Ask Kate Reid, the former Formula One aerospace engineer who simply set out to create the perfect croissant. She is now the queen of the damn-near-close-to-perfect croissant, sent out daily through her Lune bakeries.
Sourdough may be a star carb but watch the ingredients
Story about hard-boiled eggs - A cautionary tale about algorithmic perfection?
James Kelman profile
In the Irish Times Éamon Sweeney profiles James Kelman: ‘Irish writers get cushy jobs because they never challenge a single damn thing’ [updated: which, as a reader points out is actually from quite a few years back ! -- but still of interest].
Apparently the Booker Prize winner "currently doesn't have a publisher" -- and he notes:
When it came to 1994 and the Booker Prize, the Director of Dillon's said they wouldn't stock it. They were the second largest bookseller after Waterstone's at the time. I've been on Random House and Penguin, but no one publishes me at the moment. I can't blame them, because I used to be a salesman.(Of course, we know what became of Dillon's .....)
Naveen Kishore Q & A
At Kitaab they have a Q & A with the Seagull Books-publisher, “One doesn’t always write only to be published.”- Naveen Kishore (Poet, Artist, Publisher, and Writer).
At Kitaab they have a Q & A with the Seagull Books-publisher, “One doesn’t always write only to be published.”- Naveen Kishore (Poet, Artist, Publisher, and Writer).
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