The Brooklynites Here’s a love letter to My Favorite Borough. Turns out I’m not the only person who loves, loves, loves BROOKLYN! (tags: Brooklyn NewYork)

World Hum | Travel Books | World Hum’s Top 30 Travel Books At last, all the books listed in one go. Hooray. (tags: books travel)

Secret Ingredients: Spices, Flavorings, Produce at StarChefs Where to find hard-to-find stuff. (tags: cooking food ingredients)

Waterfalls Cafe :: Home As soon as I see the much-longed-for lights of Brooklyn, I plan to EAT HERE! (tags: food Brooklyn)

Remembering

Powell’s Books – Review-a-Day – A Dash of Daring: Carmel Snow and Her Life in Fashion, Art, and Letters by Penelope Rowlands, reviewed by The Atlantic Monthly This sounds escapist (tags: books)

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…