Reading Around
4.21.10 Hey Vegans. It’s ok to eat oysters sez Christopher Cox on slate.They r mostly farm-raised, sustainable & have no central nervous system
4.20.10 Penguin Australia pulps press run of "Pasta Bible" cuz recipe calls 4 salt& freshly ground black people sted of pepper. http://bit.ly/bih91D
4.7.10 So shocked to read in NYPost’s pg 6 that Pamela Fiori is out at Town&Country. For so many years Pam WAS Town & Country.
4.7.10 So happy to see Missy Robbins in Food&Wine’s Best New Chef in America 2010. Also Mike Sheerin, Blackbird in Chicago.Loved my lunch there
3.2.10 France has its first Grilling school.CCN Newsletter sez the Weber Grill Academy in Paris will teach BBQ under lead of a French exec chef
2.16.10 I want to eat Saveur’s cover. In fact I did & wrote about it in the March issue.Sublime squash blossom pizza f/Mozza Pizzeria. LA EATS issue
2.13.10 Nation’s Restaurant News reports Cocktail "OMAKASE:"bartenders like you to let them "freestyle riff" on your drink w/new flavors, textures.
2.12.10 3787 couples reserved Valentine’s Day dinner @White Castle last yr. 22 came in a group date, Nation’s Rest News reports. Weddings too.
2.5.10 Reading Cindy Adams on beautiful women of a certain age in Gstaad: "Gstaad is really Swiss for Botox." Faces frozen in the mountain air.
12.26.09 More Nation’s Restaurant News: KentuckyFC offers 395 calorie meal for $3.95:grilled chicken thigh&leg,green beans,mashed potatoes&gravy. A penny a calorie
12.26.09 Just read NYMag rob/robin’s soup picks. I’d add Shun Lee’s hotnsour. Anything from JeanGeo $28 backroom lunch. Brooklyn Diner chicken soup.
12.4.09 Reading the New Yorker food issue. Brilliant flavor piece. Got stopped by Ad for new belly button kidney donation. Not quite dessert.
11.15.09 A shoutout 4 Saveur magazine,up 12 per cent in ad revenue in this cruel year for magazines & up in newstand sales too. Great turkey cover.
11.3.09 For those so young and untutored not to know Craig Claiborne or Joe Baum’s role in how we eat now. Grimes "Appetite City" is your text.
9.30.09 Picked up Pasta Sfoglia by Ron&Colleen Suhanosky. Making me hungry & hungry to cook. Has tomato-strawberry pasta I loved on lst visit in’06
9.18.09 Who could have imagined a time when Oprah’s pick would be bigger than a Pulitzer "Say You’re One of them" by Uwen Akpan.The glow is blinding.
8.27.09 Susan King describes with Aussie bite our transporting lunch at Jean Georges in Australia’s The Age. http://bit.ly/48xgWe
8.27.09 So shocked to see the NEWS has fired Restaurant Girl. I was shocked when they hired her, but she’s done a good job for them.
8.6.09 Consumer advocacy group sues Denny’s in new campaign against irresponsible use of salt, Nation’s Restaurant News reports
8.6.09 I don’t hate vegans, certinly don’t think they’re contagious. I just can’t get cuddly w/the concept. Bravo’s Master Chefs cooking vegan. Wow.
8.4.09 I think it’s enough to be an ethical restaurant critic. I’m not sure I have the heart to be an ethical eater 2 as NYMag proposes this week
8.4.09 Just saw photo of Frank Bruni on Grub Street? Would you trade in your clunker and buy a new car from this man?
8.3.09 Corn-cheddar-bacon pancakes,burger inside a donut.I look at the photos on www.thisiswhyyourefat.com & I’m not hungry anymore. Great diet
7.17.09 “The End of Overeating:Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite” by Kessler. Let me say it again: FAT CHANCE
7.17.09 "Eating is just a process" sez socalled dietexpert.Puhleeze Eating is joy, passion,maybe a thrill. When u eat well, u eat less. tt’s my diet
7.15.09 In Osaka they have a word for insatiable gluttony -"Kuidaore" means eat till you burst. Got that from the Guardian. Could be useful one day
7.14.09 New Yorkmag’s Eat Cheap issue shows why we mustn’t let print die. No way could you get that fun and voyeurism on line. Cel fone? Forget it
7.14.09 I’m thrilled Manhattan Users Guide just named InsatiableCritic one of their 39 Newww.York favorite websites – I’m thriving digitally.
7.12.09 Luscious sour cherries on my cereal this morng. Of course you have to not crack tooth on the pits. I could depit them but I’m reading Style
7.6.09 Sacha Baron Cohen naked GQ cover, scary in its depiliated glory,brings memories of Bert Reynolds’ Cosmo centrfold, gorgeous, sexy,hairy,real
7.30.09 Just found an AIG advice booklet for new grads:"Make people depend on you" "Be a person of integrity""Never exaggerate "Hv no careless days"
6.27.09 Farrah Fawcett, gorgeous in memory, so brave at the end.To be crass, bad timing. All those magazine covers being ripped apart 4 Michael.
6.22.09 "To have failed is to have lived," Cristina Nehring writes in A Vindication of Love, her cry for erotic passion. Guess bad boy lovers count.
6.5.09 Magazine full of advertising.Newspapers prospering. Makes me cry for our limping media. Celso Araujo also edits plastic surgery magazine.
4.16.09 New book for review: Dr. David Kessler’s “The End of Overseating.” My first reaction: “FAT CHANCE.” I suppose I’ll have to read it anyway.
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