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Jan 14, 2009 in Photo break
Yes. That’s the administration building from Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition in 1893. The Ninth Gate divx
Featured in Sufjan Steven’s song “Come on! Feel the Illinoise”
Also the star of Erik Larson’s very fun and awesome book The Devil in the White City
Jan 14, 2009 in On-line
Chris Hardwicke of Urbanism.org
points me to The New York Moon, an ambitious online magazine that thematically explores everything from water (check out their map of water systems of Manhattan), neighbourhoods, and even the future
The Romantic Englishwoman ipod .
The Moon Superman III movie doesn’t just look at New York, there’s pieces here about Rwanda, Peru (the floating cities of Lake Titicaca!), Istanbul and more.
Jan 14, 2009 in Books
Most of you who have come for my dinner parties know that I admire Mark Bittman. I never really learned how to cook when I was younger (I picked up the absolute basics from my mother) but Bittman, and British food writer Nigel Slater, were my mentors in the kitchen.
Mo Better Blues film Guilty by Suspicion film
Bittman’s How To Cook Everything has been a handy bible for me over the last few years and his NY Times blog, which include very easy-to-follow instructional videos) is a must-read for me.
I’m excited that he’s got a new book, Food Matters
. Salon’s Laura Miller reviews the book, comparing it favourably to Michael Pollan’s the Omnivore’s Dilemma.
From the review:
The formula is very simple (Bittman is the Minimalist, after all): “Eat less of certain foods, specifically animal products, refined carbs, and junk food; and more of others, specifically plants, in close to their natural state.” It is a recommendation that owes much (as Bittman repeatedly acknowledges) to the work of Michael Pollan, author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food”; the spirit of Pollan presides over this book like the Virgin Mary over a Catholic Church. In fact, you could describe “Food Matters” as “applied Pollan,” because Pollan, for all his endlessly inventive, inquisitive and adventurous writings on American eating and food production, lacks Bittman’s pragmatic touch.
Pollan is even making a stop here in Toronto. Sadly, I’ll probably be working.