Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Food

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Cooking, recipes, ingredients, restaurants and the culture and politics of what we eat. Read by cooks and by readers who take food seriously as a subject.

Books 14Experts 1Recommenders 12

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  1. The American Frugal HousewifeLydia Maria Child, 1829
  2. How to Cook EverythingMark Bittman, 1998
  3. SaltMark Kurlansky, 2002
  4. Modernist CuisineNathan Myhrvold, 2011
  5. The 4-Hour ChefTim Ferriss, 2012
The American Frugal HousewifeThe American Frugal Housewife
T4 The American Frugal Housewife
Lydia Maria Child · 1829
Open LibraryGoodreads

An 1829 household economy manual that treats thrift as a financial system.

Recommended by: Morgan Housel

How to Cook EverythingHow to Cook Everything
T4 How to Cook Everything
Mark Bittman · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Laura R Walker

SaltSalt
T4 Salt
Mark Kurlansky · 2002
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Sophie Bakalar

Modernist CuisineModernist Cuisine
T4 Modernist Cuisine
Nathan Myhrvold · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Science-inspired cooking techniques of modern gastronomy, across six volumes.

Recommended by: Bill Gates

The 4-Hour ChefThe 4-Hour Chef
T4 The 4-Hour Chef
Tim Ferriss · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Learning to cook as a route to learning any skill, with chefs' recipes and tricks.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss

Salt, Fat, Acid, HeatSalt, Fat, Acid, Heat
T4 Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
Samin Nosrat · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ben Silbermann

Be Ready When the Luck HappensBe Ready When the Luck Happens
T4 Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten · 2024
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson

A Year of Simple Family Food
T4 A Year of Simple Family Food
Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Goodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-Americ
T4 Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights and Every Day
Alexander Smalls, JJ Johnson, Veronica Chambers
Goodreads

Recommended by: Arianna Huffington

Shannon's Kitchen
T4 Shannon's Kitchen
Shannon Kelly White
Goodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

Sous Vide at Home
T4 Sous Vide at Home
Lisa Q. Fetterman
Goodreads

Recommended by: Garry Tan

The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey
T4 The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning: A Polar Journey
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

The Art of FermentationThe Art of Fermentation
T4 The Art of Fermentation
Sandor Ellix Katz
Goodreads

Recommended by: Nat Eliason

The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to CulThe Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
T4 The Flavor Bible: The Essential Guide to Culinary Creativity, Based on the Wisdom of America's Most Imaginative Chefs
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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