Once again, dear reader, I’m going to send you over to my other electronic outpost Intentionally Entertaining, in order to share another book review cum memoir cum recipe. On essentially the first page of Dracula, Jonathan Harker enjoys a local Carpathian dish called paprika hendl. In the lavishly annotated Dracula from 1975 pictured above, Leonard [...]
Over at Intentionally Entertaining, I’ve put up a review/editorial about the brilliant Italo Calvino‘s story Under the Jaguar Sun—once again warping the boundaries of what either blog is supposed to exist for. Food and art and books intersect at so many interesting junctions that it seems natural to me to always be talking about all [...]
For those who missed it, I recently posted a review of two retro cookbooks over on the other blog I share with my wife Michelle: Intentionally Entertaining. Cooking has long been a passion of mine—as I’ve mentioned previously in this space—and the new blog has been a great way for me to drone on about [...]
Food and Trembling by Jonah Campbell My rating: 4 of 5 stars Last week I stumbled upon some highlights of Jonah Campbell‘s recently launched book Food & Trembling, based on his excellent blog, in an article at the Toronto AV Club. I was so taken by the excerpts that I went out that night to [...]
