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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 13, 2021, 08:18:23 pm ---I believe I did, too, but I often read essays twice (there are several David Foster Wallace essays I've read at least three or four times). I never read Kitchen Confidential and probably won't get around to it, but Anthony Bourdaine was an interesting writer and person.
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I should do a Google search. I'm wondering if any of the restaurants written about in the article still exist.
Jeff Wrangler:
I didn't really get the Nabokov. Was it supposed to be funny, or what? But what a wonderful name: Bodo von Falternfels. :D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 13, 2021, 10:39:04 pm ---I should do a Google search. I'm wondering if any of the restaurants written about in the article still exist.
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Well, Brasserie Les Halles, where Bourdaine describes working, is referred to in past tense in Wikipedia.
Jeff Wrangler:
I read Calvin Trillin on the Crawfish Festival. I've always enjoyed reading him.
serious crayons:
I?ve probably mentioned this before but he came to my paper to speak to reporters 6 or 8 years ago. Had some good stories.
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