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Title: Hunger: An Unnatural History
Author: Sharman Apt Russell
Genre: Nonfiction
Year: 2005
Acquired: Library (upon @BibioEva’s Twitter suggestion)
Rating:
One Sentence Summary: Hunger: An Unnatural History is an overview of the science, sociology, and moral implications of hunger and it’s impact across the globe.
One Sentence Review: This book covers a little too much territory for my tastes, [...]
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One Sentence Summary: To learn to be a chef, journalist Bill Buford follows the path of celebrity chef Mario Batali from the kitchen of Batali’s restaurant in New York back to the origins of Batali’s cooking education in rural Italy.
One Sentence Review: Buford’s profile of a chef and his restaurant were more interesting than Buford’s own attempts to learn the origins of Italian cooking, but the book’s look at what it means to be a chef from the inside was readable, and made me happy I don’t lead that life 
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This week author Michal Pollan was in Madison for a huge series of events because his book In Defense of Food was picked for UW-Madison’s first ever common reading program, Go Big Read. It feels like the whole campus has been buzzing because of his visit.
Or, it just feels like the whole campus because [...]
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One of my assignment for my magazine writing class this semester is to blog regularly over at Eat. Drink. Better., a member of Green Options Media that “invites readers to explore the environmental issues surrounding their food choices.”
I’ll be blogging about healthy eating and nutrition specifically, with a side emphasis on books since that’s something [...]
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This weeks Monday Tally is pretty heavy on articles from MSN, which is probably a good indication that I didn’t have as much time to randomly surf the internet as I usually do. Instead, most of the things I read came from links off my homepage, a vicious cycle of being spoon-fed articles from [...]
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