"When you squeeze it, its golden brown crust should crackle and even sing. Its aroma should be a little bit sweet, a little bit toasty. There should be a good marriage between its crust and its interior crumb. When the crumb is pressed, it should spring back rapidly. Its color should be off-white and its cavities widely distributed and uneven in size. Its nutty, buttery taste should be both sweet and savory - like a good chardonnay.” Bread expert and Cornell prof
Steven Kaplan talks with Conan, to pretty hilarious effect, about his
latest book.
You may have to snoop around the NBC site - I couldn't find a direct link. The man is really into
baguettes. He's given a few entertaining
radio interviews as
well, and a New York magazine
profile of him features a list of his
six favorite NYC baguettes.
If you don't have a great bakery nearby, you can
try your
hand at
home.
Bonus Game:
Balance the Baguette! (from a previous post)
posted by jtajta
on Feb 24, 2007 -
22 comments
Philip J. Kaplan is probably best known as the founder of
Fuckedcompany which chronicled the bustiest parts of the dot-com boom Fewer, perhaps, recognize him in his guise as power-glam-rocker
Beef Savage. Beef has been silent for years, but has now been (barely) reinvented as
The Metalizer. "I take regular songs (that suck) and turn them into heavy metal songs (that ROCK)."
posted by grumdrig
on Jan 5, 2006 -
26 comments
Imperial Grunts: With the Army Special Forces in the Philippines and Afghanistan—laboratories of counterinsurgency. Robert Kaplan's new
book has been excerpted over the last while in the Atlantic Monthly, and it's an amazingly relevant and enthralling book. It draws several parallels that are perhaps underrepresented in the media, such as the the similarities between the Iraqi and Afghani insurgency and the the
Philippine-American War. It's also an incredible look at the logistics and tactics involved in fighting wars, both at the forward-operating Special Forces level and within the macro "Big Army" bureaucracy. The focus of the book is the status and abilities of American "empire", its use of power and its goals.
posted by loquax
on Dec 7, 2005 -
58 comments
