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Simultaneously celebrating and poking a little fun at our social media-obsessed culture, The Phone Eats First is an ode to how platforms like Instagram and TikTok have impacted what we eat. Best-selling author and food critic Allyson Reedy combed the internet to curate the absolute best 50 recipes, focusing on the same qualities she looks for when reviewing a restaurant: flavor, innovation, welcoming hospitality, and something that looks great on a plate, in a bowl, or, as in the case of some social media crazes, in a muffin tin.

The Phone Eats First Cookbook assembles the recipes from top food bloggers and influencers that keep popping up in your feed from new things to do with frozen fruit to specialties from across the globe that we ve never heard of and crazily effective cooking hacks like smashing burgers and making dumplings with rice paper. The 50 recipes, as contributed by the likes of Cooking with Lynja, Smitten Kitchen, and The Modern Nonna, cover breakfast, lunch, snacks/sides, dinner, dessert, and drinks, like @cooklikeimbook s Accordion Potatoes, @cucinaconruben s Cacio e Pepe pasta, @cookingwitd s Birria Tacos, and @kickassbaker s Dalgona Coffee Chocolate Cake. This cookbook isn t necessarily for influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers although they might get some ideas, too but for the everyday Instagrammer and/or TikToker who loves food and cooking, and likes to share what they re eating. You don t even need to be on Instagram or TikTok to enjoy this book. It s really for anyone who cooks and wants tasty new ideas; bonus points if it looks cute. Most recipes are accessible to average home cooks armed with a stovetop and an iPhone. This is for all of us everyday social media users, because we, too, can be content creators. (Blogger hat not included.) Just try not to eat these tantalizing dishes before first snapping a photo for the gram.

A beautiful retelling of The Great Gatsby from the perspective of an often forgotten, yet indispensable, character—Myrtle Wilson, Tom Buchanan's mistress. Perfect for fans of Julia and The Chosen and the Beautiful. It is 1922. Myrtle Wilson lives a lonely, desolate existence above her husband’s garage in the “valley of ashes” between New York and Long Island. All her dreams—and her marriage itself—are turning to dust until she crosses paths with Tom Buchanan on the subway. In one moment, Myrtle’s life is irrevocably changed. “You can’t live forever, you can’t live forever” becomes the mantra that galvanizes her decision to embark on a fateful affair with the wealthy stranger. She battles with herself and the forces that keep her boxed in, experimenting with what little power she has over the men in her life, her situation growing more dire in the frenetic days leading up to her death. Paralleling the events of The Great Gatsby—and in key scenes even masterfully weaving in original dialogue—Mrs. Wilson’s Affair provides a poignant look at how isolation and unfulfilled desire can shape our destiny and will transform how you read Fitzgerald’s classic novel.