Cheever Bio Wins NBCC Award
Congrats to my dear friend Blake Bailey, whose
bio of John Cheever, won best bio of 2009 from the National Book Critics Circle on Thursday.
I mentioned this bio when it came out. It’s fabulous, highly recommended. Blake also wrote a bio of Richard Yates, which is every bit as good, if not better. I have no doubt his Charles Jackson bio (
which he talks about on the WSJ blog) will be the same, even if
Jackson is all but forgotten. ()
Michael Symon and I At Jo-Beth Legacy Thurs at 7
Michael Symon and I will be at
Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Legacy Thursday from 7 to 9. He no-doubt wants help flogging
that damned book of his. I’ll be out front selling out of my van. If it’s good enough for Bourdain, it’s good enough for me. ()
Cleveland Converts Mall into Farm
Cleveland’s
Galleria mall has turned indoor vacant retail space into farmland. Great idea more cities can adopt! ()
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Ratio App
The best-selling cookbook, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking, by me, Michael Ruhlman, is now an iPhone app that will help you calculate amounts of ingredients in all the fundamental culinary preparations. When you know a ratio, you don’t know a recipe, you know 1,000. And this application does all the calculating for you.
What You Get:
–THE 32 CRITICAL RATIOS that form the backbone of the culinary arts, with instructions: doughs, batters, meat preparations, custards, sauces (pasta dough and pizza dough, sponge cake and pancakes, fritters and crepes, stocks and sauces, crème caramel and chocolate sauce.
–A CALCULATOR that figures out how much of each ingredient you need, no matter how many or how few people you want to serve.
–An OUNCES-TO-GRAMS CONVERTER (ratios work no matter what unit you choose to use!).
–DELICIOUS VARIATIONS FOR RECIPES on all the ratios, ideas for the creation of new dishes according to your tastes.
–An easy way to STORE YOUR OWN RECIPES and notes that you’ve created from the basic ratios.
–Quick fun ways to SHARE what your cooking with your fellow cooks, on Facebook and on Twitter.
–Ratios is also a great way to understand and TWEAK YOUR OWN RECIPES, to help you make your pancakes even fluffier, your pizza dough crisper, your crème brulee richer.
TECH SUPPORT — If you’re having problems with your application, send us an email at ratioapp@ruhlman.com and we’ll get back to you. (And for those who don’t use an iPhone or iTouch, well get to work soon on other formats if the iPhone app proves successful enough!)