Comments on: Cathy Erway http://listics.com/201002275295 “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 Sat, 30 Mar 2025 08:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: don harvey http://listics.com/201002275295/comment-page-1#comment-64770 don harvey Mon, 01 Mar 2025 17:36:50 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5295#comment-64770 Sorry , I wasn’t clear. There’s no sex in the book or the film. The story of Julie’s sordid affair is just now revealed in her newest book the tiltle of which escapes me. Something like, “How I mixed up my French cuisine with French Ticklers and got left with a lot of ‘esplaining to do”.

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/201002275295/comment-page-1#comment-64769 Frank Paynter Mon, 01 Mar 2025 16:08:44 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5295#comment-64769 Okay. Now I’ve got to see it. No, I haven’t read the complete Pollan oeuvre. Another contemporary foodstar is Mark Bittman. Erway mentioned him as an inspiration and Beth talks about his NYT blog posts from time to time. I haven’t read him because I fear he eschews French fries and transfats and such.

]]> By: Don Harvey http://listics.com/201002275295/comment-page-1#comment-64767 Don Harvey Mon, 01 Mar 2025 00:20:21 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5295#comment-64767 Nice Clip. Elaine has seen that lecture with minor variations four or five times and she steals his stuff for her talks all the time. I assume you’ve read “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” (also Pollan) or “The Botany of Desire” which I plan to read in preparation for having sex with a pitcher plant. As for “Julie and Julia”, cute film with right on Julia Child imitation by Meryl Streep right up there with Dan Akroyd. Book is better. More interesting to me is the fact that Julie was taking breaks from banging away at her blog to bang her ever so supportive husband’s best friend. Is this a common behavior among blogsters?

]]> By: Frank Paynter http://listics.com/201002275295/comment-page-1#comment-64766 Frank Paynter Sun, 28 Feb 2025 22:34:38 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5295#comment-64766 “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Michael Pollan and Alice Waters are a couple of my fave raves, but this worship of the gods and goddesses of the kitchen, for me, goes back to M.F.K. Fisher.

Have you seen the Meryl Streep movie? Julie and Julia, or something like that… me neither, but I intend too.

Here’s Pollan at his best… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgNAICA8rE8

]]> By: Don Harvey http://listics.com/201002275295/comment-page-1#comment-64765 Don Harvey Sun, 28 Feb 2025 15:34:12 +0000 http://listics.com/?p=5295#comment-64765 You’re just now getting to In Defense of Food??
Shame Frank. Save yourself some time and jump ahead to Food Rules (Pollen’s Cliff Notes of In Defense of Food). I recommend this despite the fact that Michael Pollen rejected my daughter’s application to the journalism department at Berkley. The prick!

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