Reading, Writing, and Sourdough

Four women work the night shift on an assembly line at a Japanese factory that makes take-out meals. Arriving and departing in a desolate warehouse district in darkness they work a refrigerated floor dishing cooked rice, laying slabs of pork, applying sauce, and stacking finished boxes. During daylight each of the women is burdened with indifferent husbands who womanize, gamble, ignore, or beat them, demanding, rebellious teenage children, and the thankless responsibility of caring for frail, aged in-laws. This is an image from the Internet so you get the drift.  https://foodsafety.suencs.com/?p=10531 Very early in the narrative (so no real spoiler here) the four women commit a terrible crime, but one that might also result in a great financial payoff. Out  is a mystery turned on its head. The question of who committed the crime is known immediately, leaving two questions still to be resolved. First, will the four friends get away with it. Second, and the greater ethical dilem

I recently purchased this book, Mastering Pizza , by Marc Vetri. The book is terrific. Making good pizza is not too hard, but making great pizza is difficult. It is hard to get enough heat inside a residential oven. My sourdough crust, following Vetri's recipe, was quite thin. It would have been crisp if I could have raised my oven temperature to the prescribed 700 - 800 degrees. Even with a pizza stone I couldn't radiate enough heat to make the crust really crisp before the top started burning. Still, check out this video and see if you don't start feeling a tiny bit hungrier.