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...Only a few recent DVDs, including the special editions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, can, with justification, rival Hellboy’s encyclopedic treatment of the imaginaries and pools of ink that gave rise to its film version. Of course, only the devil knows what kind of tome we’ll get after the inevitable Hellboy sequels...
...spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 2.3 kg and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds: this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber sandwiches...
...years, the best of that advice and more than 1,200 of the magazine's recipes have been revamped for modern kitchens in The Gourmet Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin). It's a spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 2.3 kg and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds: this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber sandwiches or coq au vin. Each chapter is punctuated...
...spicy meatball. Weighing in at a positively caloric 5 lbs. 2 oz. and 1,056 pages, this doorstop of a tome aims, in the words of editor Ruth Reichl, to be "a book that wants to live in your kitchen." For the most part, it succeeds; this is the sort of cookbook you want by your side whether you're attempting cucumber sandwiches...
...classic pre-imperial move, oblivious to the complex global consequences of one nation's actions within the powerful web of Empire. But the authors insist that Empire has an upside, that it creates an opportunity for a different kind of democracy, one that would encompass the world. Their latest tome, Multitude (Penguin Press; 427 pages), tells us how that will happen...