Fast Food
FAST Food: A rash confession of prejudices.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that attention spans are not what they used to be. In recognition of this undeniable fact, we have decided to offer a series of capsule reviews for those of our readers too restless or too busy to exploit or enjoy the essay format that appears elsewhere at britishfoodinamerica. FAST Food offers assessments of authors, books, journalists, public figures and restaurants. We have been selective if not systematic in our subjects. Followers of fashion will be incapable of confining their pursuit of the moment to things British, so FAST Food in turn is not confined to our usual range of topics.
To streamline these reviews, and so reduce the amount of time required to utilize them, we thoughtfully have dispensed with fripperies like addresses and contact numbers because we realize that our more frantic readers will Google any entry that interests them anyway. Readers interested in this feature of bfia, in particular the fashionable and metrosexual among us who have high disposable incomes (or had, and have replaced them with a quaint if ruinous infatuation with debt since the onset of recession), will need to return to it frequently, both because of the rapid lurches in public opinion about the subjects under review and because we cannot guarantee how long any particular item will remain onsite at FAST Food.
This feature of bfia is unlikely to appeal to published sociologists and Marxist historians, who prefer instead to read and write long, impenetrable heaps of jargon conveying minimal information of limited practical use.
Authors of British Cookbooks:
Elisabeth Ayrton
Jane Grigson
Sophie Grigson
Food Writers:
Bill Buford
Philippa Davenport
Betty Fussell
H.P. Lovecraft
Food Columnists:
At The Boston Globe :
Devra First
At the Financial Times :
Philippa Davenport (emeritus?)
Nicholas Lander
At The Independent :
At the Irish Times :
Theodora FitzGibbon (emeritus)
At New York Magazine/Grubstreet :
At The New York Times :
Mark Bittman
Melissa Clark
Nathalie Jordi
Sam Sifton
At The Times (London) :
Lindsey Bareham
On British Food:
Elisabeth Ayrton
Eric Blair
Elizabeth David
Theodora FitzGibbon
Jane Grigson
Mark Hix
On French Food:
The britishfoodinamerica site does not ordinarily address French food.
On Italian Food:
Pellegrino Artusi
the ‘Barefoot Contessa’
Guiliano Bugialli
Elizabeth David
Johanne Killeen and George Germon
Franco and Margaret Romagnoli
Historians:
Tim Blanning
Kate Colquohon
David Cordingly
David Brion Davis
John Keegan
Gilly Lehmann
Edmund S. Morgan
Marcus Rediker
N.A.M. Rodger
Larry Sabato
Baroque Architects:
Balthasar Gerbier
Nicholas Hawksmoor
Roger Pratt
William Talman
John Vanbrugh
William Winde
Christopher Wren
The First Chicago School of Architecture:
Dankmar Adler
Daniel Burnham
Edward LeBaron Jenny
Henry Hobson Richardson
John Root
Louis Sullivan
Frank Lloyd Wright
Restaurants:
In Boston (Massachusetts):
The Fish Camp
The Blue Room(Cambridge)
Jacob Wirth
In Houston, Texas: (of all places)
In New Orleans:
Bayona
MiLa
In New York:
The Breslin (bar)
Cookshop
The Harrison
The Oyster Bar at Grand Central - Saloon
The Oyster Bar at Grand Central
Trestle on 10th
In Philadelphia:
Bookbinders
Chifa
Oyster Bar
Standard Tap
Tangerine
In London:
Baltic
Andrew Edmunds
Moro
St. John Bread & Wine
The Square
the bfia Wall of SHAME