With all the noise around food and all the blah blah blah about food blogs these days, it’s refreshing to read something like this interview by the James Beard Foundation with my friend and former editor, and one of the founding editors of Saveur, Colman Andrews. I’d like these words even if Colman didn’t mention [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘food writing’
April 15, 2009
Did Virbila Really Write That?
I am on deadline + doing my taxes so no time to go into it right now, but… did Sherry Virbila really describe the shade of an olive as being the color of a felt puppet frog in her review of Pizzeria Ortica in today’s L.A. Times? I’ve long thought she and her old school-style [...]
March 11, 2009
A Day in the Slice of Life
When I was in my 20s and living in New York, I remember feeling like I wasn’t really qualified to be a girlfriend, much less a wife, because I didn’t have enough of a life. I had a boyfriend, Henry, who was 10 years older and a chef at one of New York’s few four-star [...]
February 17, 2009
Eating Penance
As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of people who write about food: those who seem to have given in to the obvious occupational hazard, and those who are determined to continue to fit into their jeans. Years ago I went to a seafood restaurant in Boston, one meant to capture the [...]
