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-10-year-old nephew.  (No clicking Owen, and thanks for the tip, Evan L!)

Read of the week: Break-in at Y-12, by Eric Schlosser.

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

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.)

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.

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

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

Photo by Phyllis Grant.