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Crystal Esquivel

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Crystal Esquivel has written and photographed for her blog, poco-cocoa.com, for years, has been featured in the Austin-American Statesman, Austin Monthly, and the Austin Chronicle, and has written for the Eat/Drink section of the A.V. Club Austin. She is the author of The Food Lover's Guide to Austin and the Austin Chef's Table. She lives and eats in Austin. ...more

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	Food Lovers' Guide to® Austin: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events (Food Lovers' Series) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austin Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes From The Texas Capital by Crystal Esquivel (Goodreads Author), Aimee Wenske (Photographer) 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Food Lovers' Guide to Austin: Best Local Specialties, Markets, Recipes, Restaurants & Events (Food Lovers' Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Austin Chef's Table 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Food Lovers' Guide To(r) Austin 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Austin Chef's Table: Extraordinary Recipes from the Texas Capital by Crystal Esquivel (Goodreads Author), Aimee Wenske (Photographer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Crystal rated a book liked it Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I guess technically I didn’t finish this since I skimmed most of it. Nothing groundbreaking for me in here.
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Crystal rated a book it was amazing Delight by J.B. Priestley	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I took my time with this one, reading an essay or two at night over a few months. I loved these small glimpses of delight from an otherwise curmudgeonly old writer in the 40s... it encourages me to continue collecting my own moments of delight!
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Crystal rated a book really liked it The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I can’t decide how much I liked this book… a lot? A little? It’s so simply written, from the point of view of a naive young woman who murders her husband and then describes how she got to that point. It’s spare and painful, and somehow not much happe ...more
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Crystal wants to read Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Crystal wants to read The Murder at World's End (Stockingham & Pike, #1) by Ross Montgomery (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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This was a random Libby pick that I ended up loving! It is so strange and surreal, affectless and uncomfortable, but with so much to say about masculinity, art, friendship, sex, higher education… it’s a sort of mundane, poetic look at the difficultie ...more
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