Okay,

[kasche]

so this is mostly to let you know that I am knees deep in the weeds here*. In other words, thank you so much for all your comments! Both here and on DA! Thank you! But I'll probably get around to answer you all sometime next year.

And I'm not even taking into account my flist. I'm not even. I'm not even checking it either, really, because then I really would spend the whole day doing nothing but.

BUT THANK YOU. ♥ ♥ ♥

(And sorry!!!)



*_ Yes. That's kitchen-lingo. And there is probably about one (1) person who caught it. Or maybe two? Del, can I start pestering you about have you read Liquor yet? And Hannah! You have read it! Oh, I knew there was something important to talk about that I was forgetting! :D

(Yes, the Liquor series is something important to talk about. Oh shut up. :P)

Comments

[croupier.livejournal.com]

I may or may not have finished Liquor, Prime, and Soul Kitchen already.

Also, as someone who lives in Dallas, the city where a fair chunk of Prime takes place, whoo boy do I have a lot to say about that book. Brite was spot-on about the part of Dallas food culture she focused on; I'd have liked to see more of the psychotic dieting Dallasites engage in, but that's probably a more feminine thing (even the gay men here aren't as body-conscious as the women). The sad thing is that most of the best parts of Dallas food culture are entirely underground and/or home-based and therefore hard for a visitor to encounter, let alone write about. I wrote a brief dossier on Dallas food culture here (http://croupier.livejournal.com/248618.html); it's worth a read if you want some native insight into the backdrop against which Prime takes place. Most of the gold in that entry is in my comments to stickykeys633, although the blog I wrote about (DallasFood.org) is definitely worth checking out. I reread DallasFood.org's Noka series at least once every six months or so.

(And man, when Rickey was hating Dallas and wanting to be in New Orleans where things made sense, I've been feeling that way since 1996.)

[kasche.livejournal.com]

My heart gave a little happy thump at that. (And that is how sad I get when I'm obsessed.) You're only lacking The Value of X and D*u*c*k now! ♥

You know some of the best things those books have done for me? They've made me curious about food. I've enjoyed your comment, I'm checking out the links you gave me, and more than once, when I've been in restaurants lately, I kind of wanted to go and sneak a peek in the kitchens, see for myself what it's really like.

(Aw. I can't really relate, but that was one of my favorite passages.)