Stuff about books or articles I’ve read, shows or movies I’ve watched – usually food or wine related, but not always.
Those of you who’ve been reading my posts for awhile might remember my critique of The China Study a couple of years back. Keeping in mind that my criticism was directed mostly at the book, not at the concepts it presented, I try to keep an open mind. In fact, here at home, the majority… Read More No Fat Vegans
Did I like the book, did I not like the book? That’s the question. And I have mixed feelings about it. The book – the latest chef bio to hit the shelves, came with, as most of them do, a ton of hype, that follows on the opening of chef Marcus Samuelsson’s latest restaurant, Red… Read More Mmmm… No, Chef
About a year and a half ago I was contacted by the Tom McNamee, author of the newly released biography of Craig Claiborne, The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat. He’d stumbled across a post or two, here and there, from an interview I’d done with Craig many, many moons ago, and wondered if… Read More Craig. The Book.
Bagel, Oysters, Pizza. Kind of the new acronym for what to eat when hitting the ground in New York, at least within the first few hours. Uneventful flight, all the warnings about how bad United is to fly simply were’t true – the attendants were great, the seats were as comfortable or un, as any… Read More B.O.P.
For those of you who like your vegetables, if you haven’t discovered London’s star chef Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes floating around the ‘net, it’s about time you do. For awhile, from December of 2008 on, he wrote a column for The Guardian, called “The New Vegetarian“, and some of the recipes that appeared each week were… Read More Yo Yo, Yotam
Rama Tours launches new Buenos Aires food tours for iPhone/iPad including two of mine – San Telmo & Recoleta! Android version coming soon…. [Edit: They went out of business about a year later, never did pay me…..]
Nice little interview over on the FriendsEat community website! Read all about it….
“With my griddle of justice, I BASH the enemy in the head, or I burn them like so! I also have some truth syrup, which is low in fat.” – The Waffler, Mystery Men (1999) Adrian E. Miller is an ex-politico and lawyer turned food historian who has a forthcoming book on the history of… Read More Food News a la Plancha