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Manolo says, it is no secret that the Manolo he is something of the gourmand.
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April 12th, 2005 at 8:48 am
I love The Pogues! Clearly, the Manolo, his good taste extends beyond the shoes and the handsome movie stars like the Hasselhoff.
April 12th, 2005 at 8:56 am
Manolo, you truly are the gourmand which is why I must recommend The Debt To Pleasure by John Lanchester.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312420366/qid=1113313911/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/103-6177085-6460643
April 12th, 2005 at 8:56 am
I adore MFK Fisher and that specific collection of her writing is my favorite… has the Manolo discovered Calvin Trillin? I highly recommend “The Tummy Trilogy.”
April 12th, 2005 at 8:59 am
MFK Fisher is my heroine. Or perhaps she is my heroin. Whatever, I can’t stop reading her. Both her translation of Savarin and the books collected in The Art of Eating are things I am pushing on people all the time, with the glazed, passionate look of a fanatic. If only I could get enough copies of The Art of Eating wholesale so I could stand in airports and hand them out. And yes, I would wager that John Lanchester’s wicked little novel, The Debt to Pleasure, with its narrator who is nearly as charming and monstrous as Humbert Humbert, is right up the Manolo’s alley.
April 12th, 2005 at 9:58 am
Does the Manolo enjoy any of the blogging of the food and the cooking? If so, which ones?
April 12th, 2005 at 11:10 am
The Man Who Ate Everything is one of the most enjoyable books I have read lately-funny and informative. I’m sure the Manolo is enjoying it very highly.
April 12th, 2005 at 11:21 am
M.K. Fisher is so gently instructive, so amusing, so wonderfully pithy and sensible, and I love her very much.
But Manolo! The Steingarten is a buffoning, self-congratulating idiot.
April 12th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
I love the Pogues too, but I think the soundtrack to “Big Night” would be more fitting for the books of the week.
April 12th, 2005 at 1:43 pm
The Manolo likes The Pogues!!!!
Unfortunately, the Shane McGowan had the affliction with the alchohol, and was unceremoniuosly dropped from the band. I remember his performance on the Saturday Nite Live.
I must admit the the “Fairytale of New York” is my favorite Pogues song. Unfortunately, the Kirsty MacColl passed away from the drowning.
With such abundant good taste on display from The Manolo, I must rethink my feelings about the Hasselhof
April 12th, 2005 at 2:00 pm
I can’t believe you chose this subject! This very time last year I was sitting at my laptop in sunny Scotland slogging away on my dissertation on the role of food in comntemporary women’s writing! Most of the stuff you recommend this week I didn’t actually read but seems so relevant, nad might have got me a better grade too…sob!
April 12th, 2005 at 2:54 pm
Well, Amy, I’m not sure if the Manolo will check it out but I’m heading over to the bookstore this evening to pick up a copy of “The Debt To Pleasure.” Thanks for the recommendation…
April 12th, 2005 at 6:44 pm
I wish you’d continue with Media Galore. Just telling us, for example, “I’m listening to The Pogues” is a bit enigmatic since “listening to” doesn’t automatically mean enjoying. I write this as someone who takes your opinions seriously. I’m presently reading — and enjoying — “Nine Tailors” because you wrote persuasively in Media Galore about how much you liked it. And, yes, I’d like to have a butler like Bunter, too. Maybe our brave new century will produce cheap affordable Bunter robots……..
April 12th, 2005 at 7:00 pm
The Carl, he is right. The Manolo he has been so busy that has failed to promptly update the myriad Manolo sites, especiall the Media Galore, whcih it is sorely in need of more.
The Manolo he will soon change this.
April 12th, 2005 at 7:19 pm
If The Manolo likes to read about The Food, he should check out “Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food” by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto - a fascinating compendium about food.
And I ditto this thought: “The Steingarten is a buffoning, self-congratulating idiot.”
Mais oui!
April 12th, 2005 at 9:11 pm
“Babette’s Feast” is one of my favourite films. So simple, so spare, so elegant!