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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
We don't like to let ourselves get annoyed by Adam Gopnik. It's like getting annoyed by traffic or long lines or Glenn Beck — if you allow it to bother you, you could spend the rest of your life pissed off and muttering to yourself. But every once in a while we do find ourselves just kind of marveling at the New Yorker writer's Gopnikness . Like in his recent Edible Manhattan...
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Grub Street - New York Magazine's Food and Restaurant Blog (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Edible Manhattan interviews New Yorker scribe Adam Gopnik, and Daily Intel notices that he drops an awful lot of names, including those of a few chefs with whom he’s chummy. [ Daily Intel ] Read more posts by Daniel Maurer Filed Under: personalities , adam gopnik , new yorker
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Mark Bernstein (Free subscription) | 28/11/2009
For Thanksgiving, I tried making kahk bracelets. They’re small, crunchy dough circles, something at the light end of the pretzel family. I thought they’d go nicely with football, and we certainly seem to have sold plenty of them. Get the book. I made the kahk from Claudia Roden. I’d never heard of them before, much less tasted one, and as Adam Gopnik points out in his...
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Mark Bernstein (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Adam Gopnik explores the evolution of cookbooks , from Escoffier’s dictionary to Julia’s encyclopedia and on to the modern cookbook which is a grammar. It’s an important essay. Your grandmother’s pound cake may have been like concrete, but it was about a whole history and view of life; it got that tough for a reason. Gopnik is right about the grammar, though...
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Publishers like Time Inc. and Condé Nast are reportedly banding together to build an "online newsstand" for digital content, similar to iTunes, which sounds like a fine idea. We hope there's a Genius component that recommends stuff, like "If You Like Adam Gopnick You Might Also Want to Try Monocle , Adam Thirlwell's The Delighted States: A Book of Novels, Romances,...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Adam Gopnik: "Vicarious pleasure? More like deferred frustration. Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved. … [If] the first thing a cadet cook learns is that words can become tastes, the second is that a space exists between what the rules promise and what the...
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MRod says: (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
One of the gifts in this year’s Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog is the “Algonquin Round Table Experience” which is a private dinner party for the buyer and their guest with the following distinguished VIPs. Christopher Buckley Roz Chast Delia Ephron Nora Ephron Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Malcolm Gladwell Adam Gopnik Lewis H. Lapham John Lithgow Anna Deavere Smith George...
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