Archive for the 'Books & Other Media' Category

Roll Tape

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

 All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”
- Dr. Carl Sagan, Scientist
Buenos Aires - For those of you not familiar with bit-torrents, don’t go searching to find out, they’re addictive little [...]

Happy New Stuff!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Buenos Aires - First off, a Happy New Year, or Happy Rosh Hashanah, or Shana Tova, in particular to any of my Jewish readers, friends, neighbors… though really, to everyone - today begins the year 5768, and we’ll just have to see what it has in store for SaltShaker, my life, and the lives of [...]

With Liver and Giblets for All

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

 The wickedly entertaining, hunger-inducing, behind-the-scenes story of the revolution in American food that has made exotic ingredients, celebrity chefs, rarefied cooking tools, and destination restaurants familiar aspects of our everyday lives.”
- back cover blurb from…
Buenos Aires - …The United States of Arugula, by David Kamp, catchy title, no? Wish I’d have thought of it first. [...]

Helices

Friday, August 10th, 2007

 It’s hard to say how far they walked. They were in the forest for nine months, eating snails and leaves and whatever they could get.”
- David Brandon
Buenos Aires - I’ve just finished reading through the famed The Whole Beats: nose to tail eating by Fergus Henderson, a fun little recipe book for the use of [...]

Coming Distractions

Saturday, August 4th, 2007

 Internet mailing lists are like Fox television shows. They have really cool previews, and they get you all excited about them, but they just don’t live up to their promises.”
- John Dobbin
Buenos Aires - I was just subjected to… well, no, I just subjected myself to… I mean, I didn’t have to say yes… watching [...]

New and Improved

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

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Food & Wine Dictionary
The dictionary is back, for those of you who’ve been asking - it’s finally been published in soft-cover version and is available from a print on demand publisher. Hopefully it’ll get picked up by some folks like Amazon and others… It is, as [...]

Hungry Planet Photos

Sunday, June 10th, 2007

There’s a book out, and has been for awhile now, called Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio. It’s a photo essay of families from around the world each seated around a table with a week’s worth of groceries. Time magazine has just published an online selection of fifteen of those photos along with [...]

Kindred Spirits

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

 We relish the opportunity of finding something new and different to eat wherever we go, whether it is part of an extended travel experience to a far destination or simply to a treasured friend’s table down the street. On The Road is our way of sharing the pleasure and adventure of food discovery through the [...]