<div>A memoir of a year spent working at a Brooklyn restaurant&mdash;and on a series of farms&mdash;to get the lowdown on organic, local, ethical cooking. Includes recipes! Food was always important to Melanie Rehak. She studied the experts on healthy nutrition, from Michael Pollan to Eric Schlosser to Wendell Berry, cooking, preparing, and sourcing what she thought were the best ingredients. So when her son turned out to be an impossible eater, dedicated to a diet of yogurt and peanut butter, she realized she needed to know more than just the basics of thoughtful eating&mdash;she needed to become a pro. Thus began a year-long quest to understand food: what we eat, how it&rsquo;s produced, how it&rsquo;s prepared, and what really matters when it comes to socially aware, environmentally friendly, and healthy eating. By working at Applewood, a locally sourced Brooklyn restaurant, and volunteering her time to farming, milking, cheese making, and fishing, she learned the ins-and-outs of how to shop, cook, and eat right&mdash;all while discovering some delicious recipes along the way. Wry, wise, and warm, Eating for Beginners is a delicious and informative journey into two of life&rsquo;s greatest and most complicated pleasures: food and motherhood.</div>

Eating for Beginners

<div>The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is &ldquo;a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing&rdquo; (The Seattle Times). An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky &ldquo;titian-haired&rdquo; sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930&mdash;and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women&rsquo;s libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers&rsquo; lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy&rsquo;s adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon? The brainchild of children&rsquo;s book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over her father&rsquo;s business empire as CEO. In this century-spanning, &ldquo;absorbing and delightful&rdquo; story, the author traces their roles&mdash;and Nancy&rsquo;s&mdash;in forging the modern American woman (The Wall Street Journal). &ldquo;It&rsquo;s truly fun to see behind the scenes of the girl sleuth&rsquo;s creation.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;As much a social history of the times as a book about the popular series . . . Those who followed the many adventures of Nancy Drew and her friends will be fascinated with the behind-the-scenes stories of just who Carolyn Keene really was.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal &ldquo;Sheds light on perhaps the most successful writing franchise of all time and also the cultural and historic changes through which it passed. Grab your flashlights, girls. The mystery of Carolyn Keene is about to begin.&rdquo; &mdash;Karen Joy Fowler</div>

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Eating for Beginners

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Girl Sleuth

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