![]() ![]() ![]() Still, this month brought a colorful Indian street food extravaganza and the reissue of a book chronicling one man’s quest to create a bunch of truly wild veggie burgers. June is sort of a weird month, because it’s not really spring anymore, but it’s also not exactly full-throttle grilling time yet (especially if your backyard, like mine, is currently a smoky, dystopian nightmare) we aren’t yet in the balmy tomato paradise of August, and, at least here in Chicago, we seem to barely even be hitting peach season (my CSA this week included cherries, peas, red raspberries, and strawberries ). Now let’s cut the maudlin bullshit, smash two beers over our heads like “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, and get to the damn list of this month’s best cookbooks. On that note, with my ever-growing collection, I’m getting close to needing David Harbour’s massive, hall-length shelves (as well as his body and life). In that sense, they’re windows into the lives and homes of great cooks and writers whose work we enjoy, and that’s the kind of book I always feel like checking out (now that I’ve given up on Knausgaard). Cookbooks give us ideas for exciting dishes to eat and share, and show us the techniques needed to cook and plate them cookbooks not only expose us to new cuisines, but if you look beyond the food, they include cool tableware, FOMO-inducing photography, interesting bottles of wine, novel ways of entertaining and impressing friends, and, perhaps most importantly, ways of thinking and living that can inspire us to further hone our own vibes. ![]() To me, cookbooks are one of the keys to living a good life at home (the others being owning a Nintendo Switch and an espresso machine). Suffice it to say, the older I get, the more I simply love cookbooks. Lately, however, I spend my time trying to enjoy life, which entails a lot of cooking, entertaining, staying active, and taking in our world’s great cinema (aka browsing Maangchi cooking videos and rewatching Girls). This wasn’t always true-not back when I was still obsessed with reading ~*serious things*~ like critical theory, Raymond Carver (still love him though), and jazz musician biographies, and certainly not when I tried to read all of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle series (I failed have yet to succeed). No disrespect to Blood Meridian (RIP Cormac), but cookbooks are my favorite kind of book. This June, we flipped through wild veggie burger recipes, made some dank naan, cut down on food waste, and finally learned what to do with our honey (besides mainlining Hot Toddies). Because sometimes, your trip ends before the in-flight movie does, and you really don’t want to ask the pilot to circle the airport just so you can catch the finale.Welcome to Flavor Zone, a monthly column in which your kitchen-savvy VICE editors recommend the tastiest, juiciest, most appetizing new cookbooks on the shelves.Because sometimes, you fall asleep watching a mediocre rental, and would rather return it on time than pay two more bucks just to see the end.Because sometimes, your TiVo timer didn’t get it quite right, and cut off the crucial final minutes of something that won’t get shown again for six months.Because sometimes, you’re not interested in seeing that movie everyone’s talking about but are dying to know what the hubbub is about anyway.Because sometimes, you vaguely remember an old movie that had some sort of plot twist at the end of it, but can’t remember what it was.Because sometimes, the surprise “spoiler” ending is the only reason you’d pay $11 to see what is otherwise a turkey of a film.At the end, he opens a law firm inside Vanessa’s flower shop where he is consulting with a cow who is upset because humans use all of the cow’s cheese, milk, and other products. After some convincing, and a trip to Pasadena’s Rose Parade to get the only fresh flowers that are still around, Barry gets the bees to work again. The bees have so much honey that they stop working for the first time in history and stop polinating flowers resulting in flowers dying all over the world. He isn’t supposed to talk to humans but after Vanessa (Rene Zellweger) saves his life he talks to her.ĭuring his adventures outside of the hive he discovers humans consume honey (he finds Ray Liotta brand honey at a supermarket.) With the help of Vanessa he sues the major food companies that produce honey from bee hives and wins. Barry sneaks out of the hive with the bees that polinate flowers and sees the world. He and his friend Adam Flayman (Matthew Broderick) have to pick a job in the bee hive that they will have to do for the rest of their lives. Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry Benson a bee just graduating from college. ![]()
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