My Dining Hell

Author: Jay Rayner
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241963206
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 68

Book Description
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush. They claim otherwise, of course. Readers like to present themselves as private arbiters of taste; as people interested in the good stuff. I'm sure they are. I'm sure they really do care whether the steak was served au point as requested or whether the soufflé had achieved a certain ineffable lightness. And yet, when I compare dinner to bodily fluids, the room to an S & M chamber in Neasden (only without the glamour or class), and the bill to an act of grand larceny, why, then the baying crowd is truly happy. Don't believe me? Then why, presented with the chance to buy this ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff - getting a complete stiffing courtesy of the sort of vitriolic bloody-curdling review which would make the victims call for their mummies, did you seize it with both hands?

Ultimate Dining Hall Hacks

Author: Priya Krishna
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1612124518
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Transform your dining hall meals into gourmet feasts! Ultimate Dining Hall Hacks offers 75 amazing and creative recipe ideas that use items readily available in your college dining hall. Enjoy eggs carbonara or a mango parfait for breakfast, dine on tzatziki chicken salad or lemon-pepper pasta any night of the week, and create custom desserts like peach cobbler and chocolate bread pudding. Discover a wide variety of inventively delectable options as you make the most of your college meal plan.

Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights

Author: Jay Rayner
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 1783351772
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Includes Le Cinq, Beast and Farm Girl Café, and a new introduction by the author. Jay Rayner isn't just a trifle irritated. He is eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly, teeth-grindingly angry. And admit it, that's why you picked up this book, isn't it? Because you aren't really interested in glorious prose poems celebrating the finest dining experiences known to humanity, are you? You want him to suffer abysmal cooking, preferably at eye-watering prices, so you can gorge on the details and luxuriate in vicarious displeasure. You're in luck. Revel in Jay's misfortune as he is subjected to dreadful meat cookery with animals that died in vain, gravies full of casual violence and service that redefines the word 'incompetent'. He hopes you enjoy reading his reviews of these twenty miserable meals a damn sight more than he didn't enjoy experiencing them.

The Table Comes First

Author: Adam Gopnik
Publisher: Knopf Canada
ISBN: 0307399036
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of Paris to the Moon, Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?" Never before have so many North Americans cared so much about food. But much of our attention to it tends towards grim calculation (what protein is best? how much?); social preening ("I can always score the last reservation at xxxxx"); or graphic machismo ("watch me eat this now"). Gopnik shows we are not the first food fetishists but we are losing sight of a timeless truth, "the table comes first": what goes on around the table matters as much to life as what we put on the table: families come together (or break apart) over the table, conversations across the simplest or grandest board can change the world, pain and romance unfold around it--all this is more essential to our lives than the provenance of any zucchini or the road it travelled to reach us. Whatever dilemmas we may face as omnivores, how not what we eat ultimately defines our society. Gathering people and places drawn from a quarter century's reporting in North America and France, The Table Comes First marks the beginning a new conversation about the way we eat now.

Brunch Is Hell

Author: Rico Gagliano
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316338966
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
A call to arms against BRUNCH . . . and a how-to guide for fighting back, from the hosts of the hit podcast and public radio show The Dinner Party Download Society is under threat. The culprit? BRUNCH. Not merely a forum for overpriced eggs, brunch is a leisure-time-squandering hellscape, embodying all that is soul-killing and alienating about modern life. How to fight back? By throwing dinner parties -- the cornerstone of civilized society! Dinner parties -- where friends new and old share food, debate ideas, and boldly build hangovers together. If we revive the fading art of throwing dinner parties the world will be better off, and our country might heal its wounds of endless division, all without having to wait in a 9-hour line to eat toast. To that end, Brunch is Hell takes hesitant hosts through every phase of throwing a great dinner party, from guest list to subpoena. Loaded with wit, celebrity advice, and tongue-in-cheek humor -- plus sincere insights about how humans can be more generous to each other -- Brunch is Hell is a spirited guide to restoring civility, in the bestselling tradition of Adulting, Amy Sedaris' I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence, and the Bible.

Jay Rayner's Last Supper

Author: Jay Rayner
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 1783352280
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 317

Book Description
You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a man more obsessed with his lunch than is strictly necessary, the idea of a showpiece last supper is a tantalising prospect. But wouldn't knowledge of your imminent demise ruin your appetite? So, Jay decided to cheat death. The plan was simple: he would embark on a journey through his life in food in pursuit of the meal to end all meals. It's a quest that takes him from necking oysters on the Louisiana shoreline to forking away the finest French pastries in Tokyo, and from his earliest memories of snails in garlic butter, through multiple pig-based banquets, to the unforgettable final meal itself. My Last Supper is both a hugely entertaining account of a life built around mealtimes and a fascinating global exploration of our relationship with what we eat. It is the story of one hungry man, in eight courses.

The Counselors

Author: Jessica Goodman
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593524241
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
**An INSTANT Indie Bestseller!** "A nervy, intense, and expertly crafted thriller that kept me hooked page after page. Dark secrets? Summer camp setting? Complex teen girls? Murder? Count me in. A simply stunning book." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces, You'd Be Home Now, and The Agathas From New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman comes a twisty new thriller about three best friends, one elite summer camp, and the dark secrets that lead to a body in the lake. Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. She’s always had a special connection to the place, even before she was old enough to attend. The camp is the lifeline of Roxwood, the small town she lives in. Alpine Lake provides jobs, money and prestige to the region. Few Roxwood locals, though, get to reap the rewards of living so close to the glam summer that camp, with its five-figure tuition and rich kids who have been dumped there for eight weeks by their powerful parents. Goldie's one of them. Even with her "townie" background, Goldie has never felt more at home at camp and now she’s back as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, to arrive. Because Goldie has a terrible dark secret she’s been keeping and she is more in need of the comfort than ever. But Goldie’s not the only person at camp who has been lying. When a teen turns up dead in the lake late one night, she knows that the death couldn’t have been an accident. She also knows that Ava was at the lake that same night. What did Ava see and what does she know? Why hasn’t she said anything to Goldie about the death? Worse—what did Ava do? But asking questions offers no answers, only broken bonds of lifelong friendship, with hidden danger and betrayals deeper than Goldie ever imagined.

Hell's Curse: Hell's Heirs, Book 1

Author: Eve Newton
Publisher: Catin Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211

Book Description
Being Hell’s only female Hellhound Shifter isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. When I’m hit with a Hellish curse that will change my life forever, my friends and I are caught up in a perilous situation that I can’t control. Or can I? As I wade through the proverbial Minotaur’s Labyrinth to escape, I try to figure out who is behind it. In a surprising twist, friends turn to enemies and some to lovers. But it’s the end result that shocks me the most. My mother, the Devil, reveals my true destiny and it’s one that I’m really unsure about. My sister is supposed to be the one with the hotshot future, not me. Yet here I am… As my circle of lovers grows to include a variety of Hell-ish Monsters, I’m left breathless as I figure out what being Hell’s Guardian is all about, not to mention having a handful of mates to keep happy. Party time is over for this Hellhound and now it’s time to step up. The first 12 chapters were published as a short story in the Into the Dark Anthology. These have been fleshed out and altered to include more depth and detail. This is now a full-length novel. Contains triggering situations. Includes scenes of M/M.

Raising Hell

Author: Melissa Haag
Publisher: Melissa Haag
ISBN: 1638690227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Hades sleeps no more. I woke the god of the underworld and paid his price for a chance to win my freedom. A kiss. Just one. But since surrendering his fee, I can’t stop thinking about doing it again. I am in so much trouble. Convincing Hades that she’s human is proving more difficult than Ashlyn imagined. The sexy king of Hell believes she’s playing games by withholding what he truly wants: Her. He alternates between outrageous promises to lay the world at her feet and demands for the affection he craves. He doesn’t ask for much. Just…everything. Even as she denies him, Ashlyn’s drawn closer to succumbing to his desires. And when a mysterious immortal with the ability to enter Hell attempts to kill Ashlyn, she knows there’s nowhere safer than within Hades’ protective arms. Now, not only must Ashlyn safeguard her heart from the seductive Hades, she must also figure out who wants her dead before Hades destroys the whole world in her name.

The Last Resort

Author: Jaqueline Girdner
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1497628652
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Kate Jasper, Marin County, California’s own organically grown amateur sleuth, is back in this second mystery in the series. The good news in The Last Resort is that Kate has finally divorced her husband, Craig, and is enjoying a platonic friendship with her now ex‐husband, happy in her own new love life. The bad news is that Craig has been dating his divorce attorney, Suzanne Sorenson. Suzanne is everything Kate is not: tall, blond, elegant, ambitious, and ruthless. And now, Suzanne is dead as well, strangled on her late night jog while vacationing with Craig at a vegetarian health resort. Craig is suspected of Suzanne’s murder by the local police and begs Kate to help exonerate him. Kate reluctantly agrees and checks herself into Spa Sante to investigate. Raw vegetables were never so dangerous.