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Paris, Texas

The cinematography, the neon colors, the Mojave Desert, Harry Dean Stanton in cowboy boots, Ry Cooder’s slide guitar soundtrack. It’s poetry.

Just Kids by Patti Smith

I read this when I was in my early 20s and have revisited it at least once a year since. It sparked my love of poetry, art and creativity. It made me feel I was born in the wrong era. It brought me to NYC in the late 1960s and ‘70s and made me fall in love with a time and place I had never been. Her writing is just incredible.

The Good Life by The Bones of J.R. Jones

I always picture driving down a lonesome highway, dust kicking up all around me while listening to this song.

Please Wait to be Tasted (Lil' Deb's Oasis Cookbook)

This was the first cookbook I went through and used each recipe. The writing is poetic and amazing, “hot, sticky, juicy, moist fever dreams of flavor,” I mean come on! Lil Deb’s Oasis (the restaurant) just closed, but this will always be one of my favorite cookbooks!

Paris, Texas

The cinematography, the neon colors, the Mojave Desert, Harry Dean Stanton in cowboy boots, Ry Cooder’s slide guitar soundtrack. It’s poetry.

Just Kids by Patti Smith

I read this when I was in my early 20s and have revisited it at least once a year since. It sparked my love of poetry, art and creativity. It made me feel I was born in the wrong era. It brought me to NYC in the late 1960s and ‘70s and made me fall in love with a time and place I had never been. Her writing is just incredible.

The Good Life by The Bones of J.R. Jones

I always picture driving down a lonesome highway, dust kicking up all around me while listening to this song.

Please Wait to be Tasted (Lil' Deb's Oasis Cookbook)

This was the first cookbook I went through and used each recipe. The writing is poetic and amazing, “hot, sticky, juicy, moist fever dreams of flavor,” I mean come on! Lil Deb’s Oasis (the restaurant) just closed, but this will always be one of my favorite cookbooks!