7/29/2025*: Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
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From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci co mes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen.
\nStanley Tucci grew up in an Italian American family that spent every night around the kitchen table. He shared the magic of those meals with us in The Tucci Cookbook and The Tucci Table\, and now he takes us beyond the savory recipes and into the compelling stories behind them. ​
\nTaste is a reflection on the intersection of food and life\, filled with anecdotes about his growing up in Westchest er\, New York\; preparing for and shooting the foodie films Big Night< /em> and Julie &\; Julia\; falling in love over dinner\; and t eaming up with his wife to create meals for a multitude of children. Each morsel of this gastronomic journey through good times and bad\, five-star meals and burned dishes\, is as heartfelt and delicious as the last.
\nWritten with Stanley's signature wry humor\, Taste is for fans of Bill Buford\, Gabrielle Hamilton\, and Ruth Reichl&mdash\;and anyone w ho knows the power of a home-cooked meal.
\n*This d ate is the fifth Tuesday of the month\, not the fourth as typically schedu led. \;
\n8/26/2025: The Kamogawa Food Detectives< /em> by Hisashi Kashiwai
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What&rsquo\;s the one dish you&rsquo\; d do anything to taste just one more time?
\nDown a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare\, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meal s. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . .
\nThe fath er-daughter duo are "food detectives". Through ingenious investigations\, they are able to recreate dishes from a person&rsquo\;s treasured memories &mdash\;dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and fut ure happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments\, creating a present full of possibility.
\nA bestseller in Japan\, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good com pany and the power of a delicious meal.
\n9/23/2025 : Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
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What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear c aught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago\, a nimals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put o n trial. These days\, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach dis covers\, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: t he curious science of human-wildlife conflict\, a discipline at the crossr oads of human behavior and wildlife biology.
\nRoach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators\, human-elephant conflict specialis ts\, bear managers\, and "danger tree" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever\, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass \, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. She taste-tests rat bait\, learns how to install a vulture effigy\, and gets mugged by a macaque.
\nCombining little-known forensic science and c onservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows\, langur imper sonators\, and trespassing squirrels\, Roach reveals as much about humanit y as about nature's lawbreakers. When it comes to "problem" wildlife\, she finds\, humans are more often the problem&mdash\;and the solution. Fascin ating\, witty\, and humane\, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate c oexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat.
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