A fun, idiosyncratic cookbook.
Not Les Halles, but w more recipes I'll actually make. I ❤ Bourdain because you know he told the publisher "get me Steadman for the cover or it's no deal."

best music book I've read in an age.

related, struggling to resist particularly lovely editions of books I don't even like that much.

my trouble here in Rome is resisting the urge to buy Italian editions of all my favorite books.

all of Melanie Watts' charming Chester books arrived today from Powell's. My son brought the first one home from his class library and was so obsessed with it I ordered the lot. He immediately turned off Adventure Time & read them all to me consecutively.

Son read me the whole thing last night, and now he's reading it to me again, so highest marks.

the b&w plates in this edition are like velvet, so creamy you want to pet them.

Surprisingly engaging look at cholera epidemics & the way class & wealth directed public policy...and still do.

it's all out there, for anyone to read.

Top drawer bedtime reading.
makes me wish I were my son's age again so I could properly obsess over it.