Andrew P. Haley
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The Core
I am wondering--without really knowing--how the machismo of some celebrity chefs effects the profession as a whole. I know chefs who have not only created new foods, but have imagined new ways of running a kitchen. But it is the celebrity chef, real chefs ... -
The View from the Couch
I admire Megan. Not content that she has run a mile on the treadmill in penance for watching television, she channels the competitive energy of the show into making dinner. Although I rarely watch food t.v. (probably should not admit that), when I do, it ... -
The Unexamined Life
“Someone will say: Yes, Socrates, but cannot you hold your tongue, and then you may go into a foreign city, and no one will interfere with you? Now I have great difficulty in making you understand my answer to this. For if I tell you that this would be a ... -
Gordon and Julia
I don’t think the clip is faked, but it is filmed. This is Gordon Ramsey’s “ultimate” Christmas and the ultimate family gathering does not include a child with an arm in a sling. (The word “ultimate” in front of Christmas depresses me. It implies an end a ... -
Feel Good Moments
I think you are both right, Eric and Megan. We turn on the television looking for friends and not finding them, we settle for celebrity. Maybe that is why the celebrity chef had to work so hard to be perfect; they know we are settling for something less t ... -
Knowledge is Power
Like Allison, I don't want to cook day after day and I do not know how to change my car's oil (and also can't access the video). But lacking a private shopper to go to the grocery store, I can't escape an intimate relationship to food. ... -
20 Seconds of Bliss
I was less bothered by the slightly obscured labels on the pints of ice cream than the canning jars of premeasured chips and the absurdly named “pitcherette” (a word that Nigella Lawson did not invent, it seems, but that is so obscure that a Google search ...