I’m on a bit of a reading binge — of all the binges I engage it, it’s the worst for my eyesight, but my hips are certainly happy that I’m choosing books over cupcakes. But since I just finished a manuscript of my own, I’m taking some time to make a dent in my to-be-read pile. The pile is more like a Hydra than a finite resource, and books that I’ve always meant to read somehow manage to spring up and replace anything I finish, but that is not such a bad problem to have.
Here’s a taste of what I’ve read and what I hope to read in April — what am I missing? Pray, tell me more! →
Posted on 5 April 2011 * Add a Comment
Tags: Bingeing * Research * TBR * What I'm Reading *
As far as I know, the Regency did not have anything like “Top Chef” (they were rather short on televisions, after all). But, they did have one of the very first celebrity chefs – Marie-Antoine Carême. According to Venetia Murray’s book “High Society”, Carême’s father was a stonemason with fifteen other children; and so, when Carême was eleven, his father took him to Paris, “fed him supper in a tavern and abandoned him in the street.” Awfully nice of dear old dad to give him supper first, right?
