Daily Archives: Thursday, April 24, 2008

If you had the chance, would you punch chef Anthony Bourdain?

Posted by & filed under The politics of food.

Real chefs cook in groundnut (peanut) oil. Bubbly chef Rachael Ray – indeed her entire family – cook in olive oil. This alone makes me suspect her. She ducks and dives and doesn’t really answer the questiions, including the one above, in Time: “If you were stranded on an island but miraculously it had a… Read more »

Do cookbooks work?

Posted by & filed under Books & media.

I didn’t realise there was such a large difference between American cookbooks and European ones. According to Slate in its review of G, Americans don’t have scales so I presume they measure everything by volume. It doesn’t really matter as most cookbooks apparently don’t work, as Laura Shapiro says: “Cookbook writers are different from you… Read more »