2006feb12. I so thoroughly enjoyed Gene Weingarten’s article about The Great Zucchini (remember? see jan 28, below) that I went and fished out two offerings from the unrelated Jeffrey Steingarten: The Man Who Ate Everything and It Must Have Been Something I Ate out from the local book river. These are excellent chunks of writing – no matter where you are, gastronomically, he’ll ratchet you up a few notches. There are recipes, trivia, food excursions to various “other” countries, and the methodical scientifical Alton Brownical way of looking at food that the rapidly shrinking logical part of my brain enjoys so. There are two recurring tiny annoying motes peppered throughout the books – the ”wow, I’m not being paid well” old saw and the “I had an underling do something and they didn’t do it right” old saw. Then I started digging around, found out he’s a food columnist for Vogue and wait a minute ... he’s that guy on Iron Chef??? Hrm. His appearances on The IC don’t really match his writing, but writers are wack-a-moles anyway. [review]
