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Create your own cookbook McLellan fell down on the job of creating a cookbook a few years ago. Let’s resurrect it. Here are the ways to do it. (tags: cookbooks selfpublishing food)

Sunny spells Philip Roth for ‘pre-death pleasure’; Jilly Cooper for wicked escapism; Seamus Heaney for poems by the pool; or there’s a book about container shipping … writers and critics recommend the best holiday reads Saturday June 17, 2006The Guardian…

‘Sick blogs’ help afflicted share news, seek comfort McLellan also predicted this, in 1997. (tags: blogs health illnessnarratives) Literary Guide to the World – Salon.com Good reference for travel and books. (tags: travel books)

NPR : ‘Talk of the Nation’ Summer Reading List I’m a sucker for reading lists. The readers’ picks are odd, indeed. (tags: books) NPR : Swell Books for Summer Loafing More reading lists. (tags: books) NPR : Summer Pages for…

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT? / Knowing which foreign foodstuffs you’re allowed to bring back from your travels can save you a lot of heartache and hassle at the airport Great reference. Cannot believe you can bring back 80 bottles…

Bill Buford’s tantalizing book, Heat. By Sara

Nicaragua and Travels with a Moleskine Journal (tags: Moleskine travel art journals)

Orangette: I do, deviled eggs High-class deviled egg recipe. (tags: food) WSJ.com – San Miguel de Allende Info for a “someday” trip to San Miguel. (tags: travel Mexico)

June 6, 2006 The Spelling Bee: German Spoken Here (2 Letters) To the Editor: Re “For New Jersey 8th Grader, ‘Ursprache’ Means Fame” (news article, June 3): We have come a long way in internationalizing languages. The winner of this…

DWR Champagne Chair Contest 2005 Seriously clever: the entrants had to make a mini chair out of the cork, wire, and/or foil of not more than 2 champagne bottles. (tags: oddities design)