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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Boiled down in British Columbia…
The internet is an odd organism. There is so much stuff floating around in it. Some of it is growing. Some of it is shrinking. Let me give you an example.
About six months ago I reviewed a book called “Cooking Dirty” by Jason Sheehan. My review was 500 words.
Six months later my 500 words have been cooked down. Reduced. Shrunken to their essence one might hope. A website in British Columbia, Kelowna.com, just published this:
Over the course of the year, we also liked these food-oriented books:
Cooking Dirty: A Story of Life, Sex, Love and Death in the Kitchen
By Jason Sheehan
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 355 pp.; $26)
Sheehan, a food writer in Denver, has cooked in about 30 restaurants, and this is his account of his life in the kitchen — from washing dishes at a pizza parlour in his hometown of Rochester, N.Y., to working at Jimmy’s Crab Shack in Florida. Sheehan’s hilarious and profane memoir is as finely honed as the expensive knives he carries with him to each new job. Vick Mickunas, Dayton Daily News
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