Book Club
Oct 17, 2025
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5 min read
The embedded discourse of Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor.
Sep 19, 2025
6 min read
The 1970 hybrid cookbook-memoir by Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor is a classic.
Jul 18, 2025
Plus, some notes on the second half of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
Jun 20, 2025
7 min read
I’m an Anya von Bremzen fangirl, and here are Desk Book Club notes.
May 16, 2025
8 min read
The notes on the second half of our current book club selection, ‘Between Two Waters’—plus news!
Apr 18, 2025
The Desk Book Club: ‘Between Two Waters’ by Pam Brunton (Part I)
Mar 21, 2025
10 min read
Gentrification and the question of self-reliance.
Feb 21, 2025
The Zoom link for Sunday and my notes on this novel.
Jan 24, 2025
Grief, gender, and the way food cuts through it all.
Jan 20, 2025
46 min read
He's a BBC radio journalist and author of 'Eating to Extinction.'
Nov 22, 2024
3 min read
Join the Desk Book Club for a chat with journalist Dan Saladino.
Oct 25, 2024
Efficiency + scale = survival x profit
Sep 27, 2024
Diversity is survival.
Jul 19, 2024
Here are the six books we'll be reading in 2025.
Jun 21, 2024
Plus: Zoom info for Sunday!
May 31, 2024
4 min read
The good and the uncomfortable in the first half of Aribisala's essay collection.
May 3, 2024
And here's the reading and discussion schedule for the next.
Apr 19, 2024
Sunday Zoom details! Plus: Finishing the book and considering adequacy.
Mar 22, 2024
How do we strike the right balance between necessity and joy?
Feb 23, 2024
There's a whole lot of spatter. Also: Link for Sunday's Zoom chat.
Jan 19, 2024
Oil splatter, apron strings, and the start of an epic.
Jan 5, 2024
It's the monthly recommended reading roundup.
Dec 8, 2023
All four, with a schedule.
