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Associated Press:
William Grimes, former restaurant reviewer for The New York Times, playfully uses a familiar phrase, "Eating Your Words," for the title of his new book. It's subtitled "2000 words to tease your taste buds."
"The vocabulary of food has exploded in recent years," Grimes writes, and France no longer enjoys a monopoly over the language of eating and cooking. So here is his primer of the new international language of food, including help with pronunciation.
An A-to-Z section takes readers from acorn squash and adobo to zuppa inglese and zwieback. These may sound familiar, but in between are the exotic regions of cherimoya and feijoada, nuoc cham and stifado, where a little help may be welcome in pinning down an exact definition. For absolute beginners, there are entries for chef, coffee and tea. Miscellaneous practical information includes cooking weights and measures, and food history is marshaled under sections for a food fads timeline and a fad diets timeline.

DJANGO by Michael Dregni
ISBN: 019516752X
$35.00
Publication date: November 2004

Publishers Weekly, September 6, 2004
"In this carefully researched biography, rich with details from interviews with family members, friends and musicians, Dregni, a writer for Vintage Guitar magazine, brigns legendary Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt into the spotlight....Dregni casts Django as a mercurial, charismatic Romany innocent, atlernately transfixed by dajo life and dismissive of it. Colorful descriptions of the nightclubs of jazz-age Paris and sensitive appraisals of Django's musicianship add to the book's appeal."

Liberty and Freedom: An American History by David Hackett Fischer
ISBN: 0195162536
$50
Publication date: November 2004

C-SPAN2's Book-TV
Carla Cohen, co-owner of Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, DC., recommends her fall title picks. Included in her recommendations is Liberty and Freedom: An American History by David Hackett Fischer. Also mentioned, Fischer's previous publication Paul Revere's Ride.

In Defense of Globalization by Jagdish Bhagwati
ISBN: 0195170253
$28.00
Publication date: March 2004

Jagdish Bhagwati, author of In Defense of Globalization, recently appeared on CNN's Paul Zahn now and CNN/fn's Louis Dobbs Tonight. Jagdish Bhagwati is a professor at Columbia University and senior fellow in International Economics at the Counsel on Foreign Relations.

Boardwalk of Dreams: Atlantic City and the Fate of Urban America by Bryant Simon
ISBN: 0195167538
$35.00
Publication date: August 2004

Bryant Simon will be interviewed for the Friday, September 17, 2004 edition of NPR/PRI's nationally syndicated Marketplace Morning Report.