Please, get real. If you're not a nerd, don't call yourself one.

Nerd!

I'm Greta Johnson. I'm Tricia Bobita.

And this is the Nerd at podcast.

This week, Emma Christensen, author of the cookbook True Brews, stops by to teach us how to make our own beer, soda, mead. I don't really know what meat is, but she's going to teach us how to make it. You know what else is really cool about Emma Christensen, Tricia? What? Her last name is an S-E-N, which I always admire. Oh, you do love it. Yeah, it's an S-E-N-N-N-N-thing. I can't really explain it beyond that. Emma is also the recipe editor at The Kitchen with no E, because the internet is averse to ease at the ends of words. It's a part of the apartment therapy family of sites, and I have to say it's one that I've been pretty addicted to

for a long time. But first, I want to get back to something we talked about a couple weeks ago on

this show. We discussed a map we found on Business Insider that's a list of the most famous book

set in every state. It was a really interesting list. Some I felt better about than others.

You had a bone to pick with them about Alaska.

And I really tried not to be confrontational with them about it, because I get it. We all have

our favorites. As I guess we should all know, everyone takes pride in the state they come from.

So it turns out the list was fairly contentious.

I'd say the states that were most heavily contested were Washington, since we put Twilight as

the book of choice there.

Also, New Jersey was a big one since we decided to go with Juno Diaz's book, Drown,

instead of, for example, a work by Philip Roth, who is also, you know, he's from Jersey,

and many of his books are set in New Jersey. So a lot of people had some issues with those, too,

in particular. I was wondering if people from New Jersey responded by just paying Bruce and not

really understanding the context.

No, luckily nothing like that.

What are your criteria here?

They have to be set in the state, right?

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