Project Foodie is doing a straw poll of the Beard Award cookbook finalists. Friend-of-the-blog Martha Foose is up for the American Cooking award, for her fine book on Mississippi Delta cookery, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea: Recipes and Tales from a Southern Cook.
Vote early! Vote often!

What a shame that people who are so out of touch are responsible for the interpretation of our laws at the highest level.
Is this comment in the right thread, Dirk?
If so, I’m puzzled!
I think Dirk’s talking about Scalia, in which case, Amen.