Excellent!
Books about food and cooking from NPR:
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Currently reading T. Harry Williams’s legendary biography of Huey Long (1969), and #20 in James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux series, Light of the Moon (2013).
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I just finished White Noise and am moving on to Babel. Not sure White Noise was worth all the time invested – the whole thing seemed very tongue in cheek. I did relate to a lot of the post-disaster situation, though. Anyone else read that one?
I really love Babel. It pains me that my daughter won’t watch it, I know she’d find it interesting. She refuses to read my Moth books too. Stubborn, resists what I want her to do.
When she was a teen she read a lot but was refusing to read The Catcher in the Rye I’d bought her. I think it was because the cover is very plain, nothing enticing.
Finally she read it and loved it.
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Currently:
‘Whose Names Are Unknown’ by Sanora Babb. Dust Bowl/ Steinbeck/Grapes of Wrath Controversy.
I just finished catching up on the November 25 New Yorker.
‘Lake Tahoe’s Bear Boom’ was quite informational for me, as living in the increasing wildlifeand human conflicts, of the Rocky Mountain west.
Speaking of bears…‘The Bear’ by Andrew Krivak remains my #1 read of all time. This is not about the culinary world.
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I picked up two books from the library yesterday. Louise Penny’s Grey Wolf and Southern Man by Greg Iles. I was astounded to find that the Iles book is 967 pages of small print. 
I hope nobody else reserves it because there is no way I can finish it by it’s due date.
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I really enjoyed this article because there’s a lot of “grandma foods” I eat these days that I never would have imagined myself eating when I was a young whippersnapper.
I’m still not “comfortable” starting a thread/making a post here on my own, though. Thank you in advance for understanding/accepting that.
Link without paywall from news aggregator: https://dnyuz.com/2024/11/28/grandma-foods/
Original NYT link (Sorry that the preview isn’t working in the way that it should.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/opinion/food-thanksgiving-digestion-aging.html
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Fun article - thanks!
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For me, that never seems to work with gift links. I too have tried to add the “regular” link for the preview, but without success. Are you starting with the app or NYT online? I wonder if that makes a difference.
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Jaffa Cakes ftw!
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This was a very interesting article and the end gave me the warm fuzzies!
Original link from the WSJ via Apple News:
Paywalled WSJ link:
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/the-closely-guarded-secrets-of-manhattan-doormen-49bf5236
Link to story via Yahoo (should be available to anyone):
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I’ve heard so much about this!!! I would really make time to read this.
I’m 30% in and loving it so far.
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It’s the sort of movie you could watch several times, getting something new each time. I wanted my daughter to watch it so I could discuss it with her!
It’s a movie too?
I only know it as a movie, with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett.
An accident connects four groups of people on three different continents: two young Moroccan goatherds, a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican
Oh, we are talking about two different Babels. Oh well. 
I Just finished Stanley Tucci’s What I Ate in One Year. It’s exactly that, day to day reports of what he did and what he ate. Sadly, it’s not very interesting. He doesn’t have the flair for food writing that even people here on HO have–too many days were like “I made pasta alla norma, which came out great. The kids had plain spaghetti with butter and cheese”, or “We ate out at Riva, and the food was delicious”. But I did get at least one inspiration from it, cod alla Livornese, which he made several times. I’ll be making that soon. And shepherds/cottage pie.
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