#Michael Ruhlman

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NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES! (JUNE 4TH, 2024)

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HAVE I MISSED ANY NEW YOUNG ADULT RELEASES? HAVE YOU ADDED ANY OF THESE BOOKS TO YOUR TBR? LET ME KNOW!

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NEW STANDALONES/FIRST IN A SERIES:

Annie LeBlanc is Not Dead Yet by Molly Morris

Four Eids and a Funeral by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar

Heiress Takes All by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka

Moonstorm by Yoon Ha Lee

Wish You Weren't Here by Erin Baldwin

Two Sides to Every Murder by Danielle Valentine

One Killer Problem by Justine Pucella Winans

The Breakup Artists by Adriana Mather

Take All of Us by Natalie Leif

Louder Than Words by Ashley Woodfolk & Lexi Underwood

Tristan and Lancelot: A Tale of Two Knights by James Persichetti & L.S. Biehler (Illustrator)

Markless by C.G. Malburi

Furious by Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos

An Outbreak of Witchcraft by Deborah Noyes & Melissa Duffy (Contributor)

Storm: Dawn of a Goddess by Tiffany D. Jackson

Now, Conjurers by Freddie Kölsch

Looking for Smoke by K.A. Cobell

Lady of Steel and Straw by Erica Ivy Rodgers

Spilled Ink by Nadia Hashimi

If You Can't Take the Heat by Michael Ruhlman

Lockjaw by Matteo L. Cerilli

London on My Mind by Clara Alves & Nina Perrotta (Translator)

What's Murder Between Friends by Meg Gatland-Veness

NEW SEQUELS:

Past Present Future (Rowan & Neil #2) by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Happy reading!

[binsofchaos]

The Book of Cocktail Ratios | Michael Ruhlman

[angryisokay]

The Fat Kitchen by Andrea Chesman is a solid book.

It has an informative opening section summarizing the science of animal fats and their usage throughout history, a good explanation of how to render your own fats, a bunch of nice recipes, and plenty of little blurbs and side stories throughout.

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Young Adult Book Releases - June 2024

🦇 Good morning, my bookish bats. I hope you have a good book, hot cuppa, and sweet snack within reach! No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in June! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

🩷 June 4 🩷 ✨ Looking for Smoke - K. A. Cobell ✨ Moonstorm - Yoon Ha Lee ✨ Now, Conjurers - Freddie Kölsch ✨ Heiress Takes All - Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka ✨ Two Sides to Every Murder - Danielle Valentine ✨ Wish You Weren't Here - Erin Baldwin ✨ Four Eids and a Funeral - Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé & Adiba Jaigirdar ✨ Annie LeBlanc Is Not Dead Yet - Molly Morris ✨ Past Present Future - Rachel Lynn Solomon ✨ Storm: Dawn of a Goddess - Tiffany D. Jackson ✨ London on My Mind - Clara Alves ✨ The Breakup Artists - Adriana Mather ✨ One Killer Problem - Justine Pucella Winans ✨ Lockjaw - Matteo L. Cerilli ✨ If You Can't Take the Heat - Michael Ruhlman ✨ Louder Than Words - Ashley Woodfolk & Lexi Underwood

🩷 June 11 🩷 ✨ Six More Months of June - Daisy Garrison ✨ Hearts of Fire and Snow - David Bowles & Guadalupe Garcia McCall ✨ Love, Off the Record - Samantha Markum ✨ How to Get Over Your (Best Friend's) Ex - Kristi McManus ✨ The Ghost of Us - James L. Sutter ✨ There Is a Door in This Darkness - Kristin Cashore ✨ The Wilderness of Girls - Madeline Claire Franklin ✨ Dead Girls Talking - Megan Cooley Peterson ✨ Icon and Inferno - Marie Lu ✨ Furious - Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos ✨ The Color of a Lie - Kim Johnson

🩷 June 18 🩷 ✨ Bad Graces - Kyrie McCauley ✨ Old Palmetto Drive - S.E. Reed ✨ Masquerade of the Heart - Katy Rose Pool ✨ With Love, Miss Americanah - Jane Igharo ✨ Hearts That Cut - Kika Hatzopoulou ✨ The Calculation of You and Me - Serena Kaylor ✨ All Roads Lead to Rome - Sabrina Fedel

🩷 June 25 🩷 ✨ Markless - C.G. Malburi ✨ We Shall Be Monsters - Tara Sim ✨ Children of Anguish and Anarchy - Tomi Adeyemi ✨ Crashing into You - Rocky Callen ✨ Six of Sorrow - Amanda Linsmeier

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kellyclarksonshow: Hanging out with @ mgh_8 and @ johnbradleywest today on Kelly PLUS a cocktail demo from Michael Ruhlman and a huge surprise for one Iowa family!

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Ok, so Firefox’s pocket suggestions have been trying to get me to read a list of “8 life-changing nonfiction books selected by top authors” and while I don’t really feel like reading that article, I think it could make a cool prompt. Nonfiction tends to have a rep for being dry or trite, but I think it can be powerful and engaging as well. I probably don’t have near enough followers to be doing a book rec post, but whatev, I like talking about books, we’re doing this.

Prompt: List 5-8 Life-Changing Nonfiction Books

In no particular order:

1. The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS by Elizabeth Pisani (2008)

This is probably the book I’m most scared to go back and read, because I suspect parts of it did not age well. I think she’s released an updated edition and I’m interested in revisiting that one. That said, as someone raised in a very conservative environment, this book completely revolutionized my thinking on harm reduction strategies like needle exchanges and free condoms from the cOnDONinG bAd beHaViOr bullshit I believed when I was younger to “oh look, a way to keep people alive and healthy”. She also had some eye opening comments on the “rescuing women from developing nation brothels” charities that were so popular in the 90s. I still think about the insights in this book often.

2. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler (1993)

I don’t know if I can even describe how foundational this book was for me when I first read it in my early 20s. Kunstler describes the way cars have usurped human comfort in American architecture, land management, and city planning in meticulous detail. It made me look at my environment with new eyes, and appreciate alternatives I had barely even grasped, in spite of having traveled internationally. I don’t recall Kunstler’s book explicitly speaking to the disabled community’s concerns with anti-car rhetoric, which have gotten increasingly relevant over time. But I still highly recommend the book as an excellent introduction for USians interested in improving our lived environment and anyone else who wants to know What The Hell Happened With The US And Cars.

3. Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman (2009)

I’ve never been an intuitive cook: the kind of person who can look in the cupboard and throw together a dish based on what I can see. I actually started out baking almost exclusively, because the precision of baking recipes helped keep me from going astray. Ruhlman’s book was the first to help me crack the cooking code. Ironically, I’ve made very few of his recipes, which tend to have an overly fussy, professional chef ring to them. But learning about the basic ratios and techniques that went into popular western dishes helped me start to understand how cooking worked. It’s been 10 years since I read Ruhlman’s book, and I still often cook with a recipe. But sometimes I don’t. And his book is part of the reason why.

4. My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Nagata Kabi (2009)

I’m sure this one isn’t new to a tumblr audience, but it deserves its excellent reputation. This graphic memoir is hard to quantify accurately. It is, of course, an important work on the experience of being queer in Japan. But it’s also a searching, thoughtful, and sometimes brutal examination of the self, a coming of age story that is unsentimental but insightful and, I think, ultimately hopeful. I bought the book several years after it came out, at a time when I personally felt like a failure and a disappointment to my parents, and devoured it and felt less alone. Highly recommend to everyone, regardless of sexual orientation. (Note that it does at one point describe the author’s eating disorder.)

5. Too Much and Not the Mood by Durga Chew-Bose (2017)

This book revolutionized the way I thought about personal essays. This is not “I had a mildly risqué experience as a young white middle class cis woman which I will now recount to you for money.” Nor is it really my much-beloved genre of creative nonfiction that combines rapturous descriptions of the taste and scent of peaches with rigorously researched discursions on the history of the state of Georgia. No, this is a creative explosion, raining color and candy, flashing by your face too quickly to be fully registered but delightful all the same. Chew-Bose writes stream of consciousness, but one loaded with sharply observed images and quicksilver thoughts, tangents to tangents to tangents, some circling back and some not, personal memory and constant cascades of cultural commentary threading together into universal but deeply personal tapestries. If you have any taste at all for either essays or virtuoso writing you MUST read this book.

I think that’s a good stopping point for me. Curious to see if anyone else does this prompt and if so, what they pick.

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everyone should stop saying ratio in the twitter way and start saying ratio in the michael ruhlman way

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Opinion: Runny eggs are delicious. But in an era of bird flu, should they be off the menu?

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Opinion: Runny eggs are delicious. But in an era of bird flu, should they be off the menu?

Editor’s Note: Michael Ruhlman is a James Beard award-winning writer who has authored or co-authored more than 25 books — non-fiction, fiction and memoir — mostly on food and cooking. His books include “The Soul of a Chef,” and, most recently, “Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America.” The views expressed in this […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/n0VCO #BirdNews

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Come with us this July as we celebrate Finishing Line Press. Authors joining us: Deirdre Fagan, Ann Hood, Jacquelyn Mitchard and Michael Ruhlman, and more… http://abroadwritersconference.com/2024/02/11/come-join-us-on-a-cruise-into-the-ancient-worlds-of-legends-and-myths-on-july-15th-24th/ #writingcommunity #poetry #flp #fictionwriter #creativenonfiction #cooking #FoodieAdventure

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kitchen set

a kitchen is a good place to be, almost always the best place in the house

-Michael Ruhlman-

#interiordesign #furniture #homedecor #furnituredesign #kitchendesign #modern #design #kitchenset #cozy #vibes #wood #3dsmax #vray

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Michael Ruhlman's Rosemary-Brined, Buttermilk Fried Chicken Recipe Get ready to tantalize your taste buds with Michael Ruhlman's heavenly Rosemary-Brined, Buttermilk Fried Chicken. This recipe is guaranteed to make you the star of any dinner party.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Ruhlman's Twenty: 20 Techniques, 100 Recipes, a Cook's Manifesto Cookbook NEW/FA.

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Homemade Corned Beef

Homemade corned beef, and its corned beef seasoning mix, is crazy easy to make. It’s essentially brisket that’s given a makeover by letting it linger in an easy brine with spices and then slowly braised until falling-apart tender. Here’s how to make it (including a slow-cooker variation). Adapted from Michael Ruhlman | Charcuterie | W. W. Norton & Company, 2005 Homemade corned beef sort of…

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January 2024 Young Adult Releases

🦇 Good afternoon, my bookish bats. I hope you're bundled up with a fur baby, hot bev, and good book as you ward off this (lovely) chilly weather. No TBR is complete without a few young adult novels, and plenty were released in January! Here are a few YA releases to consider adding to your shelves.

January 2 ✨ A Fragile Enchantment - Allison Saft @allisonhsaft ✨ Dark Star Burning, Ash Falls White - Amélie Wen Zhao @ameliewenzhao ✨ Just Happy to Be Here - Naomi Kanakia @rhkanakia ✨ If You Can't Take the Heat - Michael Ruhlman @ruhlman ✨ Stay With My Heart - Tashie Bhuiyan @tashiebhuiyan ✨ Cupid's Revenge - Wibke Brueggemann @wibkebrueggemann ✨ Ghost Roast - Shawnee Gibbs @shawnee.gibbs and Shawnelle Gibbs @nelletheelle ✨ Okay, Cupid - Mason Deaver @mason_deaver ✨ Sky's End - Marc J Gregson @mjg_write

January 9 ✨ Somewhere in the Deep - Tanvi Berwah @tanviberwah ✨ The Atlas of Us - Kristin Dwyer @kristindwyer ✨ The Lost Ones - Lauren DeStefano @laurendestefanoauthor ✨ Arya Khanna's Bollywood Moment - Arushi Avachat @arushi.24 ✨ Dungeons and Drama - Kristy Boyce @kristylboyce ✨ Shut Up, This Is Serious - Carolina Ixta @carolinaixta ✨ Lunar New Year Love Story - Gene Luen Yang @geneluenyang ✨ We're Never Getting Home - Tracy Badua @tracybaduawrites

January 16 ✨ A Drop of Venom - Sajni Patel @sajnipatelbooks ✨ Most Ardently - Gabe Cole Novoa @thegabecole ✨ If I Promise You Wings - A.K. Small @aksmallwords ✨ Evergreen - Devin Greenlee @Dev.L.Lee ✨ So Let Them Burn - Kamilah Cole @wordsiren ✨ Beasts of War - Ayana Gray @ayanagray_ ✨ Sun Don't Shine - Crissa-Jean Chappell @crissachappell ✨ Escaping Mr. Rochester - L.L. McKinney @ll_mckinney

January 23 ✨ Destroy the Day - Brigid Kemmerer @brigidkemmerer ✨ My Fair Brady - Brian D. Kennedy @bdkennedybooks ✨ The Invocations - Krystal Sutherland @km_sutherland ✨ Into the Sunken City - Dinesh Thiru @dineshmt ✨ You're Breaking My Heart - Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich @olugbemisolarhudayperkovich ✨ The Getaway List - Emma Lord @dilemmalord ✨ Out of Our League: 16 Stories of Girls in Sports - Dahlia Adler @missdahlelama & Jennifer Iacopelli @jennifercarolyn ✨ The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee - Ellen Oh @elloecho ✨ Not Dead Enough - Tyffany D. Neiheiser @writer_tyffany

January 30 ✨ Just Say Yes - Goldy Moldavsky @goldywrites ✨ Red - Annie Cardi @anniecardi ✨ A Reckless Oath - Kaylie Smith @kaylsmoon ✨ Poemhood Our Black Revival - Anthology ✨ Wander in the Dark - Jumata Emill @brownboywriting ✨ The Dark Fable - Katherine Harbour @katharbour77

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mise en place

: a culinary process in which ingredients are prepared and organized (as in a restaurant kitchen) before cooking

Wash and chop vegetables the night before the party: Professionals call it mise en place; we call it making life easier.—Glamour

Mise en place is the religion of all good line cooks.—Anthony Bourdain

also  : the set of ingredients prepared using this process 

The class's combined mise en place would amount to thirty-six pounds of mirepoix, big bags of all the other minces, chops, and dices … —Michael Ruhlman

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RECIPE: Spaghetti with garlic, tomato, basil, and beurre tomate (from From Scratch by Michael Ruhlman)

This is one of my all-time favorite dishes in summer, when tomato and basil are abundant and I can also usually find really good garlic at the farmers’ market. Freshness is everything here, but the very concept of the sauce is also gratifying, and delicious. I’ve been making a version of this since I read about it in an obscure paperback cookbook in 1984. At the time, I hadn’t heard of fresh basil, so I used dry, assuming that’s what the recipe called for, and still it was good enough to make again. I moved to New York City in 1985, where I discovered fresh basil at my local bodega. Ah! Now I get it, I thought. This dish became a staple in my penurious city days.

Maybe fifteen years later, I began to notice that when I salted the tomatoes early, they released a lot of liquid. I knew there was a ton of flavor in that liquid, but how to get at it? It was the consistency of water, and you wouldn’t want to put water on your pasta. By then I’d learned about beurre blanc (whisking butter into white wine to make a sauce) and beurre monté, a restaurant term for melting butter while keeping it homogenous, by whipping it into a small  mount of water. I figured the same could be done with the tomato water, making what in effect is not a beurre blanc, but a beurre tomate. It worked like a dream. The tomato water emulsifies into the butter so that it all clings lovingly to the pasta. Combine it with the tried-and-true combination of garlic and basil and you have a sublime pasta dish.

This makes for a genuinely satisfying meal in itself, or a terrific “primo” dish before the main course, Italian-style. It is best cooked as you need it—it shouldn’t take longer than it takes a pot of water to boil and spaghetti to cook. But if you want, everything can be made ahead and combined quickly à la minute.

Make your own spaghetti, and this one is out of the park.

Serves 2 to 4

4 large ripe tomatoes, diced (if tomatoes are plentiful, use a mix of red and yellow)

1½ to 2 teaspoons kosher salt, plus more for the pasta water

1 cup/15 grams fresh basil chiffonade

12 ounces/340 grams spaghetti

6 tablespoons/90 grams unsalted butter

8 garlic cloves, minced

Put the tomatoes in a bowl and sprinkle the salt over them to encourage them to give up their water. Take a pinch of the basil chiffonade and mince it. Add it to the tomatoes and toss to combine. Set aside.

Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Cook the spaghetti until al dente.

Meanwhile, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook till it’s tender, then turn the heat to high. Working quickly, hold a basket strainer or colander over the pan with the garlic. Pour the tomatoes into the strainer so that the tomato water goes into the pan. Return the tomatoes to the bowl and set aside.

When the tomato water comes to a simmer, add the remaining 5 tablespoons/75 grams butter and swirl the pan continuously over the heat until it’s completely melted. Remove the pan from the heat.

When the pasta is done, drain it and toss it with the beurre tomate. Serve in pasta bowls, topped with the tomatoes and basil.

An indispensable new cookbook from James Beard Award-winning food writer Michael Ruhlman

From Scratch looks at 10 favorite meals, including roast chicken, the perfect omelet, and paella—and then, through 175 recipes, explores myriad alternate pathways that the kitchen invites. A delicious lasagna can be ready in about an hour, or you could turn it into a project: try making and adding some homemade sausage. Explore the limits of from-scratch cooking: make your own pasta, grow your own tomatoes, and make your own homemade mozzarella and ricotta. Ruhlman tells you how.

There are easy and more complex versions for most dishes, vegetarian options, side dishes, sub-dishes, and strategies for leftovers. Ruhlman reflects on the ways that cooking from scratch brings people together, how it can calm the nerves and focus the mind, and how it nourishes us, body and soul.

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