From Vanity Fair, for a brainy model with a hot new cookbook, marriage to a literary superstar creates opportunities—and problems. Top Chef’s Padma Lakshmi now has an empire in the making, but Salman Rushdie won’t be part of it. A review of The Tenth Muse: My Life in Food by Judith Jones; No Reservations: Around the World On an Empty Stomach by Anthony Bourdain; and Mouth Wide Open: A Cook and His Appetite by John Thorne With Matt Lewis Thorne. A review of Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back by Ann Vileisis and Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat by Sarah Murray. [The latest issue of Bookforum includes a review of The Oxford Companion to Italian Food by Gillian Riley.] A review of To Cork or Not to Cork: Tradition, Romance, Science, And the Battle for the Wine Bottle by George M. Taber. In blindness veritas: Tasting wine blind isn't all it's cracked up to be. A review of Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter by Phoebe Damrosch.
