Hey, everybody, welcome back to the old-fashioned on-purpose podcast. So today we are talking about books,

and it's no secret that I love to read. I have a pretty eclectic book list. Love nonfiction.

And I get a lot of questions about that. You guys know I love to read. You see my recommendations occasionally on Instagram and you're like, what are your top 10 books? What are your favorites? What are you reading right now? And I have this weird thing where I have like short-term memory loss. So if you come up to me in public and say, what are you reading right now? I will draw a complete blank and I can't even hardly tell you. I don't know. I just like can't remember. So that's not to say I don't have some great books on my shelf, but I thought today I would actually sit down, write it out, and then I can give you some decent concrete thoughts on this topic. So some of these are my all-time favorite books. Some of them are

just books that have stuck with me over the years. And they have shaped how I see the world,

how I think about food, how I think about ambition and belonging and womanhood and education

and all those things. And so these are the ones again and again, you know, even as recently as last week, I'm like

mentioned them in random conversation.

And so I think you'll find some of these interesting.

I know a lot of you have similar reading habits to me.

So let's dive in.

And I think this will be fun.

This is a no particular order.

And some of these are like super impactful.

And some of them are like just

just more of like an interest point for me that stuck with me so you're going to get the whole

mixed bag today okay so the first one that I love and I actually have it on my list to reread

is called the devil's element and totally random're kicking this off with just a really,

really random one. It's about phosphorus. And my friend Kate Kavanaugh, who is a wonderful

podcaster and just an incredible woman, she's the one who recommended it. And I devoured it.

And I have referenced it so many times since then. So I didn't know much about phosphorus before I read the book,

but it is an element that is really, really important,

like absolutely crucial to modern agriculture.

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