May 31 2008
Loyal readers might have noticed that I’ve been unusually quiet lately; at least with regard to personal things. There are a number of reasons for this, none the least of which is a decline in my interest in talking about myself on this blog. But it’s also because I’ve been pretty busy lately.
About a month […]
May 23 2008
When Martine and I went to Italy a couple of years ago, we ate modestly, but very well. Italy is the kind of place where you don’t have to go to the top floor to get a good meal. Since that trip, my favorite cookbook is “Saveur Cooks Authentic Italian,” a large and beautifully illustrated […]
May 22 2008
The idea of a cookbook about pizza seems a bit odd to me. After all, how much can you say? True, there is much to know about the dough, and a bit of history and cultural contextualization that can be made, but a whole book?
That’s what I was thinking when DK Publishing asked me if […]
May 21 2008
Acting on a reliable tip, I recently picked up a copy of Richard Yates’ classic novel from 1961, “Revolutionary Road.” The late Kurt Vonnegut Jr. said this book was “‘The Great Gatsby’ of my time.” Tennessee Williams said of it, “If more is needed to make a masterpiece in modern American fiction, I am sure […]
May 20 2008
Chef Masaharu Morimoto is known to most television night owls as the strong and silent, granite-faced Japanese Iron Chef on Iron Chef America. Whereas the other Iron Chef America chefs are well known Food Network alumnae, Morimoto was largely unknown to TV foodies when the show made its debut, with the exception of those who […]
May 19 2008
Although I haven’t written about food much lately, this blog is identified by various categorization schemes as a “food blog.” As such, I have gotten on the mailing lists of a number of book publishers and they have been offering me free food related books in the hope that I’ll review, or at least mention, […]
Mar 18 2008
(Postscript: I changed the title of this post from “Faith in the Unknowable” to “Chris Hedges on Atheism” to more accurately depict the topic of the post.)
Chris Hedges was on “The Hour” with George Stroumboulopoulos last night promoting his new book I Don’t Believe in Atheists. In the book, Hedges speaks against the rise […]
