Anthony Bourdain’s Presence, and Absence, Have Been Palpable at this Year’s Cayman Cookout
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The Writing Life: How Bad Do You Want It?
Publishing budgets aren’t what they used to be. One author’s tale of what it took to get on the road and promote a book in 2018.
Commentary: Julian Niccolini Goes Down, But Can Pete Wells Come Back?
The Intellectual Indefensibility of the Paper’s Four Seasons Review Just Came Into High Relief
Slice of Life: The List (a.k.a. Where Should We Go For Dinner?)
Picking a Restaurant Has Become an Emotional and Social Minefield for Diner and Chef
Ruminations: For the Love of Pod
A few of my favorite podcasts …
Saturday Morning, 6AM
Where I went this week, in the post I swore I’d never write
Clocking Out: Code of Conduct; Critical Condition; On the Road Again
Notes from the Week in Toqueland (February 2 – February 9, 2018)
The Cutting Room Floor, Volume 1
A selection of amusing and/or poignant moments from coast to coast that I couldn’t fit into my new book
Clocking Out: McBride’s Stylistic Migration at Maysville; JBF Curveball; We Don’t Need No Stinking Stars
Notes on the Week in Toqueland (January 27 – February 2)
The Toqueland Interview: Jesse Cool
The Menlo Park Icon on the Role of Hippies; Knowing How the Grapes are Grown; What’s In a Name; and “Cooker People”
Clocking Out: Chefs Crash the Oscars; Critical Limits?; Au Revoir, Monsieur Paul
Notes on the Week in Toqueland: Thoughts on the Oscar-Nominated Documentary Knife Skills, more eulogies for Paul Bocuse, and Restaurant Criticism Amid The Reckoning
Ruminations: A Tale of Two Chefs
Thoughts on Cooking and Immortality As We Say Goodbye to Paul Bocuse, and Remember Michael Roberts