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Normally just one mustache would make this car manly. This one has 100. Deal with it.

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From Slice

• Pizza Blimp: "the magical experience of blimp delivery [Car, Schmar]
• Yes, we've seen the pizza shirt [everyone and their brother]
• This is NOT Brooklyn pizza [SPJ]
• Congressman says pizza not vegetable, introduces SLICE Act [LAT]
• Pizza Patron's Spanish order deal has some folks mucho angry [USAT]
• In Pittsburgh, Vinnie's daughter regains Pizza Park building [Post-Gazette]
• How to eat pizza [Guardian]
• 30 Rockers prefer Chicago's pizza to NYC's [Grub Street]
• Flour + Water pizza box [Photos of Pizza Boxes]
• Richmond, Va.: Piccola's, Pizza Tonight, Papa's [Pamparius]
• Robert Sietsema apparently doesn't read Slice [VV]

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Why Calories Count, by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim

Arguably the most important nutrition book to be released this year, Why Calories Count is Nestle and Nesheim's take on the relationship between calories and weight. The authors do a wonderful job making nutrition science accessible, and the book may give you a few new ideas for how to approach weight loss and a healthy diet.

Culinary Intelligence, by Peter Kaminsky

This half-memoir, half-diet guide is friendly and easy to read. Rather than lecture or scold, Kaminsky provides simple tips gleaned from his journey of losing forty pounds. He is a food enthusiast, with no patience for bland diet food, making Culinary Intelligence a refreshing take on the weight-loss story.

Taste Buds and Molecules, by Francois Chartier

While Taste Buds and Molecules is a bit heavy to lug to the beach, it has tons of new recipe inspiration for planning your summer picnics. Its innovative design makes this book easy to read and Chartier's take on pairing foods and wines is truly something new.

Charlotte au Chocolat, by Charlotte Silver

Charlotte Silver grew up in her mother's restaurant, a high-end dining club near Harvard University. She recounts the ups and downs of childhood in the restaurant business in Charlotte au Chocolat, including plenty of mouthwatering dish descriptions.

An Extravagant Hunger, by Anne Zimmerman

M.F.K. Fisher remains one of the most influential and inspired food writers of all time, and this biography by Anne Zimmerman provides unique insight into her life and struggles. An Extravagant Hunger has it all: romance, despair, and of course, amazing food.

An Everlasting Meal, by Tamar Adler

Adler's take on cooking is relaxed and fluid—her recipes blend into anecdotes and experiences from her years as a cook. She takes much inspiration from the beautiful prose of M.F.K. Fisher, which is reflected in her personal and engaging writing style. An Everlasting Meal is lovely book for curling up under the sun and dreaming of new dishes.

On the Future of Food, by the Prince of Wales

This slight book is packed with a compelling case for revolutionizing our food system. If you're looking to brush up on your food facts but want an accessible pool-side read, On the Future of Food is a great beginner's guide to good food.

White Bread, by Aaron Bobrow-Strain

Bread is a staple of many countries' diets, and is a necessity in many American households. Aaron Bobrow-Strain takes us through the complicated and fascinating history of bread, both homemade and packaged, and how American culture has been reflected in the country's bread preferences over time.

French Kids Eat Everything, by Karen Le Billon

We often turn to the French as the gold standard of cuisine and food culture, and Karen Le Billon argues that French parents are also most adept at raising adventurous, un-picky eaters. Her memoir French Kids Eat Everything of transforming two fussy American tots into well-behaved and proper French children provides an interesting conversation starter.

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Sleep till you’re hungry. Eat till you’re sleepy.

y not jus doo both at saem tiem?

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Around about twenty years back, I had the privilege of being at a convention where Judith Merril was appearing, and I made sure to go to every panel she was on. There weren’t a lot (she wasn’t in the best of health at the time), but when she was there, she was amazing to watch and hear. The panel I remember best was the one in which one of the (much younger) panelists, in response to a question from the audience, spouted that old, well-known line about “if you want to send a message, use Western Union” and finished up with the assertion that “fiction isn’t the place to preach.”

Judith straightened up, fixed the panelist with a gimlet glare, and said, “Why not? What better place is there?”

There was a moment of stunned silence as both the audience and the panelists tried to absorb the fact that a major SF writer known for promoting higher literary standards in the field had just contradicted something that the rest of us had assumed was a fundamental writing principle that everybody agreed on. Everyone except Judith. She gave us a minute or so to recover, then proceeded to list a number of well-known novels that had obvious agendas of various sorts and that were either better for having them or that wouldn’t have existed without them. I wish I’d written the list down, but I was too busy grappling with her confident writing heresy to grab a pen.

That moment of silence when everyone tried – and failed – to come up with a solid, logical answer for the obvious question that no one else had asked made a big impression on me.  What it did not do was instantly convince me of the rightness of Ms. Merril’s position. (Nor the wrongness of it, either.)

I’ve thought about that experience, off and on, for years since. The result of all that thinking has brought me around to the same position I’m in on a lot of writing (and other sorts of) issues:  It Depends.

The interesting thing about the whole to-preach-or-not-to-preach question (aside from the fact that pretty much all the writing advice I see still takes the position that having an overt agenda is inherently a Bad Thing, full stop) is that it depends more on the writer and the writer’s attitude than on the story. Taking an overt moral, religious, or political stand in one’s fiction is something authors choose to do, or not do. It’s rarely something dictated by the necessities of storytelling.

Once you start actually looking at novels, you can find rather a lot of them that clearly have some moral, ethical, or political ax to grind…and that work, or don’t, on a variety of different levels. Some seem to work in spite of the author’s agenda; others seem to work because of it. Some make the agenda subservient to the story; others make the story obviously serve the agenda…and manage to work anyway.

There are, I think, two basic dangers in starting with an agenda. The first is a writing problem: does the author have the skill to pull this off? It’s trickier than it sounds, because the writer has to strike a readable and appealing balance between the needs of the point he/she wants to make and the requirements of storytelling. Passionate conviction is seldom an adequate substitute for writing skill. Yet the balancing act is possible; we still read Aesop’s fables, in spite of the blatantly obvious fact that every one of them is constructed to make a very specific point.

The second danger is that if the writer’s agenda is too obvious, most of the readers who disagree with it will dislike the book (or, more probably, never pick it up in the first place). There really isn’t much the writer can do about this except realize that it’s going to happen and brace for it. One can try to bury one’s moral, ethical, or political point so deeply that it won’t offend anyone, but that gets right back to the don’t-preach-in-fiction argument…and quite frequently allows readers to miss the whole point. And if you feel strongly enough about a moral, ethical, or political stance to want to write about it, you aren’t going to be happy with what you do if you try to pretend that you’re not really doing it.

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