Inspirations

Science

Food

• Samin Nosrat [Flavor Master]
• Michael Pollan [Food Anthropologist]
• Deb Perlman [Home Cooking Champion]
• Anthony Bourdain [Resident fuckboy]

Books

Q: "Michael, if there was only one book I could ever read, what would you recommend?"
A: Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer
"Damn, ok cool. What if I have more time?"
A:

• Electrify, Saul Griffithn [ZERO-CARBON ENERGY NOW]
• The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon [Fantasy EPIC]
• The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow [A much-needed re-telling of human history]
• The Vital Question, Nick Lane [How did life begin?]
• This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein [Climate change is a result of capitalism because...]
• The Overstory, Richard Powers [We are all surrounded by trees.]
• Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake [Plug into the fungal network.]
• The Noma Guide to Fermantation, Ren&egrav Redzepi and David Zilber [Breakthroughs in flavor]
• On Earth, We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong [Heartwrenching]
• The Name of the Wind, Patrick Rothfuss[The best boy, being the best, but it's really great]
• The Lies of Locke Lamora, Scott Lynch[A bunch of boys who are also really great]
• How To Be An Antiracist, Ibram Kendi [Self-interest → Racist policy → racist ideas]
• Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, Frans De Waal [Probably not?]
• The Sellout, Paul Beatty [American satire]
• The Gene, Siddhartha Mukherjee [Heredity, evolution, eugenics, and more]
• Dark Money, Jane Mayer [The Koch Brothers are the worst]
• Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark [Math is good at modeling... coincidence?]
• The Dispossessed, Ursual Le Guin [Capitalism vs. socialism showdown]
• Ishmael, Daniel Quinn [Philosophy starter-pack]
• How to Change Your Mind, Michael Pollan [Opposite(ego)=spiritual]
• Island, Aldous Huxley [Western Science + Eastern Philosophy]
• Cuyahoga, Pete Beatty [A folk hero, in the flesh]
• The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander [Structural racism explained]
• Swamplandia!, Karren Russel [So weird, in Florida]
• Lanny, Max Porter [So weird, in England]
• There, There, Tommy Orange [Natives in California, now]