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Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes

10 best books like Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes (Mark Crick): Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments, The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea, Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder, Thirst, The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest, Trampoline: An Anthology, The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories, A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish, Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias, The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs

Readings: Essays and Literary Entertainments
AuthorMichael Dirda
ISBN0393324893
Intimate, humorous, and insightful, Readings is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the Washington Post and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. From a first reading of Beckett and Faulkner at the feet of an inspirational high-school English teacher...
The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea
AuthorMichael Harney
ISBN1594201382
Read Michael Harney's posts on the Penguin Blog.

The country’s leading connoisseur presents a comprehensive guide for developing your tea palate.

The Harney & Sons Guide to Tea transforms tea drinkers into tea experts. Written by one of the country’s leading tea professionals,...
Wonder Tales: The Book of Wonder and Tales of Wonder
AuthorLord Dunsany
ISBN0486432017
Irish writer Edward J. M. D. Plunkett (1878–1957), the eighteenth Baron Dunsany, was one of English literature's most original talents. The author of many of the best fantastic tales in the language, he was also a great influence on other writers of the genre. American novelist H. P. Lovecraft wrote:...
Thirst
AuthorKen Kalfus
ISBN1571310185
A few quite good stories, reminiscent of Calvino and Borges, surrounded by some okay stories. And then I remembered, Calvino and Borges do a pretty good Calvino and Borges as well--so I'll read them instead. If you only read one story from this collection, though read "Night And Day You Are The One"

I'll...
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest
AuthorRuss Kick
ISBN1609803809
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Publisher's Weekly "Best Summer Books of 2013"

The Daily Beast's "Brainy Summer Beach Reads"

The classic literary canon meets the comics artists, illustrators, and other artists who have remade reading in Russ Kick's magisterial, three-volume,...
Trampoline: An Anthology
AuthorKelly Link
ISBN1931520046
Hard to write a review of a collection of stories from different authors, as there's such a difference in quality. The longer stories tended to be the weakest; I couldn't even finish Jackson's insufferable, interminable "Crowd of Bone", and "Insect Dreams" was a slog, despite a good premise and setting....
The Ring of Brightest Angels Around Heaven: A Novella and Stories
AuthorRick Moody
ISBN0316706280
(view spoiler)[When I was young, I read too much too soon. This was probably one of them.

The inscription on the flap of the paperback copy of this (which I intend to hungrily peddle today to the local bookmongers before an evening spent in the kitchen of a restaurant whose name literally translates...
A Bee Stung Me So I Killed All the Fish
AuthorGeorge Saunders
A quick seven stories/essays, some of which are contained in "The Braindead Megaphone." Saunders is hilarious throughout, and I especially love "Flooding the Zone: A New Approach to Global Diplomacy" where Saunders proposes flooding the entirety of nations into one another for a period of time,...
Future Primitive: The New Ecotopias
AuthorKim Stanley Robinson
ISBN0312863500
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth.

Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered here in this volume...
The Whole Hog: Exploring the Extraordinary Potential of Pigs
AuthorLyall Watson
ISBN1588342166
Not all animals are created equal. For a start, pigs have it, sheep don’t; that is, that special quality of intelligence, a sense of play, and a gregariousness that make these tragically misunderstood—yet no less endearing—creatures more like us than any other animal. Best-selling author...
The Size of Thoughts: Essays and Other Lumber
AuthorNicholson Baker
ISBN0679776249
What happened to Nicholson Baker, I wonder? The earliest pieces collected in The Size of Thoughts are so dazzling that, when I first dipped into them, I nearly fell off my barstool. (Okay, it was actually a food court stool, but still, I was all set to jab my plastic fork in my chest out of sheer, dyspeptic...
The Book Club Cookbook
AuthorJudy Gelman
Featuring recipes and discussion ideas for one hundred popular book club selections, The Book Club Cookbook will guide you in selecting and preparing culinary masterpieces that blend perfectly with the literary masterpieces your club is reading.

Tandoori Shrimp with Life of Pi
Mint...
Kitchen Mysteries: Revealing the Science of Cooking (Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
AuthorHervé This
An international celebrity and founder of molecular gastronomy, or the scientific investigation of culinary practice, Herv' This is known for his ground-breaking research into the chemistry and physics behind everyday cooking. His work is consulted widely by amateur cooks and professional chefs...
The Book Lover's Cookbook
AuthorShaunda Kennedy Wenger
ISBN0345465466
THE BOOK LOVER’S COOKBOOK

Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature
and the Passages that Feature Them

Shaunda Kennedy Wenger and Janet Kay Jensen
Wake up to a perfect breakfast with Mrs. Dalby’s Buttermilk Scones, courtesy of James Herriot’s All Things...
The Italian Country Table: Home Cooking from Italy's Farmhouse Kitchens
AuthorLynne Rossetto Kasper
ISBN0684813254
If you dream of Italy—and who does not?—be prepared to fall in love with this extraordinary cookbook. Written by Lynne Rossetto Kasper, author of The Splendid Table: Recipes from Emilia-Romagna, the Heartland of Northern Italian Food (winner of both the James Beard and Julia Child/IACP Cookbook-of-the-Year...
Six Thousand Years of Bread: Its Holy and Unholy History
AuthorHeinrich Eduard Jacob
ISBN1558215751
Yeast, water, flour, and heat. How could this simple mixture have been the cause of war and plague, celebration and victory, supernatural vision and more? In this remarkable and all-encompassing volume, H.E. Jacob takes us through 6,000 dynamic years of bread's role in politics, religion, technology,...
Last Harvest: How a Cornfield Became New Daleville: Real Estate Development in America from George Washington to the Builders of the Twenty-First Century, and Why We Live in Houses Anyway
AuthorWitold Rybczynski
ISBN0743235967
Forgive me while I geek out over the next few paragraphs...

This book is a pretty decent recounting of the development process from inception to completion. For anyone who assumes that real estate developers are heartless, soulless, gutless, phallicly-challenged, money-grubbing bastards,...
Gastroanomalies: Questionable Culinary Creations from the Golden Age of American Cookery
AuthorJames Lileks
ISBN0307383075
This is a funny book, although sometimes the humor is just a bit too vulgar for me. I love Lilek's website - The Gallery of Regrettable Food. There's been times I've gotten on that website late at night and literally cried, I was laughing so hard. It's been a sure fire cheer-me-up. This is, so far, the only...
The 30-Minute Cook: The Best of the World's Quick Cooking
AuthorNigel Slater
ISBN0470237708
Nigel Slate ? Winner of the 1995 Glenfiddich Trophy and the Cookery Writer of the Year AwardFollowing the tremendous success of his first two books, Nigel Slater has spread his net wider to offer quick and delicious meals from Asia, India and China as well as dishes from Europe.

"An inspired...
The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside
AuthorAmanda Hesser
ISBN0393046680
The unique, award-winning cookbook—a collection of seasonal recipes from a traditional French garden.

The Cook and the Gardener is Amanda Hesser's first book. From the opening lines of its introduction, her literary gifts are as evident as her passion for good food. Since this work combines...
The Hungry Scientist Handbook: Electric Birthday Cakes, Edible Origami, and Other DIY Projects for Techies, Tinkerers, and Foodies
AuthorPatrick Buckley
ISBN0061238686
Inventive, (mostly) edible DIY gadgets and projects guaranteed to captivate

The Hungry Scientist Handbook brings DIY technology into the kitchen and onto the plate. It compiles the most mouthwatering projects created by mechanical engineer Patrick Buckley and his band of intrepid techie...
Great Books for Every Book Lover: 2002 Great Reading Suggestions for the Discriminating Bibliophile
AuthorThomas J. Craughwell
Can't decide what to read? Imagine a list of the greatest books described in concise, insightful and witty profiles to browse in search of the next perfect read. 2002 Great Books for Every Book Lover offers all this and more, reviewing each book with the wit and wisdom of a seasoned book critic in this unique...
The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
AuthorJeff Martin
ISBN1593764049
The way we absorb information has changed dramatically. Edison’s phonograph has been reincarnated as the iPod. Celluloid went digital. But books, for the most part, have remained the same—until now. And while music and movies have undergone an almost Darwinian evolution, the literary world...
Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen
AuthorMollie Katzen
ISBN0061732435
Get Cooking accomplishes an almost impossible feat: to break down cooking into its simplest components and appeal to complete novices while still providing something for grizzled cooking veterans. This is the best book I’ve ever seen for newbies, making recommendations on knives, bowls, everything...
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