Author Kara Zuaro has submitted a playlist for Largehearted Boy's "Book Notes" series. Her cookbook, I Like Food, Food Tastes Good: In the Kitchen with Your Favorite Bands, features recipes from "over 100 bands, including Belle & Sebastian, Ben Kweller, Death Cab for Cutie, the Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Franz Ferdinand, the Hold Steady, Interpol, the Mountain Goats, My Morning Jacket, NOFX, Okkervil River, Shonen Knife, Smoosh, They Might Be Giants, the Violent Femmes, and the Walkmen."
Kara Zuaro's "Book Notes" introduction: Writing a book can be lonely work, but I've never been more social than I was while collecting recipes from 100 bands for my cookbook, I Like Food, Food Tastes Good. I spent a few years chasing bands around after shows, hanging out at bars where band members worked, bribing publicists with baked goods, and stopping my favorite singers in crowds to say, "Hello, do you like to cook?" In retrospect, this seems like it would be a lot of fun, but it was a little nerve-wracking at the time. Really, I just like to hang out with my notebook and listen to music. These are some of the songs I listened to most as I was testing all the recipes in the book and writing introductions to each of them.
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