The OED word of the day almost always cracks me up. The word today is whelk. Already kind of funny, right? I mean it's hard to think of a situation where you'd really need to be able to talk about whelks. But then I scroll down to the various adjunct entries (obsolete uses, compounds and the like) and find: to be unable to run a whelk stall: an
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Er, I hear good things about Ruth Reichl's foodie memoirs, although I haven't read them. What about Jeffrey Steingarten?
I have no salad info to share, sorry.... [is ashamed of letting you down]
Hugs hugs!
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*suffers from unreliable memory*
Have you actually eaten whelk? My one and only whelk 'experience' is a children's book called 'Down By Jim Long's Stage' about a bunch of fish who are rather mean to each other. I think they pick on the whelk.
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linney, i am so tired this morning and i so much want to be finished with my job. *naps on you*
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*nods*
I'm so sorry, kitten. How many weeks have you got to go? Is it to early to start counting down the days?
*hugs you and tries to make the time pass quicker*
Hey, so I just realized you probably have an apartment in Chapel Hill now. Do you?
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I should, of course, have said that I've read everything by cee, inkstain and lale a dozen times over. But good call, for sure. Anything else come to mind?
Thanks for the book recs. The second sounds particularly fascinating - I'll keep my eyes out for it.
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*punches anyone who says different*
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he writes his essays and articles in much the same style as his fiction, so it's certainly possible you won't enjoy it at all.
what area of history do you like? i can maybe help there. :)
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History-wise? Honest to god anything. Er, ok, probably not so much the history of the Red Socks, but just about anything else works for me. I've read the history of the the Detroit auto industry, and books about the battle of Tonkin and a book about the development of banking infrastructure in 12th century Europe and North Africa.
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Have you read MFK Fisher? I assume so.
My favorite nonfiction writer of all is AJ Liebling, whose marvelous book "The Telephone Booth Indian" was recently reprinted in paperback. It consists of pieces he wrote for The New Yorker in the late thirties and forties, mostly about New Yorkish things. If you can find another of his books, "Back Where I Came From," which is all about New York, you'll be very happy.
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Hurrah!
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