Current reading
Oct. 18th, 2006 01:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunrabCurry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors by Lizzie Collingham - fascinating book. Only a few recipes; this is a history of Indian cooking, not a cookbook. Most interesting thing so far: tea. The British did not get the habit of drinking tea from India - it was the other way around, and not until the 20th century at that.
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress by Lawrence E. Harrison (Editor), Samuel P. Huntington (Editor) - economic sociology (despite the title that sounds like it's about ethics or something). The book assumes you know without explanation who Max Weber is, and that you understand terms like "marginal product of capital." If you don't, this won't be your idea of a good read. It does have some overlap in concepts with Omnivore's Dilemma, as it happens, since agricultural economic screw-ups are a theme that recurs in the book.
Also the New Yorker media issue.
And I finished revising my score; it should sound better in rehearsal this week now that there are dynamic markings on every part, and cues for some parts, and rehearsal letters...
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress by Lawrence E. Harrison (Editor), Samuel P. Huntington (Editor) - economic sociology (despite the title that sounds like it's about ethics or something). The book assumes you know without explanation who Max Weber is, and that you understand terms like "marginal product of capital." If you don't, this won't be your idea of a good read. It does have some overlap in concepts with Omnivore's Dilemma, as it happens, since agricultural economic screw-ups are a theme that recurs in the book.
Also the New Yorker media issue.
And I finished revising my score; it should sound better in rehearsal this week now that there are dynamic markings on every part, and cues for some parts, and rehearsal letters...
