Friday Round-up

What we're reading and eating this week:

Ridiculous Brown-butter Brownies.

Phoebe's hero, profiled in the Times Magazine.

I'm totally buying this for my soon-to-be-9-year-old nephew. (No clicking Owen, and thanks for the tip, Evan L!)

Read of the week: Break-in at Y-12.

This headline is astounding, and worth bringing up at the dinner table, whether you are raising daughters or not.

And these headlines are just plain hilarious.

You had me at hand-stitched binding, Short Stack! (I'm all over Lemons, written by Alison Roman, the Bon Appetit food editor behind some of my favorite recipes -- most recently this one.)

Mark Zuckerberg picks a winner for his Facebook book club.

I think a lifetime supply of these would make an excellent new baby gift. (It's amazing how often I've needed them in 13 years of birthdays.)

The trouble with food blogging. (My thoughts exactly, Amateur Gourmet.)

Made this last week, and got all nostalgic thinking about big-table Chinatown dinners in my twenties when the bill was never more than fifteen bucks.

How to Lose Weight in Four Easy Steps, via Joanna a few weeks ago, and still the best thing I've read all month.

The newest (or is that the oldest?) trend in cooking.

Hey, who's that handsome, decidedly un-trendy book editor?

Photo by Phyllis Grant.