Clockwise from lower left, Deborah Jones, David Hughes, Dave Cruz, Jeff Cerciello, moi, Amy Vogler, Thomas (yes, first name only now), Susie Heller/Photo "by" Deborah Jones
A lot of friends emailed me last month asking what I thought about the stink bomb
Julia Moskin dropped on the cookbook world in her bitter account of chefs not writing their own books (or sometimes not even reading them). Then there was the dustup that followed—Paltrow
histrionic with the Times, Regina Schrambling (indefatigable NYTimes gadfly)
calling bullshit on it all, time.com
weighing in decorously. So this is for my friends who asked.
In Michael Symon’s book,
Live to Cook, he includes a recipe of
mine (naturally fermented pickles), and
I wrote the headnote in
his voice. How meta!
The above photograph is by Deborah Jones, a ...
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