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Tuesday, May 8, 2007

A new book and a coincidence

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On the treadmill yesterday in the Globe's gym, with English celebrity chef Marco Pierre White's "The Devil in the Kitchen" on the bookstand in front of me, I read about another English chef named Simon Hopkinson, who had just opened Terence Conran's Bibendum restaurant. White mention that Hopkinson had just received an award for "the most useful recipe book ever written" for "Roast Chicken and Other Stories."

I went back up to my office and when I went through the day's mail, I found bound galleys of Hopkinson's book. It looks nothing like the picture above. Mine has an illustration of a head of garlic on it.

I'll be curious to see what the English consider a useful cookery book. It's organized in alphabetical order. Skimming the volume quickly, I decided it isn't the chapter on brains, nor the one on endive, nor grouse, nor kidneys, sweetbreads, or tripe. Chicken yes, cod yes, and yes to potatoes, salmon, scallops, and steak.

It may be one of those books that requires an English to English translator.

Posted by Sheryl Julian at 10:39 AM
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