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From the Stacks: March 23, 2006

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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.

HungoverGourmetAnyone who's a fan of food writing should be reading the Hungover Gourmet, a Baltimore-based zine dedicated to full-flavored tales of 'food, drink, travel, and fun.' The new issue (#10) includes a lengthy guide to chicharron (fried pork skin) offerings in Long Beach, California. Although the pork rinds are entirely unappealing to me, it's gratifying to see hardcore foodie language applied to this oft-maligned snack food. Of one pork-apple sausage-flavored brand, the reviewer writes: 'Rich and well-rounded, these may be a little too fancy (or 'fruity') for your everyday rind-eater, but are still a welcome variation on the classic treatment.' In issue #9, a former employee chronicled the demise of B's Barbecue & Diner in Orlando, Florida. It 'represented part of a vanishing breed,' he writes. 'Where can you go nowadays for Easter breakfast and get served by a waitress with tequila breath?' Each issue of the Hungover Gourmet also includes recipes and bite-size restaurant reviews submitted by readers far and wide. -- Danielle Maestretti

HungoverGourmetIn Good Tilth is a small newsprint magazine with grand ambitions. Published by the nonprofit group Oregon Tilth, the publication promotes organic and sustainable agriculture through informative research and analysis of the latest news and ideas, from the soil front to the store front. Amid the local charm lacing each issue are potentially world-changing ideas. In the latest issue (March/April), Susan Clark offers a 'radical re-thinking of social and economic values,' including remaking local governance into accessible units that would oversee communal planning of sustainable land use. For Spanish readers, the paper also features art?culos en Espa?ol. -- Natalie Hudson

GreenAnarcyGreen Anarchy wants to rattle your skull and shake the foundations of what you hold true. Arguing for opting-out of cities, capitalism, domestication, technology, and virtually every modern device known to man, Green Anarchy presents theory and action with eloquent conviction. The collection of intense writing and often disturbing imagery might leave you questioning, as Jesse Cross-Nickerson does, 'Can we imagine a world that is not divided between a poor global south and a wealthy north?' If you're unfamiliar with the theories of 'primitivism' and 'anti-civilization,' return to the magazine's earlier issues, which explain the ideas in detail. -- Natalie Hudson

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