...and wake me when it's over.*
Calling out Hesser and her Food52 thing is a smart move for Kimball, in that it narrows and defines his competition in a way that makes ATC look better. Kimball asserts that "The current rage is the WIKI recipe notion — a community of on-line
foodies who can select and tweak recipes to come up with the best
possible version." It is perhaps a "current rage" in the fertile dreamlife of Amanda Hesser's publicist, but such projects are a very small fraction of what Kimball calls the "white noise" of (food writing) on the Internet. It's not Food52 that has people trying to cancel their Cooks subs as much as it is sites like the ones AG mentions in the penultimate antepenultimate graf of his rejoinder to Kimball. On the downside, by issuing this kind of challenge, Kimball throws his lot in with the ethos of TV shows like "Whip it out with Bobby Flay," or whatever it's called. Are you wondering if I can explain the title of this post? Well I think it can be easily done:
*Don't miss the comments. Those folks who were heckling Kathy Griffin must have jobs commenting on this blog.
I'm still waiting for the Chris Kimball writes the "Joy of Sex" parody contest. Sad that Dan Radosh doesn't have the time to host this kind of think anymore. Maybe Dan Savage is available.
I imagine a section dedicated to suggestions from readers on clever solutions for tedious bedroom annoyances using saran wrap and hair elastics.
Posted by: Rose's Lime | Thursday, 15 October 2009 at 10:41 PM
I've been pondering dissing blogs just so that I can get a whole slew of readers. Seriously, that was Kimball's greatest maneuver. It assures that his name and his self-association with extremely well-tested recipes will permeate the food blog writing.
It's AG's antepenultimate graf, by the way, which I note just because I like the word antepenultimate (and its predecessor, preantepenultimate)
Posted by: Derrick Schneider | Friday, 16 October 2009 at 09:44 AM
DS- Thank you for pointing out the error in re ultimates. I failed to scroll energetically enough.
But otherwise, if my longstanding issue w/ Kimball is that the joy in eating lies in experiment and improvisation, rather than obsessive efforts to perfect a single dish, the way to challenge that would be to ignore it?
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