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From the Bookshelf

The books we keep going back to, and the ones we keep lending out.

Overhead flatlay on a weathered wooden table: an open cookbook with photographs of a roasted chicken and tomato dish and a green salad at the center, a stack of three cloth-bound books in navy, cream and rust, a worn paperback with a cracked spine, a children's picture book with an illustrated tree, tortoiseshell reading glasses, a pencil, blank index cards, a mug of black coffee, a ripe peach, and a cream linen towel with a peach stripe.

Cookbooks with sauce on the pages, training books with cracked spines, the nutrition science we trust, and the picture books Riley asks for twice a night. Each note covers one book, or a small stack on one theme: what it's good for, who it's for, and where we disagree with it. We only write about books we've read all the way through and still own.

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Part 1
The book that set our table
The first entry in From the Bookshelf: the nutrition book we keep rereading, the four habits it's built on, where it shows up in our cookbook, and where we think it goes too far.
September 26, 2026 · 7 min read

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