The internet has changed publishing for ever. even if you are addicted to paper and binding, you can now produce your book on demand with very little effort at all. Michael Ruhlman, whose Elements of Cooking was recently published in Australia, looks at some of the new models adopted with Alinea in chicago taking a… Read more »
Daily Archives: Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Peru for F–dies
I’d never thought of visiting Peru for anything other than Machu Picchu but have avoided it because I’m allergic to tourist swarms: Dare I say that Peru could become a F–die destination. As James Doran discovers in The Observer: “The real reason to visit Peru is the food. While more athletic types huff and puff… Read more »
On pubs and drunks
Where I grew up the beer was warm and the landlord cold. The beer was also flat and very bitter, in itself a control on binge drinking until I discovered lager. Journalists can’t resist boozy stories and the New York Times crawls around Oxford’s pubs (Cambridge’s are just as sordid) while Book Forum stumbles through… Read more »
The belly of the critic: super sized Michelin style
More fat food writers and critics. While writing his latest book The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner The Guardian’s Jay Rayner did what any self respecting food writer would do. He ate at Gordon Ramsay pretty much everywhere in the world he could. He even took more than a… Read more »
Curry Wallah out for an English
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video via Just Hungry You’ve gotta laugh.
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