SFist Reads
SFist welcomes all our new food column contributors to SFist reads. We, ourselves, have been known to check out cookbooks we reserved online from the SF Public Library, but we're way more likely to just buy them for keeps from one of our fine local independent bookstores. What makes you decide to buy a book, as opposed to checking it out from the library? Tell us in the comments!
Before we get to the foodies, let's hear from our man on the scene at APE:
SFist Jer is still reading all the cool stuff he bought at APE over the weekend -- the latest Too Much Coffee Man Magazine; Horns of Hattin, a graphic novel about a historical battle between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades where the armies of the King of Jerusalem battled Saladin, medieval Islam's most famous sultan; and Teenagers From Mars. Also just finished the cover story in the latest Atlantic Monthly, a piece by Bernard-Henri Lévy, a Frenchman, on how America looks from a foreign perspective.
SFist Sam just finished Jacques Pepin's The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, her review of which you can read here.
SFist Derrick hit us with a whole list of books: Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, William Blundell's The Art and Craft of Feature Writing (sorry, folks, no library link for this one), and Stephen Brook's The Wines of Germany (ditto). And if that's not enough reading, he notes "And Melissa and I just finished (we read it aloud) Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher's Love by the Glass." Awwww.