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In Defense of Food, by Micheal Pollan

The hard part is the follow through. We hear all the time about the dangers of processed foods, and many of us have experienced first hand the benefits of a healthy diet, at least a healthy meal or two, and the satisfaction of real food. I feel better physically if I eat my vegetables and [...]

What We Eat When We Eat Alone, by Deborah Madison

On my birthday, I, solo, consumed an entire wheel of goat camembert, nearly half a jar of Maggie Beer’s Burnt Fig Preserves, half a loaf of vienoise, and an entire bottle of the Bastianich Rosato. I’ve testified to the binge several times since then, and everyone I’ve discussed it with congratulates me. It seems I’m [...]

My Favorite Cookbooks: Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, and Simone Beck

During the time I spent as the assistant to a sommelier, I worked in the back of the house in a wonderful restaurant with an award winning French chef. My station, the service bar where I set up the wine pairings and made cappuccinos, was just six feet in the tiny kitchen from the fish [...]

Recent Videos:

  • The Butterfly Circus

    While I passed Water for Elephants at the bookstore several times, I was finally hooked on the idea after viewing this short film set in [...]

  • Margaret Atwood: Sci-Fi Speculation Informs Our Choice of Future

    Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several [...]

  • The Scent of Green Papaya

    After reading The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, I went looking for vids on Haruki Murakami. No such luck. There’s a couple of bootlegs of a [...]

  • Johnny Mnemonic: Molly’s Prequel

    William Gibson’s novel Neuromancer features a character, Molly Millions, that he developed for the story Johnny Mnemonic. It was made into a movie starring Keannu [...]

  • Animal Farm: Animated in 1954

    Here’s a look at the animated version of Animal Farm produced in 1954. It’s available to watch on YouTube as an eight part series originally [...]

  • Augusten Burroughs on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos

    I found this hipster-lit vid on YouTube. I will probably soften up on Augusten Burroughs as I read more of his work. At the moment, [...]

  • Trailer: Ablutions

    This absurd and compelling animated trailer reminds me of Mike Whiteside’s stories, which all began, ” I was sitting in this bar in Hollywood..” I [...]

  • Trailer: Eating Animals

    Jonathan Safran Foer, the novelist best known for Everything is Illuminated has written a new book about meat. Here in the trailer he discusses his [...]

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