Comments on: Food geekery (what I talk about when I talk about food writing)

By: Lynne

Lynne — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:43:18 +0000

This is still one of my favourite posts of yours..

and btw.. totally off subject – but I have awarded you a Sunshine award for making me smile – here you are

http://josordoni.blogspot.com/2010/04/sunshine-award.html
Lynne´s last blog ..3 Day Seville Orange Marmalade

By: A vegetarian friend

A vegetarian friend — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:48:39 +0000

Great article. Makes me want to read all of it – even the stuff about meat!

By: goodshoeday

goodshoeday — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:55:24 +0000

Oops bit behind on responding to comments – I got lost in the library – honest!

Jan: Not sure about being a clever old sausage more a compulsive buyer of books (and erm other stuff hmmm)

Heavenly H: I am going for the World Record….

Paul: I think Umberto is right the more you read the more you want to know, I love the research bit as much as the cooking and eating bits.

George: Art of Eating is great and they are on Twitter too tho they don’t say much. And Best Food Writing is brilliant I have decide to recap from the start of the collection – I may be some time :S

By: George@CulinaryTravels

George@CulinaryTravels — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:14:30 +0000

What a lovely post. I have just received my copy of Best Food Writing 2009 today and am looking forward to pouring a large glass of red and reading through some of it this evening.

The Art of Eating is something I’m going to have to look into asap.

Love your collection of books, and seeing them all makes me feel better about my ever growing collection too.
George@CulinaryTravels´s last blog ..The Making Of A Baker

By: paul

paul — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:15:10 +0000

What a fantastic post ! I love the comment about unread books and well thumbed, it reminds me of the writer Umberto Eco who with a library of 30,000 books claims that the more you know on a subject the more unread books you will have.

In the book Black Swan, Nassim Taleb talks about a library being a research tool which is exactly the point your post makes!

Excellent!
paul´s last blog ..Classic pot-au-feu

By: Heavenly Housewife

Heavenly Housewife — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:03:30 +0000

Oh my goodness, I thought I had a lot of cookbooks LOL.
Heavenly Housewife´s last blog ..La Grande Epicerie, Paris

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:12:24 +0000

Linda, I can’t believe I missed this. I can only think it is due to being posted just before Christmas. It’s brilliant. You’re a clever old sausage aren’t you? ;o)

Loved it.
Jan´s last blog ..An Ample Christmas

By: goodshoeday

goodshoeday — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:40:59 +0000

I’m glad to have whetted appetites for some new geeky adventures an delighted to have found some fellow geeks. There is so much great and weird food writing out there as well as all the recipe books. I think Sig is onto something with the idea of a food geekery book club, it would be brilliant we could read a book and then meet to eat and discuss

The main disadvantage of having posted this is that my family have now seen how many books i have and erm probably won’t buy me any more

Helen: I love the fact that Steingarten is obsessed by food and makes the quest to find out about something seem entirely normal, very funny and not in the slightest bit quirky. I’d love to go tot he symposium again especially if there were a group of us would be great fun. I think its in July this year.

Lynne: glad to have introduced you to some new things to read.

Grethic: Obsessed? Me? Never :0

Scandilicious: you’ve got plenty of time to catch up…..

Jonathan: the ‘Best Food Writing’ books are brilliant, shame there isn’t a UK based one as well I’ll bet there are plenty of great writers we haven’t found yet.

Alex: liking the idea of halves on US Vogue. I have to admit i did look at the fashion as well but I turned to JS first.

Dan: Glad to have opened yer Essex eyes. Cheese info on its way soon

By: Dany

Dany — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:55:15 +0000

Wow, I reckon ÜberFoodGeek is more appropriate here. Linda you have opened my eyes, didn’t even know any of this stuff was out there. No wonder you’ve got some info on Essex cheese, which I’d still like to check out pretty please.
Dany´s last blog ..Whatamistakatomaka: A Rant Against Homemade Pasta

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:11:10 +0000

I love your list – so useful! And we could go halves on US Vogue – I’ll keep the fashion, you keep the rest? Brit Vogue used to have great food in it too, Annie Bell was followed by Nigella then Skye Gyngell. Obviously they were just recipes rather than JS’s essays – my fave was when he tried to make Southern Fried Chicken!
Alex´s last blog ..Earth: Art of a changing world