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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the
Elements of Good Cooking
Samin Nosrat (Simon & Schuster)
Nosrat, who got her start in the
kitchen of Alice Waters, burst onto the
cookbook scene this year with this exceptional one, her first. She conveys the
essential elements of cooking with
tempting recipes, accompanied by fun
and helpful illustrations and charts by
Wendy MacNaughton.
WD~50: The Cookbook
Wylie Dufresne, with Peter Meehan (Ecco)
Dufresne opened his landmark restaurant, Wd- 50, on New York City’s Lower
East Side in 2003, and in this outstanding, wonderfully photographed
cookbook he shares his genius methods.
Sure, many of the recipes may be inaccessible to novice home cooks, but the cookbook inspires and offers a great opportunity to fantasize.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the
Power of Sleep and Dreams
Matthew Walker (Simon & Schuster)
This unique health treatise begins
with the reminder that, until very
recently, the process of sleep was profoundly mysterious. Neuroscientist and
first-time author Walker
conveys up-to-date findings
in an accessible conversational style, enlivened by
anecdotes—a concert pianist
who can “just play” even the
most demanding piece after
a good night’s sleep—and
facts—such as that lack of
sleep can literally kill.
RELIGION
Bible Nation:
The United States of Hobby Lobby
Candida R. Moss and Joel S. Baden
(Princeton Univ.)
Moss, professor of the New Testament
and early Christianity at Notre Dame,
and Baden, professor of the Hebrew
Bible at Yale, pull the curtain back on
the Green family, billionaire owners of
Hobby Lobby and creators of the
Museum of the Bible opening November
17 in Washington, D.C., in this pene-
trating and often shocking
account of how a powerful
few are influencing American
Christianity.
The Evangelicals:
The Struggle to Shape
America
Frances FitzGerald (Simon &
Schuster)
FitzGerald, historian and
journalist who won the
Pulitzer Prize and National
Book Award for Fire in the Lake, turns her
attention to the origins of American
evangelicalism in this comprehensive
study. In accessible prose, FitzGerald
