From the Stacks: May 4, 2007

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Utne Reader's library is abuzz with a steady flow of 1,500 magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively dispatches from the cultural front that are rarely found at big-box bookstores, newsstands, or even online. So we share the highlights (and occasional lowlights) of what's landing in our library each week in 'From the Stacks.' Check in every Friday for the latest edition.

I'm not sure what I expected to encounter in The Wonder Bread Cookbook, a collection of fluffy white-bread creations published by Ten Speed Press, but I wound up enchanted by recipes for cr?pes, strudel, asparagus rolls, and other surprising Wonder-based snacks. (It doesn't hurt that the book's chic food photography makes you drool over unlikely concoctions like Wonder Beef Cups and Tropical Wonder Casserole.) The recipes are drawn from the Wonder archives and from nationwide submissions, and some of them are charmingly out-there: The Wonder Easter Egg Sandwich, which calls for butter, bread, and chocolate-covered, coconut candy eggs, is one sweet-toothed family's Easter tradition. There's also a fun little discussion of Wonder's history, recounting the company's successes -- sliced bread, anyone? -- and acknowledging a few misfires, like the Wonder Round sandwich bread that unfortunately never took off. -- Danielle Maestretti

The NACLA Report on the Americas is dedicated to unraveling the complex relationships at play throughout the Americas. The bimonthly magazine takes its eponymous acronym from the North American Congress on Latin America, a New York-based nonprofit that disseminates information on US-Latin American relations and social issues throughout the region. The latest issue (May/June) includes a multilayered analysis of American immigration, profiling the efforts of the for-profit prison system in the United States to cash in on immigrant detentions, as well as the myths and realities of immigrant day laborers, the lasting effects of last year's immigration protests, and the anti-immigration group, the Minutemen. The publication, now in its 40th year, is geared toward activists, scholars, policymakers, students, and journalists, and purports to be 'the most widely read English-language publication on Latin America.' It also earned an Utne Independent Press Award for Best International Coverage last year. -- Natalie Hudson

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