The Long List
November 24, 2009

I Know How to Cook

Phaidon adds a impressive French tome to their big fat cookbook series. What The Silver Spoon is to the home cooks of Italy, I Know How to Cook -- a bestseller since its first publication in 1932 -- is to the home cooks of France. More than 1,400 recipes on nearly 1,000 pages

Daybook

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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