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 […]
This film was a box office hit in France, and did very well at the 2020 French Film Festival in Sydney. It’s basically about how agricultural methods and rural life have changed over the last 40 years. The director, Edward Bergeon, based it on his life growing up on a farm. The main character, a […]