Out of Ambit
Food, restaurants and cooking
Online for seven days: “Eating in Narnia”
This essay appeared a couple of years ago in the Smart Pop Books release Through the Wardrobe: Your Favorite Authors on C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. It was a chance to set down in detail some random thoughts that had occurred to me while rereading the books, or cooking. (If you want to read [...]
Advertising versus reality
This German website, when you click one or another spot on the main image, shows you both the inside and the outside of a package of food — that is, the difference between the “artist’s impression” / “serving suggestion” of a package, and what the contents really look like when you open the package and/or prepare [...]
Useful: guide to available meals & food charges on US airlines
In the NY Times travel section. Tags: food, prices, US+airlines, flights, US
I missed this somehow: the Return of the Hydrox
(Hmm, sounds like a Doctor Who title. You can just hear the denouement. “All right, Masters of the Hydrox, now listen to me! In accordance with Section Eighteen, paragraph twelve of the Shadow Proclamation, and by virtue of the power vested in me as the last of the Time Lords, I order you to divest yourselves of all excess [...]
And now a word about our favorite pizza source in Dublin
Which would be (originally) Independent Pizza Co. in Drumcondra, but (even more so) its younger sister-facility, Gotham Café in South Anne Street. The excellent Adam Kuban of Slice, the pizza lovers’ website par excellence, has just kindly posted a note I dropped him about the place. Gotham Café is one of our favorite places to [...]
About the blogger
30+ years in print, 50+ novels, assorted TV and movie work, the NYT Bestseller List a few times, blah blah blah. Also: the Young Wizards series, 1983-2010 and beyond.
That said, sometimes I want to talk about anything but writing. This is one place where that happens.
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