Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, we're coming to you a couple days early! Spend time with us, and then spend time with your loved ones. Best of both worlds. This week, Annie and Chris talk about food books, cookbooks, and how feasting structures our lives. Also, bedbugs.

Featured this week:
+ The Comfort Food Diaries by Emily Nunn
+ Cooked by Michael Pollan
+ Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community by Wendell Berry
+ Voracious by Cara Nicoletti
+ A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg
+ Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
+ The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller
+ Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
+ Dough Knights and Dragons by Dee Leone
+ Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon
+ Bread and Wine by Shauna Niequist
+ Of Mess and Moxie by Jen Hatmaker

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