Holiday swellness: The booklist

December 13, 2010

To help you with your holiday shopping, Health & Swellness has 12 days of swell gift ideas for you. Today is Day 11!

For anyone who could use a chuckle. Something has to be really funny for me to laugh out loud, so the fact that Mike Birbiglia always has me laughing it up when he’s featured on This American Life and when I read his Secret Public Journal makes me super keen to read his new book. Sleepwalk with Me & Other Painfully True Stories by Mike Birbiglia, $27.99.

For anyone who loves food. The chapter where Bourdain describes the different foods he’s had all around the world had me in awe of his food writing skills (and made me antsy to travel). And overall, the book’s a must read for anyone who’s ever thought of getting into the restaurant industry. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and The People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain, $28.99.

For the home chef. Filled with more than 100 recipes, this book will teach you how to perfectly pair pasta shape with sauce. Now, this is geometry you’ll want to learn. Love the graphic black and white design, too. Geometry of Pasta by Jacob Kennedy and Caz Hildebrand, $29.95.

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Tags: books, Mike Birbiglia, reading