Shrink in the Kitchen

Why Talk about Food When There’s a War on OR The Gourmet’s Guide to Berlin, circa 1941…Scott Haas Analyzes The Bunker Mentality

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Entries from April 2008

Eat a Peach

April 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Commentary

There is such a profound disconnect between so much of what’s written about food and what’s going on in the rest of the world that I wonder how the writers and editors explain to themselves the relevance of their work.  On the one hand, we have a war without end and a recession in which [...]

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Iron Chef

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Commentary

It is a lonely experience wondering what’s real and what’s not and especially so without a formal psychiatric diagnosis that unfetters the imagination and allows the wonderer to feel rather at home when the issue of reality is called into question.  To be specific, why is there so much fuss about “Iron Chef?”  Years ago, [...]

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