
Today we are joined by executive editor of Sunset Magazine, Hugh Garvey. Hugh talks with us about his start in journalism, food writing, the politics of eating, and how he fell in love with recipes for their intimacy and happy endings.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
Books
- Stephen King
- Jeffrey Eugenides
- Rick Moody
- Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
- Salse di Pomodoro by Julia della Croce
- Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
- The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

- The Girls by Emma Cline
- Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
- Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
- The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen
- The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
- The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- J. D. Salinger by Kenneth Slawenski
- The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
- Running to the Edge by Matthew Futterman
- Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
- Christodora by Tim Murphy
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Chez Panisse Vegetables by Alice Waters
- The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Hazan
- Think Like a Chef by Tom Colicchio
- Michael Pollan
- The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
- Heat by Bill Buford
- Blood Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton
Everything Else
- Sunset Magazine
- Playboy
- Bon Appetit
- Conde Nast Traveler
- The Village Voice
- Asking the Stacks
- Jose Andres
- “Mario Batali Exits His Restaurants” (Julia Moskin, The New York Times)
- OTTO Enoteca e Pizzeria (New York, NY)
- Dr. Paul Farmer
- Strand Book Store (New York, NY)
- Chevalier’s Books
- The New York Times
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