August 20th, 2006, 11:12
"I bagged Chuck-Wagon Cooking: тАЬAn authentic collection of round-up law, cowboy humour and more than 100 old-time recipesтАЭ. The cover is a fetching photo of stew, biscuits and a .45. No well-fitted kitchen should be without one. Then there was a collection of recipes from the pinto-bean cooking contest, with classics such as pinto-bean mock chicken legs and pinto-bean fudge. And there was a book with one of those titles that makes you kick yourself for not having thought of it first: Best Recipes from the Backs of Boxes, Bottles, Cans and Jars. IsnтАЩt that brilliant?"
"America has a particularly intimate relationship with proprietary processed food, and these recipes were as bizarre, touching, occasionally delicious but mostly palate-scrapingly disgusting as the States itself. How about oven-fried chicken and bananas, from the Coco Casa cream-of-coconut label? The ingredients are chicken bits, cream of coconut, lemon juice, bananas, three-quarters of a cup of melted margarine and two and a half cups of cornflakes. IтАЩm not going to give you the method for Jell-o Artichoke Salad. YouтАЩll just have to imagine. The Jell-o flavour is lime, naturally."
A A Gill Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 78,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25609-2308278,00.html)
"I hadnтАЩt had dinner with Jeremy Clarkson for ages. тАЬWhere are we eating?тАЭ he asked. Gilgamesh, I said. тАЬWhat?тАЭ Gilgamesh. тАЬWhatтАЩs that?тАЭ Earliest recorded fiction. Written in cuneiform. Story of Babylonian deific king of Uruk and his wild and brutish friend Enkidu, who runs naked through the forest.
тАЬI donтАЩt like the sound of that.тАЭ ItтАЩs wonderful: a marvellously powerful poetic narrative that includes the original story of the flood. And youтАЩre very like Enkidu. тАЬNo, I mean I donтАЩt want to eat cuneiform.тАЭ Granted, itтАЩs an odd name for a restaurant. тАЬWhere is it?тАЭ Okay, got a pen? The Stables Market. тАЬThatтАЩs pretentious.тАЭ Chalk Farm Road. тАЬOh God, itтАЩs north. The next thing youтАЩre going to say is N something.тАЭ NW1. The ululating rant about north LondonтАЩs inhabitants, their mothers, personal hygiene and habits that followed neednтАЩt detain us................"
A A Gill Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 78,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25609-2270578,00.html)
"America has a particularly intimate relationship with proprietary processed food, and these recipes were as bizarre, touching, occasionally delicious but mostly palate-scrapingly disgusting as the States itself. How about oven-fried chicken and bananas, from the Coco Casa cream-of-coconut label? The ingredients are chicken bits, cream of coconut, lemon juice, bananas, three-quarters of a cup of melted margarine and two and a half cups of cornflakes. IтАЩm not going to give you the method for Jell-o Artichoke Salad. YouтАЩll just have to imagine. The Jell-o flavour is lime, naturally."
A A Gill Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 78,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25609-2308278,00.html)
"I hadnтАЩt had dinner with Jeremy Clarkson for ages. тАЬWhere are we eating?тАЭ he asked. Gilgamesh, I said. тАЬWhat?тАЭ Gilgamesh. тАЬWhatтАЩs that?тАЭ Earliest recorded fiction. Written in cuneiform. Story of Babylonian deific king of Uruk and his wild and brutish friend Enkidu, who runs naked through the forest.
тАЬI donтАЩt like the sound of that.тАЭ ItтАЩs wonderful: a marvellously powerful poetic narrative that includes the original story of the flood. And youтАЩre very like Enkidu. тАЬNo, I mean I donтАЩt want to eat cuneiform.тАЭ Granted, itтАЩs an odd name for a restaurant. тАЬWhere is it?тАЭ Okay, got a pen? The Stables Market. тАЬThatтАЩs pretentious.тАЭ Chalk Farm Road. тАЬOh God, itтАЩs north. The next thing youтАЩre going to say is N something.тАЭ NW1. The ululating rant about north LondonтАЩs inhabitants, their mothers, personal hygiene and habits that followed neednтАЩt detain us................"
A A Gill Sunday Times http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 78,00.html (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25609-2270578,00.html)