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  • For her new cookbook, Olives and Oranges, chef Sara Jenkins found inspiration in the memories of her childhood, when she traveled across Italy, Spain, France, Lebanon and Cyprus. She has fashioned her cooking style around recollections from that childhood abroad.
  • First published in France in 1932, Ginette Mathiot's Je Sais Cuisiner, or I Know How to Cook, presents 1,400 recipes written with the novice cook in mind.
  • Sports fans and partygoers who enjoy Budweiser beer may not realize that their iconic King of Beers is no longer American. The story of how international firm InBev bought Anheuser-Busch is the subject of a new book.
  • Rafe Esquith has taught kids from some of the toughest neighborhoods in Los Angeles. His book, 'Teach Like Your Hair's On Fire,' outlines the methods he's found to be successful.
  • The former U.S. Attorney and longtime New Yorker staff writer has a new book about the nation's highest court. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court contains new information about the 2000 presidential election challenge.
  • The second report in a six-part series follows India's Ganges River south to Kanpur, where industrial pollution has tainted the water and sickened those living on its banks.
  • In his new work of "applied blunderology" Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean journalist and linguistics specialist Michael Erard categorizes blunders, investigates why we make them and serves up a generous amount of slips, malapropisms and even Bushisms.
  • In 2000, author Lou Ureneck left for a 10-day fishing trip to Alaska with his son in an attempt to repair their frayed relationship. The trip, captured in Backcast, helped Ureneck reflect on his parenting skills and on gaping holes in his own childhood.
  • Across America, wineries and tasting rooms can be found in converted buildings — a bordello in Arizona, a cotton gin in Texas, a church in Ohio. There's even a tasting room in an Alaska shopping center.
  • From free-flowing blogs to social networks and Wikipedia, creating legal regulations for behavior on the Web is a specialty evolving as rapidly as innovations on the Internet. A growing number of law schools are answering the call.
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