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Seventeen Listener Suggestions, Reviewed

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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I Give Automatic Doors Four Stars

Penelope wrote to ask that I review spoonarisms, a form of wordplay named after the English Minister and Oxford Don William Spooner. In a spoonarism, sounds at the beginnings of words are swapped. Bu Wei Yang Zhao's 1945 book, How to Cook and Eat in Chinese, helped introduce many Chinese dishes to an American audience. Pot stickers are for me a solid 4.5 star food. Stock pickers of the investment banking variety, I'd give 2.5 stars.

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