pairings to drool over

we pair foods and wines, so why not books?  especially when they end up coincidentally referencing one another (not all that surprising given the similar subject matter, but nonetheless fun!) one such combination then would have to be "bread and wine:  a love letter to life around the table" by shauna niequist with "thomas keller's bouchon bakery".  like i said:  drool.  (shauna uses great quotes to section her book.  two of my favorites, the first from winnie-the-pooh and the second from cs lewis.  " 'when you wake up in the morning, pooh,' said piglet at last, 'what's the first thing you say to yourself?' 'what's for breakfast?' said pooh.  'what do you say, piglet?' 'i say, i wonder what's going to happen exciting today?' said piglet.  pooh nodded thoughtfully.  'it's the same thing,' he said".--aa milne.  and "God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature.  that is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us.  we may think this rather crude and unspiritual.  God does not:  He invented eating.  He likes matter.  He invented it."--cs lewis. i could seriously work that into a deep and meaningful theology of breakfast, which i devoutly believe in.)  you can visit her blog at www.shaunaniequist.com.  she references thomas keller and i just happen to have his huge, heavy, brimming with deliciousness cookbook on my dining room table right now.  warning, if you look at bouchon bakery pictures (kudos to his photographer deborah jones) you will want to rush out and eat every french pastry in sight.  as i said to my friend, "does reading this book make me look fat?" incidentally, i copied down the recipes for both pain au chocolat and pain au raisin. www.bouchonbakery.com. yum.