…well perhaps things like our Encore search (and Google) do de-emphasize subject headings…but…the wonders subject headings can bring. Take gastronomy for example. A subject search on gastronomy brings back this fine…dare I say tasty…list for weekend reading:
- American Fried: Adventures of a Happy Eater by Calvin Trillin
- The Artful Eater: A Gourmet Investigates the Ingredients of Great Food by Edward Behr
- Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Food by Gary Paul Nabhan
- Eating in Eden: Food and American Utopias edited by Etta Mattan and Martha Finch
- The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food by Jennifer Lee
- Insatiable: Tales from a Life of Delicious Excess by Gael Greene
- The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand by Jim Harrison
…and that is but a smorgasbord of the thirty five titles on the list. I’m off to lunch.