John Baker’s Blog

It weren’t me I don’t ‘member being there. No sir.
This’s not how I’d do and I never left this place to do nothing. Not me. I’d sure ‘member something like that. I’m not going down for something like that. I’m clean in this respect.
Permission to speak, sir?
Some other guy might’ve but I wasn’t the one [...]

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 [...]