Pan con tomate is a familiar menu item in most Spanish restaurants. It is a classic Catalan tapa. It is also one of the recipes included in Manuel Vazquez Montalban’s book, an erudite collection of erotic-gastronomic musings and recipes collected under the unlikely title of Recetas inmorales, ‘Immoral Recipes.’
Rejecting the gastronomic pillars of American imperialism [...]
The Australian novelist, Patrick White, left behind a box full of papers which have been stored in the Australian National Library.
Out of the boxes came extraordinary treasures: photographs of the young swell at Cambridge in the 1930s; precious letters saved from the thousands he’d received in a long lifetime; the old man’s beret and [...]
Blaise White was reading this book in Norway during the summer, so when I saw it on the counter at my local bookshop I bought a copy. The full title is The Perfect Egg and Other Secrets. Aldo Buzzi first published it in Milano in 1979 and it was eventually translated into English in 2005.
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