Mea maxima culpa! I should have got round to reviewing this months ago but it’s a truly massive, iconic and somewhat daunting tome. The first chapter, titled Meat and Right forms a spirited defence/justification/moral discussion, call it what you will of man’s role as carnivore. Hugh then moves on to a discussion of what good ...
Books & EquipmentAn advance copy proved to be one of my top three reads of the Christmas Holidays (for the record the other two were ‘Waterland’, Graham Swift’s tragic, atmospheric novel and Bob Dylan’s marvellous ‘Chronicles’). Chelminski, veteran foreign correspondent and bestselling author, is a perceptive writer well able to get to grips with the facts and ...
Books & EquipmentAwopBopAlooBopAlopBamBoom! In this seminal chronicle of the rock and pop phenomenona, Nik Cohn observed that in the first year of any given decade the music is always crap. Personally, after Rue Morgue 1960 and ghastly ’70, I didn’t think 1990 was that bad. Merely dull. I always think of it as the year Middle Of ...
Restaurant ReviewsLa Dolce Vita is a cult film, made in 1960 by Italian maestro Federico Fellini. At a superficial level you could call the movie a remake of Roman Holiday but it’s much more than that. Fellini skilfully weaves a commentary on the life and times of a Europe emerging from post-war austerity and plunging headlong ...
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