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Serious Pig
An American Cook in Search of His Roots
2000
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In this collection of essays, John Thorne sets out to explore the origins of his identity as a cook, going "here" (the Maine coast, where he'd summered as a child and returned as an adult for a decade's sojourn), "there" (southern Louisiana, where he was captivated by Creole and Cajun cooking), and "everywhere" (where he provides a sympathetic reading of such national culinary icons as the hamburger, white bread, and American cheese, and sits down to a big bowl of Texas red). These intelli...
2020
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(Sep. 1992) - Fire Walk With Me review; Twin Peaks second season; promo cards; calendar; magazine checklist, Part 1. NOTE: This is the 1st Edition version of Issue #1. A second printing (with additional material) was released in October 1993.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. WIP regularly featured in-depth analyses of films (and other...
Mouth Wide Open
A Cook and His Appetite
2008
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Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. In Mouth Wide Open, his fifth collection, he has prepared a feast for the senses and intellect, charting a cook's journey from ingredient to dish in illuminating essays that delve into the intimate pleasur...
Baseball in the Garden of Eden
The Secret History of the Early Game
2011
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Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright.But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from other bat-and-ball games? John Thorn, baseball’s preeminent historian, examines th...
1994
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"For my mind and money, John Thorne is the best American food writer alive, and Outlaw Cook is the Physiology of Taste of our time." —Alton BrownIn essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on the food writers of the past ten years, John Thorne argues that to eat exactly what you want, you have to make it yourself. Thorne tells us how he le...
Pot on the Fire
Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook
2011
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Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" ( Connoisseur). As the title suggests, it celebrates-and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, probes, and scrutinizes-a lifelong engagement with the elements of cooking, and elemental cooking from cioppino to kedgeree. John Thorne's curiosity ranges far and wide, from nineteenth-century famine-struck Ireland to the India of th...
2013
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Ranging from the Egypt of the Pharaohs to the present day, Historical Atlas of Dermatology and Dermatologists offers a unique insight into the history of dermatology and the influences that led to present practice. It sheds new light on the emergence of dermatology as a separate medical speciality and on some of the key players who have contributed to its development. Arranged as an illustrated time-line this volume features an exceptional range of historical plates such as 'Molluscum cont...
2020
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(Dec. 1992) - Interview with film critic Joe Bob Briggs; a response to the critical reaction to FWWM; comprehensive Twin Peaks character relationship chart; Twin Peaks magazine checklist, part 2; reviews of TP books.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. WIP regularly featured in-depth analyses of films (and other projects) by Lynch, inter...
2020
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(Apr. 1998) - Finally, WIP takes an in-depth (13-page!) look at Fire Walk With Me! Plus: the "uncut" FWWM (including a scene-by-scene breakdown); Lynch CD-ROM news; and reviews of Dark City and The Hunted! "X-Files Extra": reviews of Stephen King and Wm. Gibson episodes of XF; book news; Golden Globe awards; and more!Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television ser...
2020
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(Dec. 1999) - Extensive review of Lynch's acclaimed new film The Straight Story! Also, Everett McGill talks about his work in Twin Peaks, Dune, and The Straight Story! Chris Isaak in concert! "X-Files Extra" reviews the season premiere and the XF/Millennium cross-over, and much more!Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. WIP regularly feat...
2015
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The acclaimed classic on the statistical analysis of baseball records in order to evaluate players and win more games.Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the sabermetric revolution by demonstrating that we were think...
2023
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A small town is in need of some help from a dragon who’s causing a whole lot of trouble. Dillion the knight, an outsider, comes to the rescue.. or does he? Get this wonderful bedtime story! A must-read.