George Pelecanos is a tough writer of tough noir with an occasional nod to his Greek heritage. In A Firing Offense, his protagonist Nicky Stefanos wants to feed his lady some Mediterranean love (and food): Most of the good fish had been picked over by that time of day. I bought some squid, at one [...]
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Tough Greek
Posted in books, food, greece, usa, tagged crime, crime fiction, food, george pelecanos, greece, greek food, sea food on 05/10/2010 | Leave a Comment »
When Seeking The Last Cato, Stop For Some Greek
Posted in books, food, greece, spain, tagged books, food, greece, matilde asensi, spain on 20/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
In Matilde Asensi’s nonsensical novel (The Last Cato) of the search for the stolen remnants of the True Cross, the protagonists, a Swiss Guard, a Coptic archaeologist, and an uptight Sicilian nun stop for a bit of food en route to their latest test. We were invited to a magnificent lunch in the hotel banquet [...]
Stew Away
Posted in books, food, france, greece, norway, scotland, spain, thailand, usa on 07/05/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure, a snobbish voluptuary Tarquin Winot waxes eloquently about all manner of food. His life, he likes to observe, is best represented in vignettes of gastronomy. And so nearly every page of the copy I recently borrowed from the local library has dark streaks - left, I imagine, by the [...]
Stuffed Vegetables Constantinople Style
Posted in books, food, greece on 20/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
In Zone Defence, Petros Markaris deftly avoids the usual gastronomic trap that this blog is all about, and cunningly places a recipe for Inspector Haritos’s favourite dish at the end of the book. That is not to say that food is not mentioned at all in this very funny crime caper. Indeed, there’s a whole [...]
