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If you think you’re a trivia expert, British TV men Lloyd (producer of the hit comedy shows Spitting Image and Black Adder) and Mitchinson (writer for Quite Interesting) may disabuse you of the notion that you’re a true scholar of random facts-and quickly. Their surprisingly lengthy tome is jam-packed with real answers to a number of less-than-burning questions-camels store fat, not water, in their humps; only five out of every 100,000 paper clips are used (more…)

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Kunz (former four-star chef of New York’s Lespinasse restaurant) and Kaminsky (New York Times food writer and author of The Moon Pulled Up an Acre of Bass) team up for a cookbook variation. Instead of arranging food by course or primary ingredient, they identify 14 basic tastes (salty, sweet, floral herbal, “funky,” meaty, etc.) then groups them into four categories: Tastes That Push, Tastes That Pull, Tastes That Punctuate and Taste Platforms. The resulting r (more…)

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In an era when fine dining meant having coffee with your meal, Terlato was working to get a wine bottle on every table. In this breezy memoir with recipes, Terlato recounts his path, growing up in 1930s Italian-American Brooklyn and working at his father’s liquor store, where he was drawn to the wines-an interest that led led him into distribution. While scouting Europe for wines marketable to Americans, rubbing elbows with top vintners and getting in on key t (more…)

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“Your nose, skin, ears, eyes and tongue are working all of the time,” notes Ziefert in this whimsical, if somewhat uneven, primer, “even when you are not paying attention to them.” Each sense gets its own brief chapter, kicked off with a few well-worn observations or factoids to help readers understand both how the senses work and how they fit into a grander scheme. A spread or two of mildly playful rhymed musings follow (“Worms are soft,/ beetles are hard./ C (more…)

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Starred Review. Cheaper than a crystal ball and twice as fun, this book by futurist and web creator Watson examines what “someday” could be like, based on the five key trends of ageing; power shift to the East; global connectivity; the “GRIN” technologies of Genetics, Robotics, Internet, and Nanotechnology; environmental concerns, and 50 less general but equally influential developments that will radically alter human life by the year 2050. Watson gently sco (more…)