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On Jul 13, 2005, at 10:47, Simon Wistow wrote: > To be honest I didn't get as much out of the sequel "It must have been > something I ate". On the other hand I really like Anthony Bourdain's > Kitchen Confidential (even the fairly snoozy heroin bits) and liked > Cooks Tour much better on a second reading (after seeing the accompany > series). Yes. On the other hand, Bourdain's fiction is pretty ropey. Which is a shame. BTW: I have A Cook's Tour as a series of mpegs, if anyone wants a copy. It rules. In a Michael Palin meets Oliver Stone way. Don't bother with Cutting it Fine, which was a pale imitation of Kitchen Confidential. > Any other reccomendations (he says, in full on work avoidance mode)? I second the McGee recommendation. It's a real epic. I'd also get as much of Elizabeth David's output as you can get your hands on. Really evocative writing, and some top recipes, too. Leith's Techniques Bible is good too. Especially for the "what to do when it all goes horribly wrong" sections... Tom. (In other news: went to Floridita (was Mezzo) last night. I've never seen such good ingredients be so utterly fucked about with. Bad, bad cookery. But the dishes that were assembled rather than cooked were pretty decent.)There's stuff above here
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