Great! Some of the photos from the excellent book Hungry Planet, by Peter Menzel, are up online at Time.com. Love these.
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July 2007
So I got a terrible phone call last night. The voice on the other end of the line told me that people had been spotted taking stuff out of Le Petit Prince Patisserie on Broadway. Like, ovens and stuff. The kind of stuff essential to running a patisserie. The clear implication was that Le Petit [...]
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That Peter Meehan has a knack: very precise and good review of Kabab Cafe in the NY Times today. Another good turn of phrase: “authoritative inconsistency,” in reference to Ali’s knife skills. Although I do object a little–Ali has pro-chef knife skills, not Grandma-style skills as Meehan says. He can chop an onion into tiny [...]
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The other night I realized that the guy who runs a blog about Syria that I read frequently is actually the very same person I maintained an eight-hour-crush on at a dinner party in London in 1995. He had long, curly red hair then, and knew about the Middle East, which was part of the [...]
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Throw a dinner party without having a breakdown!