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Cookbooks We’re Reading: July 19, 2014

Cookbook recommendations? We’ve got ‘em. Here are the books from which our editors are drawing their kitchen inspiration this summer. (An interesting trend: almost all of the cookbooks below are heavy on Mediterranean flavors and styles.) Head to the market for some tomatoes, slice them thick, douse them with olive oil and read on.

One Photographer, 100 City Gardens

Rob Stephenson shot gardens and farms with a large-format camera (you know, the kind with the giant hood that goes over the shooter’s head). The result is a gorgeous book featuring urban agriculture in all five boroughs.

How to Use a Solar Cooker

From a National Geographic video to directions for building a backyard oven, these resources will help you make hay while the sun shines.

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What We’re Attending: July 5, 2014

Not only are our CSAs in full swing (only a week or so away from the Annual Zucchini Wallop), but our calendars are also packed—incredible eating-and-drinking events are popping up all over the city and beyond. Here, our editors give you a sampler of what they’re attending.

Why WD-50 Matters

When I read a couple of weeks ago that WD-50 was closing – possibly to move elsewhere, possibly not – due to the cannibalistic, devour-your-young realities of NY real estate, I froze for a second.