marginalia

thinking, fast and slow - daniel kahneman
l'etrange histoire de l'aquaponey ou comment les algorithmes nous bouffent le cerveau - romane maltnoy

kitchen confidential - anthony bourdain

a cult classic about the underbelly of new york restaurants

the devil in the kitchen: sex, pain, madness, and the making of a great chef - marco pierre white

a brutal memoir of obsession, ambition, and the price of becoming a world-class chef.

des choses cachees depuis la fondation du monde - rene girard

mimetic desire, rivalry, and scapegoating: a theory that, once you see it, you start finding everywhere

techgnosis: myth, magic, & mysticism in the age of information - erik davis

how technology inherits old dreams of transcendence, and how much mysticism survives beneath the language of progress

sexual personae, art and decadence from nefertiti to emily dickinson - camille paglia

passionate and dense writing, each sentence has a life of it's own and every paragraph is beautifully and coherently connected