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Sweet: Desserts from London's Ottolenghi [A Baking Book]
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Herb: A cook's companion
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Tartine Bread
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Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
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How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Completely Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition
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2 HN comments
The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More
Tony Gemignani
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2 HN comments
The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution: A Cookbook
Alice Waters , Patricia Curtan , et al.
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Made in India: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen
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The Food of Sichuan
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1 HN comments
Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
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Dinner: Changing the Game: A Cookbook
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Magnolia Table
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Under Pressure: Cooking Sous Vide (The Thomas Keller Library)
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The Moosewood Cookbook: 40th Anniversary Edition
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1 HN comments
dragontameronMar 20, 2019
But individuals still only have expertise in a narrow field. I'm not going to be reading Herb Sutter's blog for Java-programming news, or "The Old New Thing" (Windows-blog) for even Linux-ARM news. I read Herb Sutter for C++, Old New Thing for Windows-specific stuff.
To get more information from a wider variety of sources, you end up reading Newspapers. You learn to trust the editor, a non-expert but someone who tries to promise quality of their writers follows a certain code. Even within a newspaper, different editors handle different sections (the OpEd section of WashPo is less factual than other sections)
As long as you understand the trust model of various sites or newspapers, things are good. Some amateurs on "Seeking Alpha" or "Medium" are pretty darn good with their analysis, you just gotta learn their names and follow them specifically.
nekopaonMay 2, 2010
For example, I am embarking on an intensive self-study course, in a lot of different subjects. Instead of a thesis, I have given myself a bunch of objective, observable outcomes. These are 'things' that can be observed and/or measured objectively.
Due to the fact that I have a lot of varied subjects I want to learn/understand more about, I decided the best way to make my learning more efficient is to combine subjects as much as possible into these OO outcomes. Here are a couple of the outcomes I am working on, with the subjects that relate to them.
Herb Garden: Biology, chemistry(making own fertilisers etc) agriculture history, hydrology, genetics, molecular gastronomy, design and geometry
Risk-like game of different time eras: Military history, python, databases, data visualizations, dashboard design, social network design, math- probability and statistics, cartography skills, 2D artificial intelligence(bots), application of a few books on mil strategy: Art of War, Book of 5 Rings, Warfighting, and On War.
I am hoping that by having concrete things to build, it will force me not only to learn the subjects needed, but to really get a proper understanding of them.
I have taking this path because I realized recently that I have been starting to become a "Cargo-Cult Programmer". I can build software and get results, but not really understand why the results are what they are. I would like to change that.
Edit: typo