Michael Kuettner wrote:
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> I got nothing kitchen-related, but a whole bunch of books <drool>.


Similar here. We don't exchange gifts for Xmas, and we do avoid malls,
so "Xmas" presents usually involve things bought in October that will
help us avoid all retail outlets for the following 3 months. The
closest thing I got that's cooking or kitchen related is Claudia Rodin's
_Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, & Lebanon_.


I also got _Water for Elephants_, Sara Gruen
_Life Studies_, Susan Vreeland
a collection of Alice Munro short stories
and the first season of Ugly Betty on DVD.


The most interesting is turning out to be _New Sudden Fiction_ edited by
Shapard & Thomas, but that has to go back to the library.


--Lia