Cookbooks — by my Indianapolis correspondent

Late last evening he filed the following dispatch, which appears unedited and unexpurgated.

Not one word has been omitted.

Cookbooks

Hey — I don't know if you cook or not, but I found this over on slashfood the other day:

"I Am Almost Always Hungry"

Great book... killer photos. I don't think I could make half the dishes in there, but I'm going to try.... Picked it up from amazon for $2 used and spent the last few hours reading though it and trying to figure out what to try first.

Interestingly, the forward is written by Jay McInerny, writer of the great wine book Bacchus and Me_. (Oh yeah, he also wrote something called _Bright Lights Big City_ ) Then again, his best role was in Brett Easton Ellis' Lunar Park even if it was entirely fictional....

In keeping with the stream of conscious mailing... listening to Duran Duran's latest album Red Carpet Massacre... Skin Diver is playing and it is both classic DD and modern hip-hop in one... even with Timbalaan's rap in there, I could totally hear this in the 80s... maybe not played over the iphone though. Ok, just gives it the temporal roots in 2008 much like Hungry Like The Wolf is totally 1982 and to listen to it properly you need vinyl and an album sleeve as big as your head. Eff'n best album of 2007 and it was just passed over by everyone....

Ok, I am totally almost always hungry like a wolf and Bacchus is calling again, so I must take sacrament again lest I change allegiances and bow to the god of porcelain later this evening (much like after watching Cloverfield yesterday).