Blogging About Blogs
At the risk of perpetuating the (not entirely unjustified) perception of blogsphere as echo chamber, some recent blog posts caught my fancy. I want to share them with you, oh loyal readers.
A big thank you to Shuna Fish Lydon for adding Grumpy Glutton to her blog roll on Eggbeater. At the risk of sounding like a suck-up, even before she linked, a post of hers really grabbed me. Titled Chef Owners Who Work The Line, I especially love the part where she describes an incident at the French Laundry where the sous chef told everyone to step back from the line and did all of their jobs, better and faster than they could, by himself.
Michael Procopio has been the target of my grumpiness, but I enjoy reading his blog when he writes about subjects other than Unhealthy San Francisco. His recent anti-PDA/cellphone rant was classic, especially the Phil Hartman-Julianne Moore story about midway through the screed. Personally, I'd have been angling for Julianne Moore's cell number, rather than settling for Hartman's, but that's just me.
There are few things I'm more passionate about than food but one of them is football, especially of the professional variety and very especially of the Pittsburgh Steelers variety. I love to read good writing on almost any subject and when it's about subjects near and dear to my heart (football and food, for two), I'm hooked. IMO, the finest football writer on this planet is Peter King of Sports Illustrated. He's also a coffee fanatic (especially Starbucks, I know that many coffee nerds will look down their noses at us, but I'm with Peter on this subject) and works food into his football writing in quirky ways (each summer, he tours a number of teams' training camps and, in addition to giving readers the skinny on how the teams are shaping up for the coming season, he grades the food made available to camp visitors). King recently visited Afghanistan on a USO tour with several NFL players and wrote about it for SI. Three things struck me about King's reports: the bravery of our young men and women fighting for our country halfway around the world, the stereotype-defying intelligence of the players who accompanied King and the great food that the U.S. military can put on soldiers' (and their visitors') plates in a God-forsaken place such as Afghanistan. Unfortunately, the SI web masters didn't do a good job of linking the various posts about King's visits into a coherent whole so you have to poke around his archive a bit to find all of them.
Happy reading!
Thanks (again and again) for the kind words, sir.
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