Tummy Bugs

1. Rota virus. Nothing is more boring than other people’s illnesses. I mention this virus that I’ve been suffering for the past couple of weeks because it’s not clear that…

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Servants. The Missing Link in Culinary Change

Here’s a story about servants.  Brigid Keenen, wife of a British diplomat in waning years of the last century, wrote a memoir. Perhaps her particular kind of British humor does…

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Your Friend, The Kitchen. Really?

Here’s a link to an editorial called Your friend, the kitchen in today’s LA Times. A quick google shows that the author, Paul Roberts, has just produced a book called The…

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