mouse started reading Cylinder Seals by Henri Frankfort
The other Sumer book I'm reading is pretty dry, but I am so enthused about getting extremely specific here
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mouse finished reading Sumer and Its City-States by Michael D. Danti
I put this on hold at the library thinking it was a book but it turned out to be a children's pamphlet. That surprise aside, it was quite good!
mouse commented on Vegan Meat Cookbook by Miyoko Schinner
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the trumpet mushroom bacon is good! I've been looking for a replacement for my seitan-based bacon and I think this is a keeper.
mouse commented on Vegan Meat Cookbook by Miyoko Schinner
Content warning this is the pettiest recipe pet peeve, but:
when she lists ingredients that will go in at the same time, she will list wet ingredients before dry ingredients the use the same measuring tool. So my tablespoon with be covered in oil or whatever and I can't dip it into my nutritional yeast jar without cleaning and drying it first. If she listed the dry ingredients first, it would be no problem.
mouse commented on Vegan Meat Cookbook by Miyoko Schinner
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I fuckin love making vegan meat, if I can find yuba I'm gonna try the chicken breast stuffed with butternut squash and champagne pomegranate sauce TONIGHT
mouse commented on The Noma Guide to Fermentation by René Redzepi
At Noma--four times named the world's best restaurant--every dish includes some form of fermentation, whether …
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The first chapter is lactic acid fermentation -- I started four batches:
- King oyster mushrooms
- Red pears
- Plums
- Tomatoes
See yall in a week I guess!
mouse commented on The Sumerians by Samuel Noah Kramer
The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first …
Reading books out of the bibliography of the last book you read is the real recommendation algorithm
mouse commented on Arsène Lupin by Maurice LeBlanc and Edgar Jepson
LeBlanc's creation, gentleman thief Arsene Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat …
well that was delightful
mouse commented on The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
Content warning light spoilers to about half way through
I am really really hoping we aren't heading to a big love triangle between Piya, Kanai, and Fokir. Just absolutely not feeling any of that at all, living in hope that we don't go there but every time the smell of someone's skin gets described, I worry
mouse commented on The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth …
I think I picked this up based on a review I saw here and I'm really liking it so far!
mouse commented on Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth by Diane Wolkstein
A fresh retelling of the ancient texts about Ishtar, the world's first goddess. Illustrated with …
done with summer, not done with Sumer
mouse commented on Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
This was great, and a well needed light diversion. Recommended!
mouse commented on Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (Norton Critical Editions)
"Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the …
I'm listening to the Moby Dick Big Read version this time around
mouse commented on Eight Flavors by Sarah Lohman
“Very cool…a breezy American culinary history that you didn’t know you wanted” (Bon Appetit …
yes hello I am ready for low-emotional-stakes reading about the flavor profiles of different peppercorns, thank you
mouse commented on Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Almost everything about Wallace is at odds with the Midwestern university town where he is …
this book is great but whew, my next novel is going to be an order of magnitude less heavy