Reading Envy 171: Foodie Recommendations with Jen Nathan Orris

Jenny reached out to the host of her favorite foodie podcast to see if she would be interested in collaborating on a recommendations episode - just in time for the holidays! We cover a range of types of books - cookbooks, essays, memoir - and have a few titles from the backlist to recommend as well. The second season of the Skillet podcast goes live the same day this episode, so I hope you'll give both a listen!

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Books discussed:



Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver 
The Nordic Baking Book by Magnus Nilsson
Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African-American Cooking by Toni Tipton-Martin
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi 
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman
Women on Food ed. by Charlotte Druckman
Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds of Ideas for Home Cooking Triumphs by Julia Turshen
The Modern Cook's Year by Anna Jones
Mixtape Potluck Cookbook by Questlove
South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock
The Jewish Cookbook by Leah Koenig
The Best American Food Writing 2019 edited by Samin Nosrat

Other mentions:

ASAP's Farm Tour (Western North Carolina)
Chef's Table - Magnus Nilsson (tv show)
Nilsson - Thick Oven-Baked Pancake with Apple on JennyBakes
The Cooking Gene by Michael Twitty
Top Chef Season 13
Kith and Kin
Where I Come From by Aaron Sanchez
Alison Roman on Instagram
Feed the Resistance by Julia Turshen
Dorie Greenspan
Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan and Julia Child
Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan
Keep Calm and Cook On podcast
Jones - Whole-wheat spelt, date, and molasses scones on JennyBakes
Jones - Cauliflower rice with fried eggs and green chutney on JennyBakes
Chef's Table episode with Sean Brock
Heritage by Sean Brock
Brock - Peanut Butter Chess Pie on JennyBakes
Best American Food Writing 2018 edited by Ruth Reichl
The Bitter Southerner

Related Episodes (and Posts):

Episode 064 - Reading Down the Rabbit Hole with guest Tracy Landrith
Episode 143 - Reading the Pain with Kala
Recommended Reads in Biography and Memoir: Foodie (July 2017)


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New Books In, July 2016

The Folly by Ivan Vladislavic
Absolute Solitude: Selected Poems by Dulce Maria Loynaz
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
In Praise of Defeat: Poems by Abdellatif Laabi
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
A Dangerous Place by Jacqueline Winspear
The Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah
The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov
The Geometry of Love by Jessica Levine
The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
The Girls by Emma Cline
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook edited by Sean Williams
The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook Volume II edited by Sean Williams
The Vegetable Butcher by Cara Mangini

July was a great month for books! It was my birthday month, and many of these are birthday gifts - the McLain, Winspear, Beah, Elizarov, Williams (x2), and Mangini. Many of those were from my wishlist so that's always awesome, and the Beah and McLain will be good books for my Africa 2016 reading project.

Two of the books were purchased because I knew I'd see the authors and wanted to get them signed: the VanderMeer(s) and Heuvelt.  I always buy the VanderMeer anthologies and have a big shelf of them, but this time I've actually started reading some of the stories.

 

The Cline was July's Book of the Month pick, the Levine was a Goodreads giveaway, and the trio of Vladislavic, Loynaz, and Laabi were a generous gift from Archipelago Press. Two of them will be great for my Africa 2016 reading project!

Library Books Mid-December 2015

These piles represent the second half of (New Zealand) November and the beginning of the last month of the year, where I know I will have more time to read over the holidays but the interlibrary loan deadlines happen early. So get ready. I actually had to take pictures in batches because I checked out and finished so many already, and then got a bunch more.

The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera
Potiki by Patricia Grace
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
Far Eastern Cookery by Elinor Burt
The Adventures of Vela by Albert Wendt
When Sun And Moon Collide by Briar Grace-Smith
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco
Sam Choy's Polynesian Kitchen by Sam Choy
The Ethnomusicologists' Cookbook by X Williams

The Williams, Choy, and Burt were research for cooking baking in Oceania, to coincide with my reading. The Burt was useless, more like mid-19th century processed food recipes with a few Polynesian ingredients like canned pineapple. I loved the Williams and will probably need to own it - each featured country also has a bibliography of recommended readings (usually ethnographies) and music to listen to. It was a great connection to my former life in an ethnomusicology grad program.

I went to the stacks to pull a few books from New Zealand. If you know the Library of Congress system at all, you know that literature is shelved first by country and then by author. I grabbed the Grace-Smith and Ihimaera but then just a few shelves away found the Wendt. I had a brief lapse where I forgot I wasn't including Southeast Asia in this year's big reading project; Ilustrado has been returned to the library and will wait for another year. I requested the Grace through interlibrary loan after the recommendation from a Goodreads friend.

I wanted to read the Dick before watching the television series, although now that I have finished the book and started the show, I know that they are vaguely related. One does not necessarily need to be consumed before the other. Ah well. It wasn't my favorite Philip K. Dick novel but it was fine. I finished the Nelson this weekend - this book I got through interlibrary loan after Carrie Brownstein mentioned it in the Q&A of her audiobook recording for Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl.

 
Sons for the Return Home by Albert Wendt
Dear Thief by Samantha Harvey
The Spell of the Pacific by Stroven & Day
Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson
African Kitchen by Josie Fison
The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa by Marcus Samuelsson

The bottom two cookbooks give a clue about next year's regional reading project. The Wendt and Stroven are both for reading Oceania - the large tomb is a result of reading a mention of it in a book I recently finished - Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All.  The Harvey was one of the many books listed in the Tournament of Books Longlist for 2016, and sounded interesting. I also hadn't heard of it yet, while many of their books were known to me.

Jenny's Books Added March 2015

Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Tenth of December by George Saunders
Open City by Teju Cole
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee
Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont
More Mexican Everyday by Rick Bayless
City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

This month the books I've brought in have a wide range and purpose.

There is a great author series down at the University of South Carolina called The Open Book, and I'm going to be able to go see Chang-Rae Lee, Teju Cole, and just saw George Saunders.  That was the reason for ordering their books this month, although I had already read the Saunders and Cole (I had an audiobook of the Saunders and a library book of the Cole, but nothing that could be signed.)

The Bayless, Pierpont, and City Lights anthology are review copies from either Edelweiss or NetGalley.  The poetry anthology is here just in time for National Poetry Month!

The Flanagan was a deal in Amazon, and I had signed up to take a MOOC on Australian lit where this was one of the reading selections.  Since I have yet to do any of the reading for the MOOC and already read a Flanagan in the last year, I'm thinking that will linger a while before I get to reading it.