RecipeMuncher

A few days ago I shared a recipe from my Italian-Austrian friend, Annalisa and today I’d like to share a recipe from a Chinese friend, Qian.
I met Qian on a bus in Finland.  She coincidently asked me directions to the exact street I was heading to and then as I was walking her there we discovered that her [...]

I started reading a new fiction book I borrowed from the library, THE GARGOYLE by Andrew Davidson very late Saturday night and was only able to finish up to page 106. To my surprise when I resumed reading the book the next morning, the next 3 pages are all about delicious food, not recipes, just food that the main characters are having.

Let me explain why I was surprised: the book is not a travel or food memoir. It is the story of a male porn star driving while drugged and drunk who got into a fiery car crash burning most of himself. His skin reconstruction procedure was described in a graphic stomach-turning manner that you could almost feel his pain. He started planning his elaborate suicide which was quickly abandoned when a fellow patient, a multi-tattooed schizophrenic sculptress of gargoyles and groteques, from the psychiatric ward cam…