ‘I understand that you want to share our culture, but you can’t discuss Palestinian food without talking about the Occupation.’ […]
8 Keys to End Emotional Eating by Howard Farkas
Like many professionals, I have to attend annual continuing education sessions. In one recent session I learned that depression and suicide are many times higher in my field than they are in most others, excluding dentists and doctors. This wasn’t shocking or new to me. What was new was finding out that many students and professionals in my field meet the criteria for diagnosis of various flavors of disordered eating. After thinking about it for a few days, I figured out I was one of those […]
Gastrophysics by Charles Spense
I have a problem with books about food. Not recipe books, although that’s a thing too, books about cooking, flavors, culinary science. I’m fully aware that food writing could easily be subbed in for music in that Frank Zappa quote about how “writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” but I don’t care, I’m here for it. There’s a dozen tweets about how frustrating it is to pull up a recipe and be confronted with three pages of why the author loves the flavors; […]
