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  • Simple Cooking

    by John Thorne ...
    "Incisive, hilarious and occasionally nostalgic, this volume will delight many readers, reminding them why they enjoy the pleasures of food and cooking."*James Beard Foundation Book Award-winning author John Thorne's classic first collection is filled with straightforward eating, home cooking, vigorous opinions, and the gracefully intelligent writing that makes him a cult favorite of people who ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Serious Pig

    An American Cook in Search of His Roots

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    In this collection of essays, John Thorne sets out to explore the origins of his identity as a cook, going "here" (the Maine coast, where he'd summered as a child and returned as an adult for a decade's sojourn), "there" (southern Louisiana, where he was captivated by Creole and Cajun cooking), and "everywhere" (where he provides a sympathetic reading of such national culinary icons as the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #1

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 1 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Sep. 1992) - Fire Walk With Me review; Twin Peaks second season; promo cards; calendar; magazine checklist, Part 1. NOTE: This is the 1st Edition version of Issue #1. A second printing (with additional material) was released in October 1993.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #75

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 75 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Sept. 2005) - Massive 64-page giant-size issue featuring all-new interviews with David Lynch, Mark Frost, Catherine Coulson, Bob Engels, and Mary Sweeney! Also: three Fire Walk With Me essays, a report on the 2005 Twin Peaks Festival, Mike Segretto's fascinating analysis "Welcome to the Dream Place" covering Lynch's films, news, and a detailed index of the material in the first 75 issues of WIP ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Baseball in the Garden of Eden

    The Secret History of the Early Game

    by John Thorn ...
    Think you know how the game of baseball began? Think again.Forget Abner Doubleday and Cooperstown. Forget Alexander Joy Cartwright and the New York Knickerbockers. Instead, meet Daniel Lucius Adams, William Rufus Wheaton, and Louis Fenn Wadsworth, each of whom has a stronger claim to baseball paternity than Doubleday or Cartwright.But did baseball even have a father—or did it just evolve from ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hidden Game of Baseball

    by John Thorn, Pete Palmer ...
    The acclaimed classic on the statistical analysis of baseball records in order to evaluate players and win more games.Long before Moneyball became a sensation or Nate Silver turned the knowledge he'd honed on baseball into electoral gold, John Thorn and Pete Palmer were using statistics to shake the foundations of the game. First published in 1984, The Hidden Game of Baseball ushered in the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pot on the Fire

    Further Exploits of a Renegade Cook

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    Pot on the Fire is the latest collection from "the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher" ( Connoisseur). As the title suggests, it celebrates-and, in classic Thorne style, ponders, probes, and scrutinizes-a lifelong engagement with the elements of cooking, and elemental cooking from cioppino to kedgeree. John Thorne's curiosity ranges ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Outlaw Cook

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    "For my mind and money, John Thorne is the best American food writer alive, and Outlaw Cook is the Physiology of Taste of our time." —Alton BrownIn essays ranging from his earliest cooking lessons in a cold-water walk-up apartment on New York's Lower East Side to opinions both admiring and acerbic on the food writers of the past ten years, John Thorne argues that to eat exactly what you want, you ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Mouth Wide Open

    A Cook and His Appetite

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    Ever since his first book, Simple Cooking, and its acclaimed successors, Outlaw Cook, Serious Pig, and Pot on the Fire, John Thorne has been hailed as one of the most provocative, passionate, and accessible food writers at work today. In Mouth Wide Open, his fifth collection, he has prepared a feast for the senses and intellect, charting a cook's journey from ingredient to dish in illuminating ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • How Baseball Happened

    Outrageous Lies Exposed! The True Story Revealed

    by Thomas W. Gilbert ...
    The untold story of baseball's nineteenth-century origins: "a delightful look at a young nation creating a pastime that was love from the first crack of the bat" (Paul Dickson, The Wall Street Journal).You may have heard that Abner Doubleday or Alexander Cartwright invented baseball. Neither did. You may have been told that a club called the Knickerbockers played the first baseball game in 1846. ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #2

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 2 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Dec. 1992) - Interview with film critic Joe Bob Briggs; a response to the critical reaction to FWWM; comprehensive Twin Peaks character relationship chart; Twin Peaks magazine checklist, part 2; reviews of TP books.Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of the works of David Lynch and other artists associated with the television series, Twin Peaks. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #71

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 71 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Sept. 2004) - The most extensive analysis ever of the character of Laura Palmer appears here in "The Realization of Laura Palmer," showing how Fire Walk With Me subtly alters the character from her presentation in the TV series. Also in this issue: a report on the 2004 Twin Peaks Festival attended by James Marshall, Jennifer Lynch, and others; a report on the Twin Peaks Marathon in Austin, Texas ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus