Friday Eating & Reading

. What I'm reading and eating this week:

Sunday night was grilled soy-glazed pork chops (above) from HTCE, and wow, they were as good as ever. We served them with grilled peaches (cooked in something similar to this) and a chopped, leaf-less salad. If everyone ate beans instead of beef.

I was cleaning out Abby's shelves the other day to give away old books to parents with younger kids when I came upon The Hundred Dresses. I sat down and read it cover to cover (not super impressive considering it's 1000 words long and easy enough for a second-grader) and decided it might be in the running for one of the most perfect childrens' books ever written. (I know this is not new to anyone who has read our kids' book coverage over the years.)

{Also in the things-I-just-can't-throw-away category: The world's most addictive memory game.}

I am digging this tiny house's tiny kitchen.

Marzipan Blondies (and more)

I've been wanting to make this slab pie forever. (Thanks for the reminder @sarahcarey1)

Oldie but Goodie: 15-minute Funnel Cake

Enough sweets! Catherine's "full board" grab-able solution to healthy weekend lunchin' and snackin'.

RIP American treasure, Judith Jones.

Read of the week: Being overweight in a culture that pretends it cares only about health, not size.

Listen of the week: The value of "deep work" in an age of distraction

Think of the week: A Republican senator's call to arms.

It's that time of the year! Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants in America List is out! How many have you been to?? (I can't wait to go here when I'm in Charleston later this summer.)

{My 13-year-old, however, who just returned from Colorado, would like you to know that Eureka is her top pick for families traveling to Boulder.}

According to this IG post, everyone at the New York Times Book Review is reading this, which is probably saying something.

LOCALS! I have two free tickets to a Random House Reader’s Circle Live event at Barnes & Noble’s Concept store in Eastchester on Thursday, August 10 with Oprah’s Book Club Summer Selection and Behold the Dreamers author Imbolo Mbue. Here are the details but to enter for a chance to win, comment anything below with the hashtag #behold.

If that beans-not-beef story is already a distant memory, these Miso-Tamari Burgers were A+++. (By the way: This month DALS readers get $30 off their first box from meal kit service/DALS partner Marley Spoon. Use code 30DINNERMS at checkout. Good until August 31, 2017)

Have a great weekend!

P.S. Good news! Details forthcoming, but arriving this fall: An audiobook version of Dinner: A Love Story.