Runs with knives!
Oh, Wendy & I adore Christopher Moore! He’s one funny writer, as nice as he can be in person, and writes enjoyably messed-up stories. YOU SUCK is a follow-up to BLOODSUCKING FIENDS that Mr. Moore has written at the request of his readers. I’m only…
A couple friends and I are working our way through House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. This is the predecessor of ONLY REVOLUTIONS, which I attempted to read a couple books back and failed to finish. House of Leaves is, itself, a difficult book,…
I was ready for a lighter book (both in terms of subject matter and overall weight!) after thoroughly enjoying House of Leaves, so I picked up ARTEMIS FOWL: THE LOST COLONY by Eoin Colfer and am enjoying it very much. Â Â These are fun books and…
I found ROASTING IN HELL’S KITCHEN: TEMPER TANTRUMS, F WORDS, AND THE PURSUIT OF PERFECTION while looking for HUMBLE PIE, also by Gordon Ramsay. I believe that the two books are very close if not identical, just named differently for different countries. Ramsay’s book seems like a…
In Letters to a Young Chef, Daniel Boulud, cookbook author, chef, and owner of Daniel, Café Boulud, and DB Bistro Moderne in New York City, briefly covers what he believes are the most important building blocks to becoming a great chef. I bought this book…
I am reading Andrew Todhunter’s A MEAL OBSERVED. It’s a magazine-length idea that he’s turned into an amusing little book, combining history and experience with a sheaf of helpful culinary notes. The book recounts their meal at Paris’s Taillevent, “a Michelin three-star restaurant considered by many critics…
I am reading THE SUPPER OF THE LAMB by Robert Farrar Capon. My friend Mary W suggested it to me, and I trust her taste in books so much that I ordered the book (and somehow ended up with two copies) sight-unseen. If the first…