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Feb 4, 2007
Bürgerlicher Name
Jan Whitaker
Über meine Bibliothek
I like non-fiction best, with moderately high-brow mysteries thrown in for entertainment. Reginald Hill is, I think, a brilliant writer, but so are Donna Leon and Henning Mankell. Some of the books in my LibraryThing are currently in progress. Usually I read about 10 at a time. I also included old books that I've collected for research. I acquired quite a few for my book on department store history, Service and Style, and now I'm researching old restaurants, so that accounts for Eating Around San Francisco.
Über mich
Until about ten years ago I mainly read library books but now I buy them and they've started crowding me out of my house. But, come to think of it, a house is not really a home without books spilling out all over. I also write books, two so far. Right now I'm working on a social history of American restaurants. Who knew there were barbeque places in the 1760s?
Visit my restaurant history blog, Restaurant-ing through history -- http://victualling.wordpress.com
Ort
a quaint little valley in Massachusetts
Homepage
http://www.janwhitaker.net
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