Hotel Splendide contains much of the same material. Hotel Bemelmans-which should be out in a few months from Broadway Books here--and Random House in the UK--will be a more complete collection.
Some lost, hard-to-find (but worth it) classics:
THE BELLY OF PARIS--Emil Zola (Anarchist Devil's Island escapee becomes food inspector in 19th century Les Halles. Slowly starves in midst of mountains of lushly, even...
Mr. Bond: Apparently I overlooked one of your posts. I meant no offense. As far as my plans for the future--which is what I think you asked? At this point--I really have no idea. I'm pretty much making it up as I go along. If I said I...
ATHENAEUS: Salutations. I applaud your commitment to your trade--and apologize for my gender confusion. But I hope that what appealed to all the chefs and cooks around the world who read and enjoyed KC is the acknowledgment that it...
I've been following recent comments on Kitchen Confidential with interest. As Anneke, I think, rightly pointed out, cooks of my generation--are in fact, dinosaurs--I'd hoped that I'd addressed that pretty explicitly in KC--that I come...
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This is the problem with written communications..there's no inflection. If I had SAID what I wrote, I think most of us would be able to recognize hyperbole, exaggeration and so on. But the written word gets taken exactly....
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You are--to put it very mildly--completely mistaken. I have never laid eyes on your website--and tend to doubt Ms. Reichl has either. (Though you never know. Just last week, I caught her -middle of the night--in a...
While chowder may be available in San Francisco--at the Swan Oyster Bar for instance--it is much more popular elsewhere, indigenous to New England and decidedly NOT a broth. There is only ONE chowder (forget about Manhattan--that's...
TETSU Rocks!! The book is fantastic, already a cult favorite of NYC chefs and line cooks--but the restaurant is even better. In a country rapidly filling up with terrific chefs and an exhuberant gold rush mentality for all things to do...
