In David Gilet’s The Yellow Dot Plague and Other Tales, the story ‘Fable’ is about Clown and an evening meander through the local market, sampling all manner of food and drink. Clown has eaten a bhang-laced laddoo and smoked a joint, and you know what happens when bhang and marijuana take over your mind, don’t [...]
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Aussie Burger
Posted in australia, books, england, food, tagged books, burger, food, tasmania, tim heald on 14/06/2009 | 1 Comment »
In Tim Heald’s rather pedestrian novel of academic snobbery, long-smouldering revenge, and obscure Tasmanian wines, Death and the Visiting Fellow, a chesty, long-legged and lissome beauty discusses burgers with the visiting Fellow. Instead of the bijou, upmarket, expensive, one-off emporia of the salubrious oases to either side of the highway, these were chain convenience stores [...]
