What are you reading?

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Originally Posted by tailchaser

Hey, Chris... I like the look of the Crust & Crumb book... Learn any good techniques from it? Is it a proper "food science" book? We're prepping to ramp up amateur hour in the baking dept again. Off to a good start this year with a very crusty sourdough.

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If this book is a 10 for food science (technical down to chemistry models):

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...SH20_OU01_.jpg

Then Crust and Crumb is a mid pack 5-7, especially compared to Alton Brown's baking book that is slightly less technical. But more than makes up for in ease to understand.

I have not had a chance to try their Sourdough starter, it does call for some slightly harder to find ingredients. IIRC it calls for making raisin juice and feeding it with malt (wheat? or barley?).

I haven't finished it or tried any of their recipes, but that and Alton Brown's would be a good teaching book (Crust and Crumb is less than $10 on Amazon).

Chris

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Originally Posted by Billy Blaze

Playboy

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Who "reads" Playboy?

Only thing I read is the centerfold's bio to see how f^$%ing young they are!

Kidding of course. Playboy does have good articles.

GrassRootsMotorsports, Diesel Power, Road & Track all in various bathrooms. Just completed Thomas Sowell's Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy and I am waiting for Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.
Should be here in March.

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Originally Posted by smartmx5

Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto.
Should be here in March.

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This guy isn't Ron Paul crazy is he?

Chris

I've been working my way through the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, plus I have new subscriptions to Road & Track, Popular Mechanics, and Game Informer. I also go through the stack of gun magazines at work (all of us are gun nuts).

I love reading.

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Originally Posted by tailchaser

I found a complete set of the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee novels.

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Hah, he has the same initials as me :D

If you like minimal mental exercise try "Playing for Pizza". My kinda reading.

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Originally Posted by bnordin

If you like minimal mental exercise try "Playing for Pizza". My kinda reading.

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I read that one. Minimal mental is right! Disappointing for a Grisham novel to say the least.

An article by John Mauldin called While Rome Burns

LINKIE

AutoWeek, Bible, etc.

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Originally Posted by Miatamaniac92

This guy isn't Ron Paul crazy is he?

Chris

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No, LOL, Mark Levin is an expert in constitutional law. Taken from Mark's website where I COPIED it: Mark Levin is one of America’s preeminent conservative commentators and constitutional lawyers. He’s in great demand as a political and legal commentator, and has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs. Levin is also a contributing editor for National Review Online, and writes frequently for other publications. Levin has served as a top advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet - including as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of the United States. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in the private sector, heading up the prestigious Landmark Legal Foundation in Washington DC. I love to read political books. He is straight forward with his beliefs on how there should be limited government. He is pretty irate about the 'stimulus'.

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Originally Posted by smartmx5

No, LOL, Mark Levin is an expert in constitutional law. Taken from Mark's website where I COPIED it: Mark Levin is one of America’s preeminent conservative commentators and constitutional lawyers. He’s in great demand as a political and legal commentator, and has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs. Levin is also a contributing editor for National Review Online, and writes frequently for other publications. Levin has served as a top advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet - including as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of the United States. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in the private sector, heading up the prestigious Landmark Legal Foundation in Washington DC. I love to read political books. He is straight forward with his beliefs on how there should be limited government. He is pretty irate about the 'stimulus'.

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I bet. Thanks for the info, I might have to check him out.

Chris

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Originally Posted by smartmx5

No, LOL, Mark Levin is an expert in constitutional law. Taken from Mark's website where I COPIED it: Mark Levin is one of America’s preeminent conservative commentators and constitutional lawyers. He’s in great demand as a political and legal commentator, and has appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs. Levin is also a contributing editor for National Review Online, and writes frequently for other publications. Levin has served as a top advisor to several members of President Ronald Reagan’s Cabinet - including as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General of the United States. In 2001, the American Conservative Union named Levin the recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award. He currently practices law in the private sector, heading up the prestigious Landmark Legal Foundation in Washington DC. I love to read political books. He is straight forward with his beliefs on how there should be limited government. He is pretty irate about the 'stimulus'.

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I listen to Levin a lot, at first he took some getting used to. He just has no patience for liberals, I can tell you that. Sometimes he has great insight, and great analogies, very original...other times, he's just rambling or insulting without reason.

So, overall, I may still prefer Rush to listen to, but I agree with Levin probably more ideologically as he seems to favor libertarian ideals (though, not Ron Paul crazy or anarchy, or new world order conspiracy theories).

I am reading A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, and the Limbaugh Letter, and The Individualist, and drudgereport, fark, and ttac.com.