Better World Books<\/a>, touching a nostalgic chord with memories of many summers spent down the shore in Ocean City, New Jersey. The cookbook is much newer and covers the whole coast, but I am still having fun reading about the various chefs and restaurants. Not surprisingly, it focuse on summer food and as we head into February, I am dreaming of summer meals of crab chowder, sweet corn and tomatoes.<\/p>\nI haven’t read cookbooks this way before, from start to finish, complete with bookmark. I might read the description of a particular recipe or the introduction to a chapter, but I’m wondering what other treasures are on my shelf to pull off and read?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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The first one–Tequila Mockingbir<\/em><\/a>d–meets the LibraryThing<\/a> challenge of reading a book with a pun in the title. This whole book, subtitled Cocktails With a Literary Twist, is filled with punny names for cocktails from A Rum of One’s Own to The Lime of the Ancient Mariner. Each cocktail includes a snarky description of the book and how it connects to the cocktail.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/jerseyshore.jpg?resize=142%2C160&ssl=1\")
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