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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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • 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

    $14.99 USD

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  • Mouth Wide Open

    A Cook and His Appetite

    by John Thorne, Matt Lewis Thorne ...
    "More than any book I've read, [ Mouth Wide Open ] illustrated the art and pleasure of cooking through bold and creative gestures in the kitchen." —David Takami, The Seattle TimesEver 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, pass... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

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  • 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

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

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  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #39

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 39 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Feb. 1999) - "Unseen Twin Peaks" compares the scripts with the televised versions for episodes 2016-2021! Also: the rare Twin Peaks board game from Japan; Fire Walk With Me promo material; Chris Isaak in concert; and TV round-up! "X-Files Extra" covers humor in XF and Anderson talk show appearances! And more!Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and critique of ... Read more

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  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #42

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 42 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Aug. 1999) - Samuel and Rebecca Umland examine Lost Highway in light of other film noir movies such as Kiss Me Deadly and Point Blank! Also: the Twin Peaks Japanese Georgia Coffee commercials; Chris Isaak and Eyes Wide Shut; Heather Graham in Austin Powers; and book reviews! "X-Files Extra": review of season six, and Chris Owens news!Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted ... Read more

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  • Wrapped In Plastic Magazine: Issue #34

    by Craig Miller, John Thorne, John Mitchell ...
    Series Book 34 - Wrapped In Plastic Magazine
    (Apr. 1998) - Finally, WIP takes an in-depth (13-page!) look at Fire Walk With Me! Plus: the "uncut" FWWM (including a scene-by-scene breakdown); Lynch CD-ROM news; and reviews of Dark City and The Hunted! "X-Files Extra": reviews of Stephen King and Wm. Gibson episodes of XF; book news; Golden Globe awards; and more!Wrapped in Plastic Magazine was a bi-monthly magazine devoted to analysis and ... Read more

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