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Category Archive for 'Jim Harrison'

Foie Gras, Leek and Truffle-Stuffed Quails: Just One of Jim Harrison’s Gifts to Mankind

Posted in blogging, butter, Fall, game, Garlic, Jim Harrison, Meat, mushrooms, poultry, truffles, walnuts on Sep 8th, 2010

“Once, at the Denver Airport, a bald girl in an orange dress told me I could be what I wanted.” – Jim Harrison, The Raw & The Cooked There’s an awful conceit abroad the interwebs these days that seems to be encouraging more people than it should to title themselves “freelance food writers”. Perhaps you’ve […]

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Does Hollywood Hate Food?

Posted in eastenders, entertainment, Eric Bana, Fast Food, Fast Food Nation, film, Food Commentary, jamon, Jim Harrison, movies, Munich, Oscars, Steak, television show on Feb 28th, 2008

So, it took Sunday night’s Oscars (and Jim Harrison’s The Raw and the Cooked) to get me thinking about movies and food, or more properly, food in the movies. I’m not talking about popcorn and slippery nachos washed down with a gallon of fountain soda here, I’m talking about movies in which food is actually […]

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