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- Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant: Book Review
If you are looking for a book to take on vacation, to the beach, or on a plane, you couldn't ask for a better one than Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. It's a compilation of essays and stories...
- Owf Quiet:wine Writers' Symposium
I'm away this coming week, attending the 2007 Wine Writers' Symposium at Meadowood. This year, I'm going on a fellowship, one of a few granted to wine writers who apply with samples of their writing; I applied with my Mosel and Vinovation...
- Book Review: United States Of Arugula
If you're like me, biographies and memoirs pepper your food and wine library, a mishmash of the lives of culinary luminaries. And if you're like me, you're waiting for some imagined block of spare time to read the ones you haven't yet...
- Salon Interviews Bunny Crumpacker
Salon has an interview with Bunny Crumpacker (her real name?) about her new book The Sex Life of Food. I'm sure the book isn't supposed to be an exhaustively researched academic tome, but this sentence caught my eye: [The apple is] just loaded...
- Wbw 7: Unusual Reds
When Andrew suggested "Unusual Red Varieties" as his Wine Blogging Wednesday theme, my pedantic streak kicked in about what he considered unusual. As I said in one comment, one person's unusual is another person's trite, something he hints at...
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Salon Interviews Ed
Salon has an interview with Ed, my editor at The Art of Eating. It's written by J.R. Norton, better known to food bloggers as CHOW's James Norton.
Because if Bon Appétit is the food media's Newsweek and Saveur is the Economist, then the Art of Eating is the New York Review of Books: sometimes impenetrable, often spellbinding, and never, ever reductive.
I had to laugh at this quote: "A reader not long ago wrote to me saying: 'You are the guy who had the courage to say all coffee in North America is over-roasted,' and I probably did say something nearly like that." I saw that letter, because the rest of it fumed about letting me write about Vinovation.
Go and read what Ed, one of our country's best food writers, has to say about the culinary world. Go and read what one of my role models says about his influences.
- Alone In The Kitchen With An Eggplant: Book Review
If you are looking for a book to take on vacation, to the beach, or on a plane, you couldn't ask for a better one than Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone. It's a compilation of essays and stories...
- Owf Quiet:wine Writers' Symposium
I'm away this coming week, attending the 2007 Wine Writers' Symposium at Meadowood. This year, I'm going on a fellowship, one of a few granted to wine writers who apply with samples of their writing; I applied with my Mosel and Vinovation...
- Book Review: United States Of Arugula
If you're like me, biographies and memoirs pepper your food and wine library, a mishmash of the lives of culinary luminaries. And if you're like me, you're waiting for some imagined block of spare time to read the ones you haven't yet...
- Salon Interviews Bunny Crumpacker
Salon has an interview with Bunny Crumpacker (her real name?) about her new book The Sex Life of Food. I'm sure the book isn't supposed to be an exhaustively researched academic tome, but this sentence caught my eye: [The apple is] just loaded...
- Wbw 7: Unusual Reds
When Andrew suggested "Unusual Red Varieties" as his Wine Blogging Wednesday theme, my pedantic streak kicked in about what he considered unusual. As I said in one comment, one person's unusual is another person's trite, something he hints at...