I’m on Family Confidential
The latest episode of Annie Fox's podcast, Family Confidential, features me! [Sweetheart, eat your peas](http://blog.anniefox.com/2010/04/26/podcast-sweetheart-eat-your-peas/) It's a great interview, lots of laughs. Thanks, Annie!New stuff tonight at B&N
Hi, everyone. Don't forget to come see me tonight at 7:30pm at University Village Barnes & Noble (Seattle), where I'll be reading from a "lost" chapter and doing other previously unaired material. It's also the launch for my paperback, so you can pick up the book at paperback prices if you need a copy. Thanks!Book club guide
Has your book club read _Hungry Monkey?_ Why not? Is it because there's no reader's guide? Well, now there is: [Hungry Monkey reader's guide](http://www.hmhpr.com/releases/discuss/hungry-monkey-by-matthew-amster-burton/) I'd like to add a couple of questions: 1. In _Hungry Monkey,_ the author uses the word "awesome" a lot. What word or phrase do you overuse? Could you enlist a friend to punch you in the arm every time you say it? 2. Would you buy a special edition hardcover of Hungry Monkey, with page edges made ragged from being encrusted with drool from babies at the Houghton Mifflin nursery? How much you would pay for it? $100? Would this punch in the arm change your mind? 3. Since the publication of the book, Takeru Kobayashi has lost his hot ...Paperback is out
_Hungry Monkey_ is now out in paper from Mariner Books. I've updated all the links in the sidebar to point to the paperback. It's $15 or less. Someone you know probably had a baby in the last year, and babies love my book. The paperback is especially good for chewing and drooling on. It contains no new material, except for three pages in the front featuring all the nice things people said about the book since it came out. Thanks, everyone.Linda Sue Park loves Hungry Monkey
Linda Sue Park is the author of the Newbery-winning book [A Single Shard](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440418518/?tag=mamstesgrubshack) and the delicious picture book [Bee-Bim-Bop](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0547076711/?tag=mamstesgrubshack). And she's a _Hungry Monkey_ fan. Check out her blog: [What I'm Reading - Hungry Monkey](http://lsparkreader.livejournal.com/63382.html) > It's just delightful--funny, salient, and hunger-inducing, with more text than recipes, which is exactly what I like in a food book. Now, maybe she only likes my book because I mentioned her book in it, but in that case, why haven't I heard from Russell Hoban?110 years of books
My favorite bookstore? Apologies to all the others, but that's easy: [University Bookstore](http://ubookstore.com/) in Seattle. I know of no other place with such a perfect balance of comfort and selection, plus they sell art supplies and computers, two sections I can't keep myself out of. They also sold the hell out of _Hungry Monkey._ University Bookstore turned 110 this year, and to commemorate the birthday, they asked 110 of their favorite local authors to each write a 110-word story for an anthology, _110|110_. (I would have called it _12,100_, but whatever.) I contributed a story, which is a huge honor, because you may have noticed we have a lot of authors in the Northwest. Some of the other writers in the ...Sur la table appearance tomorrow is canceled
If anyone was planning to come see me on December 18 at Sur La Table in Bellevue, that appearance is CANCELED. Please don't show up! It'll be rescheduled in a month or two.Hungry Monkey in the Boston Globe
_Hungry Monkey_ is all over this article from yesterday's Boston Globe: [Kids' menus? Oh grow up!](http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/articles/2009/11/04/kids_menus_should_grow_up_to_be_as_interesting_as_their_parents/) And it features two recipes from the book. You rock, Boston Globe.BFW
The chapter "Picky-Picky" from _Hungry Monkey_ has been selected for [Best Food Writing 2009](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0738213691/?tag=mamstesgrubshack), which is available now. Makes a great gift. You know, after the first four times I was selected for Best Food Writing, I thought it might be a fluke, but now I'm convinced that I'm pretty good. This year's collection also features many of my friends, who are *really* good, including Francis Lam, Kim Severson, Molly Wizenberg, Bethany Jean Clement, and Steven Shaw.First German review
A couple of notes from Germany. First, the book has been renamed to [Kulinarische Abenteuer mit einem Kleinkind](http://www.amazon.de/Kulinarische-Abenteuer-mit-einem-Kleinkind/dp/3802536894/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1255368597&sr=8-2), which translates as "Culinary Adventures with a Small Child." The cover now features a photo by the excellent [Lara Ferroni](http://cookandeat.com/), who is currently writing a cookbook about doughnuts. Second, I got an enthusiastic review in Börsenblatt, a magazine for German booksellers: [Börsenblatt review](http://hungrymonkeybook.com/pdf/MX-2300N_20091009_091617.pdf) According to my friend Gunther Schmidl, they call the book a "three star cookbook and personal story at the same time." The included recipe, for frico (cheese wafers), is from the book. I haven't heard anything about doing a German book tour, but [I bet I can speak German](http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33632).-
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