My Dining Hell

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My Dining Hell

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4197-347-9

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241973479

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 96

Fecha de publicación: 2015-02-26

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

My Dining Hell

Editorial: riverhead_books

ISBN: 978-11-0160-572-1

ISBN sin guiones: 9781101605721

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 77

Fecha de publicación: 2012-06-01

Idioma: inglés (Estados Unidos)

My Dining Hell

Editorial: Penguin

ISBN: 978-02-4196-320-3

ISBN sin guiones: 9780241963203

Tipo de cubierta: Softcover

Páginas: 50

Fecha de publicación: 2012-05-25

Idioma: inglés (Reino Unido)

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My Dining Hell

Jay Rayner

Primera publicación: 2012-05-25

I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out in the bush. They claim otherwise, of course. Readers like to present themselves as private arbiters of taste; as people interested in the good stuff. I'm sure they are. I'm sure they really do care whether the steak was served au point as requested or whether the soufflé had achieved a certain ineffable lightness. And yet, when I compare dinner to bodily fluids, the room to an S & M chamber in Neasden (only without the glamour or class), and the bill to an act of grand larceny, why, then the baying crowd is truly happy. Don't believe me? Then why, presented with the chance to buy this ebook filled with accounts of twenty restaurants - their chefs, their owners, their poor benighted front of house staff - getting a complete stiffing courtesy of the sort of vitriolic bloody-curdling review which would make the victims call for their mummies, did you seize it with both hands?