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Welcome to the Reading Room, an occasional post linking to articles of interest. I've also included books I'm reading now and what's up next. Feel free to Share your Two Cents and tell me what you're reading!

Lady Gaga's parents are opening a restaurant on the Upper West Side:

Next Wednesday, in a modest space off Columbus Avenue, Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta plan to open Joanne Trattoria, an Italian restaurant with a well-stocked front bar, a cozy back patio and seating for about 70 people. The venture has been both bolstered and complicated by a simple fact: the Germanottas' daughter Stefani, better known as Lady Gaga, is perhaps the most famous woman in the world.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/lady-gagas-parents-to-open-joanne-trattoria.html?ref=dining

Matt Abramcyk, who is set to open his newest restaurant, Super Linda, a Latin Grill in Tribeca, is profiled in the Times this week. You may know him from his other ventures, Warren 77, Tiny's and Smith & Mills, in addition to now-shuttered The Beatrice Inn.  Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/dining/matt-abramcyk-opens-super-linda-in-tribeca.html?ref=dining

Frank Bruni on Paula Dean's Diabetes and Food Responsibility:

Last week Paula Deen copped. The woman whose best-known burger recipe uses glazed doughnuts in place of a bun announced that she has diabetes. It would have been refreshing if the circumstances hadn't been so self-serving: she was plugging her son Bobby's new Cooking Channel show, "Not My Mama's Meals," which is devoted to lower-calorie recipes. And she had recently signed on as a paid pitchwoman for a diabetes drug.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/opinion/sunday/bruni-paula-deens-revelation.html?scp=1&sq=bruni%20paula%20dean&st=cse

What I'm reading now:

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie

What's next:

Ten Thousand Saints, by Eleanor Henderson

And you?

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