Epistemographer

Kevin just tagged me with the latest blog meme (actually, I think this one’s been going ‘round for a while) – while it’s kind of fluffy to break my recent blog-silence with something as trivial as a meme, maybe it’ll get the juices flowing again:

1.Grab the book closest to you

Had to reach for the shelf, as I just spent the better part of today reorganizing my home office-area (consider it a bit of purge-cleaning after sending my final manuscript off to MIT Press for copyediting and page proofs earlier this week).

2. Open to page 123, go down to the fifth sentence

Yup.

3. Post the text of next 3 sentences on your blog

“‘The food is unfussy and ingredient-driven, usually constructed around a main course that’s essentially an iealized version of your standard ‘meat and two veg’ combo – one night it might be an aged Niman Ranch shell steak with spring peas and truffled mashed potatoes; another night it might be a Hoffman Farm chicken stuffed with wild mushrooms and greens, served with Chino Ranch carrots , turnips, leeks, and a horseradish sauce; and still another night it might be Laughing Stock Farm pork cooked in the fireplace with cardoon gratin, served with black kale and rosemary roasted potatoes. You might smirk at the menu’s relentless use of proper-noun pedigrees, but the overall Chez Panisse experience is, in a word, unpretentious. Yet, paradoxically, no restaurant in America has inspired, yea, invited more cultuish worship and precocious food-crit overdrive.”

4. Name the book and the author

The United States of Arugula: How we Became a Gourmet Nation, by David Kamp

Guess it’s my turn to point the meme onward: Sam, Sandy, Jeremy

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