The Malaysian Insider :: Books
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| Top chefs to write book on history of modern gastronomy Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:35 AM PDT  A coalition of chefs who call themselves the G9 have announced plans to publish a book on the history of modern gastronomy. — AFP pic At a culinary summit in Tokyo over the weekend, a group of nine chefs who call themselves the G9 committed to publishing a book that will explore the evolution of modern cooking, reported US-based food blog Eater.com. It's a proposal that was first bandied about by chef Joan Roca of El Cellar de Can Roca in Spain at the beginning of the weekend. Towards the end of the summit chefs put flesh to the idea, giving their project a deadline: the publishing date has been set for 2015. El Cellar de Can Roca is ranked the second best restaurant in the world by Restaurant magazine. The focus of this year's summit, organised by the Basque Culinary Centre, which offers degrees in gastronomy and culinary arts, explored the best ways to train the next generation of chefs. Next year, the conference moves to New York, and in 2014 it will travel to Brazil. Chefs from host cities will also be able to invite three additional figures to participate, reports Eater. Plans to pen a textbook on modern gastronomy recall another encyclopedic series which has been called one of the most important cookbooks of all time, Modernist Cuisine, written by former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold. Members of the international advisory board who attended this year's conference in Japan included Alex Atala (Brazil), Dan Barber (US), Ferran Adrià (Spain), Massimo Bottura (Italy), Yukio Hattori (Japan), Gastón Acurio (Peru), Joan Roca (Spain), Sven Elverfeld (Germany) and Harold McGee (US). — AFP-Relaxnews |
| Rowling leaves door ajar to return to ‘Potter world’ Posted: 26 Sep 2012 04:25 PM PDT
Although JK Rowling's first novel tailored for adults is being released this week, she says her next book will likely be a children's book, and in the future she may pen a story related to the Harry Potter universe. "I think it very likely that the next thing I publish will be for kids. I have a children's book that I really like, it's for slightly younger children than the Potter books," Rowling told the BBC in a television interview broadcast yesterday. In one of a handful of appearances to promote "The Casual Vacancy," which hits bookstores worldwide today, Rowling told the BBC: "Truly, where Harry's story is concerned, I'm done. Yet the 47-year-old best-selling British author did not rule out a Potter spin-off, while she was adamant it would never be for commercial reasons. The seven "Harry Potter" books have sold more than 450 million books worldwide. "I have always left the door ajar because I'm not that cruel. If I had a fabulous idea that came out of that world, because I loved writing it, I would do it," she told the BBC. "But I've got to have a great idea, I don't want to go mechanically into that world and pick up odds and ends and glue them together and say 'Here we go, we can sell this'. It would make a mockery of what those books were to me." Were that great idea to come, she said: "I probably would do it. I'm very averse to the prequel/sequel idea. I've never seen it work well in either literature or film. That's a personal preference." Rowling, who started her writing career as a financially struggling, single mother, said while there was clearly "an appetite for eight, nine, ten," Potter novels, she knew she only had enough plot for seven books about Harry's magical adventures. "To go further would have been money for old rope. Couldn't do it. And that's largely why I slapped on that epilogue (in the final 'Harry Potter' novel). (It) says he's leading a quiet life, and he's earned it. He's done," she said of the boy wizard. Rowling said she would have liked more time to work on some of the books. "I had to write on the run and there were times when it was really tough. And I read them, and I think 'Oh God, maybe I'll go back and do a director's cut". I don't know," she said in BBC interview. "But you know what?" she added. "I'm proud I was writing under the conditions under which I was writing. No one will ever know how tough it was at times." In a separate interview with ABC's "Nightline", Rowling revealed that she had signs of obsessive-compulsive behaviour when she was a teenager, and that one of the characters in "The Casual Vacancy" was drawn from her own experiences. "These are things I know from the inside," she said in the interview, some of which was aired on "Good Morning America" yesterday. "When I was in my teens, I had issues with OCD ... checking things, it's very common, double checking, triple checking, it's an anxiety disorder." Rowling has spoken openly in the past about dealing with depression, which she estimated she had not had to deal with for more than a decade. She credited Harry Potter with helping. "Forget the money," she said; it gave her self-respect. "Harry gave me a job that I loved to do more than anything else," she told ABC. — Reuters |
NEW YORK, Sept 27 — Harry is still finished, but do not rule out any return to the Potter world.| You are subscribed to email updates from The Malaysian Insider :: Books To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
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