{"id":697,"date":"2009-04-04T14:31:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-04-04T14:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T14:31:48","slug":"library-sale-not-a-good-harvest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/04\/library-sale-not-a-good-harvest\/","title":{"rendered":"Library sale &#8211; not a good harvest :-("},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a library sale at the San Leandro Public Library this morning, and I can&#8217;t believe how badly I fared cookbook wise.  There were barely any good cookbooks, and pretty much nothing ethnic\/international.  What I ended up buying was:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"China Moon Cookbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/chinamoon.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=134><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0894807544?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0894807544\">China Moon Cookbook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0894807544\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nModern Chinese cuisine from a now-defunct San Francisco restaurant<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0961021802?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0961021802\">Ghirardelli Original Chocolate Cookbook<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0961021802\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sanleandrobytes.com\/archives\/001857.html\">Ghirardelli Factori Store<\/a> is close to our home and we shop there all the time.  I&#8217;ve seen this cookbook there and have been tempted to buy it &#8211; now I got it for less than $1 \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"feastscot.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/feastscot.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"111\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=111><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0316923486?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0316923486\">A Feast of Scotland<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0316923486\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nI hesitated in buying this cookbook as it&#8217;ll be many years before I get to the &#8220;S&#8221; cuisines, but you never know when I&#8217;ll want to celebrate some Scottish festival.<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\"><br \/>\nand a non-cookbook<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"trillin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/food\/blog\/trillin.jpg\" width=\"93\" height=\"140\" align=left><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/dot.gif\" align=left width=11 height=140><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0375508082?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=marga-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0375508082\">Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=marga-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0375508082\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not particularly big on food writing, but I thought I&#8217;d give this one a try, specially as it could give me ideas of dishes to try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a library sale at the San Leandro Public Library this morning, and I can&#8217;t believe how badly I fared cookbook wise. There were barely any good cookbooks, and pretty much nothing ethnic\/international. What I ended up buying was: China Moon Cookbook Modern Chinese cuisine from a now-defunct San Francisco restaurant Ghirardelli Original Chocolate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookbooks","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}