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"Michelin-starred restaurants began to look and taste the same."

the man of twists and turns — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:24:16 -0800

Vanity Fair: What's Wrong With The Michelin Guide. Esquire:Why It's Hard To Trust The Michelin Standards. FT:Star-Crossed: Once universally revered, the Michelin Guide is now dismissed by some as a relic of a bygone age

The Omnivore's dilemma

verstegan — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:22:19 -0800

The Hatchet Job of the Year Award, sponsored by The Omnivore, is looking for 'the angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review of the last twelve months'. The shortlist includes Geoff Dyer on Julian Barnes ('excellent in its averageness'), Lachlan Mackinnon on Geoffrey Hill ('he is wasting his time and trying to waste ours') and Jenni Russell on Catherine Hakim ('if you should pass it in a bookshop, pick up a copy and drop it somewhere where nobody's likely to take an interest in it'). Mary Beard, another of the shortlisted candidates, insists that 'it's not actually a prize for skewering .. it's for honest as well as entertaining book reviewing, that isn't afraid to go beyond deference, to call a spade a spade'. The full shortlist: Mary Beard on Rome by Robert Hughes. (First published in the Guardian, 29 June 2011.) Geoff Dyer on The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. (First published in the New York Times, 16 Dec 2011.) Camilla Long on With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey. (First published in the Sunday Times, 26 June 2011.) Lachlan Mackinnon on Clavics by Geoffrey Hill. (First published in the Independent, 3 June 2011.) Adam Mars-Jones on By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham. (First published in the Observer, 23 Jan 2011.) Leo Robson on Martin Amis: The Biography by Richard Bradford. (First published in the New Statesman, 14 Nov 2011.) Jenni Russell on Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim. (First published in the Sunday Times, 21 Aug 2011.) David Sexton on The Bees by Carol Ann Duffy. (First published in the London Evening Standard, 22 Sept 2011.)

AOHell

Horace Rumpole — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:30:40 -0800

One night, I awoke out of a dead sleep, and jumped to my computer, and instantly began typing up an article about David Letterman. I kept going for ten minutes, until I realized I had dreamed it all. There was no article to write; I was simply typing up the same meaningless phrases that we all always used: “LADY GAGA PANTLESS ON LATE NIGHT WITH DAVID LETTERMAN,” or some such.

AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out.

What they REALLY thought of your paper

subdee — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:18:23 -0800

Related to the previous post, but hopefully sufficiently different: referees' quotes on manuscripts submitted to Environmental Microbiology: the Best of 2010. On "Alfachetoglutarate": for those who don't know, alpha-ketoglutarate ia a major intermediate in the Krebs cycle, aka how you burn most of your sugars.