tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720533874747570790.post6943983870381749833..comments2008-04-02T08:45:49.855-04:00Comments on Always Order Dessert: Time to Vote!Alejandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01188236667131395996noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720533874747570790.post-65971290824404421032008-04-02T08:45:00.001-04:002008-04-02T08:45:00.001-04:00Also, Isabella Allende's Afrodita is really great....Also, Isabella Allende's Afrodita is really great. Has recipes and stories interwoven throughout. I can bring it with me this summer!Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17844257438638226057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720533874747570790.post-25608686957271111212008-04-02T08:45:00.000-04:002008-04-02T08:45:00.000-04:00The book I was telling you about:From: The New Yor...The book I was telling you about:From: The New York Times Book Review, James PolkThe Croatian novelist and journalist Slavenka Drakulic begins The Taste of a Man with excess and then goes way beyond it. Tereza is a Polish graduate student who has come to New York to research her doctoral dissertation. But once she's met Jose, a Brazilian anthropologist working on a book about cannibalism, these Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17844257438638226057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720533874747570790.post-66755159098119292192008-03-31T17:14:00.000-04:002008-03-31T17:14:00.000-04:00Those are all fabulous, and so very different.I ha...Those are all fabulous, and so very different.I had to choose Melville/Moby Dick, since that is the passage that most vividly and lovingly describes a dish in such a way that I am suddenly pining for a bowl of clam chowder.Jennifer Jeffreyhttp://www.jenniferjeffrey.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-720533874747570790.post-50607281713908112422008-03-31T09:37:00.000-04:002008-03-31T09:37:00.000-04:00That was tough for me. I had to stow my love of He...That was tough for me. I had to stow my love of Hemingway, since the snippet from Moby Dick reminded me of some long forgotten New England childhood that may or may not have existed.To satisfy any curious bodies, here's the quote I considered sending in. It's actually the last sentence in a great chapter about breading veal cutlets while encouraging people to kill themselves..."And maybe this is Ryan Placchettihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17743810921833780390noreply@blogger.com