Fork In Review

Steven Poole skewers chefs and foodism brilliantly, and according to him, they are so worthy of derision. We see food programs on television and social media constantly, and that’s largely because they are entertaining and, if viewers can’t cook, informative. He skewers gastronomic subcultures eg. organic, wellness, fair trade, holistic, ethical, carbon-sequestrating, allotment-digging, and macrobiotic […]

Any teenager thinking about doing an apprenticeship in cookery needs to read this book, so they can go in with their eyes wide open. Watching cookery programmes on television is not exactly related to real life in a commercial kitchen. Buford was asked by the New Yorker to write about Mario Batali, a famous New […]