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"FacebookPinterest\n\n Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Home Cooking with Jean-Georges: My Favorite Simple Recipes\n\n At none of Jean-Georges's twenty-four establishments does the food scream DIY, so forgive us for reading his cookbook with some suspicion. Simple's great, bro, but it's antithetical to his appeal and he knows it. Which is why it's not very surprising that every third recipe or so cross-references to another, and why a number of the them link back to the dreaded Pantry section, a glossary of more than a dozen hard-to-find ingredients that he kind of just can't do without. (If you're not in a city with its own Chinatown, good luck.) Jean-George's pseudo-simple ginger soda makes a neat little case-in-point. The recipe's pretty clear: 1/4 ginger syrup, 3/4 soda. Stir with straw, pour over ice, serve immediately. Ah, but that ginger syrup\u2014the recipe is in the back, and it only keeps for a couple of days. When you have to turn the stove on to make yourself a refreshing drink, that's when you know it's not worth it. But if you have a couple of hours and a nearby boutique grocer, go nuts. (And if you're going nuts, might as well go pistachio, and give the pistachio pesto recipe a try.)\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Michael Gross, Unreal Estate\n\n Michael Gross has been chronicling the real estate habits of the moneyed set for some time; at this point, if anyone's an expert at it, it's him. Unreal Estate is his West Coast answer to 2005's 740 Park, which cracked open a famously fancy co-op building on the Upper East Side. (Midwestern readers: I know, our coastal narcissism is awful.) This time, he tackles the hills surrounding Los Angeles, a great bastian of the over-large, barely lived-in homes of famous people. Herein, we discover what Larry Flint, Sonny and Cher, and Tony Curtis all have in common. (Other than a very specific sex appeal.)\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n John Updike, Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism\n\n Updike's a good essayist and all, and he knows a thing or two about fiction, but we think this book makes a clear case for Updike's true calling: golf writer: Here, presented without further comment, an extended metaphor on golf-as-a-woman:\n\nGolf isn't exactly choosy, you'd have to say, but she can turn a cold shoulder to anybody on a given date. If there's any one kind of suitor she consistently rejects it's the jittery, overanxious kind, worrywarts who for all their lesson and driving-range prowess whiff on the first tee and stub a crucial three-foot putt on the eighteenth green. Golf likes a bit of sangfroid, the \"What, me worry?\" slouch, and spurns those who care too much or try too hard. I've tried not caring, but maybe I've tried to hard. She's an intuitive old girl; she sniffs you out. Those extra ten yards you think you can squeeze out of your swing\u2014she's on to you while the club is still approaching horizontal. She likes guys (gals, too\u2014she's through with gender hang-ups) who keep things simple and don't mind repeating themselves. And that, it breaks my heart to have at last perceived, lets me out.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs\n\n A brief history of the various release dates of Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography, as compared to events in Steve Jobs' life:\n\n Original release date: March 6, 2012 (tentative title: iSteve: The Book of Jobs)\n\n July 5: Book renamed Steve Jobs.\n\n Aug 16: New release date of November 21st.\n\n Aug 24: Jobs announces resignation.\n\n Oct 5: Steve Jobs dies.\n\n Oct 6: Book hits number one on Amazon Preorder list.\n\n Oct 6: New release date of October 24th.\n\n Oct 7: Sony buys movie rights.\n\n Oct 24: On sale. Sells 379,000 copies in first week, beating John Grisham's The Litigators, the next bestselling book, three to one.\n\n\n\nFacebookPinterest\n\n John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead\n\n Don't take our word for it\u2014 we've been co-chairs of the Sullivan fan-club for years. Just read the interview with him, or a few of his old stories."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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