The co-op bookstore for avid readers

Mi’sen ❣️ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.

Mi’sen ❣️ on X
User avatar

genially mad meditation autist • culinary romantic • internet flâneur • 📷 @phototwetes • 🧈 https://t.co/j1SWEqEk2o

5 books
Book Cover for: From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays, Edward W. Said

From Oslo to Iraq and the Road Map: Essays

Edward W. Said
Mi’sen ❣️Mi’sen ❣️

Can’t remember if I said this but Edward Behr’s ‘The Food and Wine of France’ is excellent and well worth reading for anyone into food, excellent collection of essays https://t.co/K6LR8HbpF5

Paperback, 2005

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots, John Thorne

Serious Pig: An American Cook in Search of His Roots

John Thorne
Mi’sen ❣️Mi’sen ❣️

TIL my copy of Serious Pig is signed by John & Matt Thorne, look at those 9s 🔥 https://t.co/1ZmEyBvQxM

Paperback, 2000

$34.99Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking, Bill Buford

Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

Bill Buford
Mi’sen ❣️Mi’sen ❣️

Also was excited to learn that Alain Chapel was an early proponent of natural wine, and asked Jules Chauvet to buy up wines from Lapierre and Overnoy. I’ve been trying to find more information about Chapel recently since reading about his obsessive nature in @bill_buford’s Dirt.

Paperback, 2021

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life, Jim Harrison

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life

Jim Harrison
Mi’sen ❣️Mi’sen ❣️

@mclegibilist @ryanpblk @jmduke @andy_matuschak @strnglft @sympatheticopp @simonsarris @add_hawk If you want audio, there is a very entertaining audio book of A Really Big Lunch (Jim Harrison), and the Bourdain books are read by Bourdain, also very entertaining

Paperback, 2018

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Ways of Seeing, John Berger

Ways of Seeing

John Berger
Mi’sen ❣️Mi’sen ❣️

TIL that along with Master and Commander, Fergus likes to give his cooks a copy of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing. Excellent. Thoroughly enjoyed it, still grateful for @_awbery_’s recommendation 👌🏻

Paperback, 1990

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book