Flour, water, and a little fire are the only tools you'll need to make this air filled bread with Michel Nischan and William Ruble.

What to do after a divorce and rebound love affair leave you sobbing on the bathroom floor, praying to God for the very first time? If you’re writer Elizabeth Gilbert you get a book deal, and go to Italy to eat, India to meditate, and Bali to find love. The latest from Gilbert, a novelist, journalist, and short-story writer, is a memoir called Eat, Pray, Love, released this week. Divided into 108 sections––the same number of beads in a mala (Indian rosary)––Gilbert first documents her visit to Italy, where she gained 23 pounds seeking the world’s best pizza. Then she’s off to an Indian ashram where she turns away from bodily pleasures to meditate on her squirming mind. Finally, it’s on to Indonesia, where she rides a bike, meets a healer, and satisfies the “love” part of her book’s title.

Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, Lester Brown, has been saying for years that the global economy is being hobbled by man-made environmental trends: “shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms.” In his book, Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, Brown looks at the way the growth of the developing world will vastly accelerate these trends.

Many of the ancient pyramids of Egypt used to be plated in gold and polished white limestone to reflect and amplify the rays of the sun. Now a modern pyramid is being built in India covered in glittering solar panels that similarly pays tribute to the sun. The Singapore-based MSC Power Corp has designed its solar pyramid as a next-gen electricity plant that generates up to 36 megawatts – enough to power towns in rural India that currently have no access to the grid. It also has a desalination component that removes salt from seawater to make it potable.

Finally, one of President Bush's forays into foreign diplomacy seems to have yielded some actual fruit. The U.S. is set to lift a seventeen-year ban on Indian mangoes...