Re: [london.food] Katsu!

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From: Simon Wistow
Subject: Re: [london.food] Katsu!
Date: 10:47 on 13 Jul 2005

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 11:00:17PM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble said:
> http://www.rumble.net/blog/index.cgi/food/katsu.html

I noticed that you had a link to this article by Jeffrey Steingarten 
which is the first chapter of his truly excellent book "The man who ate 
everything"

   http://slate.msn.com/id/3152/

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). 

I also enjoyed Nigel Slater's biography Toast even though it's actually 
quite creepy. 

Any other reccomendations (he says, in full on work avoidance mode)?

Simon

[london.food] Katsu! Rev Simon Rumble 23:00 on 12 Jul 2005
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- Re: [london.food] Katsu! Simon Wistow 10:47 on 13 Jul 2005
  I noticed that you had a link to this article by Jeffrey Steingarten
  - Rev Simon Rumble 10:53 on 13 Jul 2005
    Hmmm, a few books there that look worth checking out. I've just bought
  - Tom Sulston 11:05 on 13 Jul 2005
    Yes. On the other hand, Bourdain's fiction is pretty ropey. Which is a
    - too deep to show

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