{"id":93682,"date":"2025-05-11T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93682\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:26:08","slug":"mary-roach-other-bay-area-writers-pick-the-summers-best-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/93682\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Roach other Bay Area writers pick the summer\u2019s best reads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Best known for her humorous and in-depth investigations into topics like spit and corpses, Roach recommends <strong>\u201cFood Person\u201d<\/strong> by Adam Roberts, host of the podcast \u201cThe Amateur Gourmet.\u201d The novel, which will be released this month, follows a weary cookbook ghostwriter navigating the puff-pastry egos of New York\u2019s food elite. \u201cI polished it off in a single sitting,\u201d said Roach, adding that the best place to read it is \u201cthe counter of any \u2018cheffy\u2019 new restaurant.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For something grittier, she suggests the essay collection <strong>\u201cA Real Emergency: Stories From the Ambulance\u201d <\/strong>by Joanna Sokol, a paramedic. \u201cEMTs know [that] half the story takes place before the ambulance pulls up to the ER,\u201d said Roach, who described the book, due in June,\u00a0 as \u201curgent, unflinching, and beautifully written.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best known for her humorous and in-depth investigations into topics like spit and corpses, Roach recommends \u201cFood Person\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,44100,77,44101,14299,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-93682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-bookstores","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-pro-tips","12":"tag-summer","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114491318895553665","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}