Turnip writes: At a rented cottage with friends last weekend, I read The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan. In a stunningly surreal setting—the glittering, frozen lake crisscrossed with snowmobile trails and dotted with ice-fishing huts—I learned exactly how stunningly surreal our food industries have become. In a nutshell, it all comes down to corn. The [...]
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buddha is still hungry
Posted in Book Reviews, Restaurants, tagged 100-mile diet, Buddha Dog, hot dog, Jamie Kennedy, Kraft Dinner, memory on March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Stag writes: This is not a spoiler: at the end of the novelThe Gourmet, the famous French food critic, Pierre Arthens, dies. We know this will happen from the first page of the book, and the real suspense is built around his being tormented by his inability to recall the most delicious food he’s tasted [...]
