http://casaveneracion.com/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/ The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home. Sat, 26 May 2012 06:09:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://casaveneracion.com/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-61544 Anthony Bourdain has all the right, and just enough, adjectives and adverbs — A cook's journal Thu, 05 May 2011 09:58:19 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/books-reading/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/#comment-61544 [...] While most of his contemporaries seem to either suffer from a dearth in their food vocabulary or overindulge in whimsical discourse that makes cooking and eating sound so darn cutesy that they are already cloyingly unpalatable, [...] [...] While most of his contemporaries seem to either suffer from a dearth in their food vocabulary or overindulge in whimsical discourse that makes cooking and eating sound so darn cutesy that they are already cloyingly unpalatable, [...]

]]> http://casaveneracion.com/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-61543 Cold soba noodles — Home cooking rocks! Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:05:19 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/books-reading/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/#comment-61543 [...] I’ve bought soba noodles in the past, made some mistakes with the preparation, and wouldn’t have bought them again out of sheer frustration had I not seen Nigella Lawson make a cold soba noodle dish on her TV show. I had forgotten the recipe, decided I could just search the web for a good one, then found an article over the Slashfood detailing Nigella’s recipe and saying it is in her book, Forever Summer. Funny, really, because I’ve had that book for months and never saw the recipe. But then again, that may be because I haven’t read the book in its entirety because I have issues with Nigella’s style of writing. [...] [...] I’ve bought soba noodles in the past, made some mistakes with the preparation, and wouldn’t have bought them again out of sheer frustration had I not seen Nigella Lawson make a cold soba noodle dish on her TV show. I had forgotten the recipe, decided I could just search the web for a good one, then found an article over the Slashfood detailing Nigella’s recipe and saying it is in her book, Forever Summer. Funny, really, because I’ve had that book for months and never saw the recipe. But then again, that may be because I haven’t read the book in its entirety because I have issues with Nigella’s style of writing. [...]

]]> http://casaveneracion.com/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/comment-page-1/#comment-61542 Nigella's pea soup — Home cooking rocks! Mon, 01 Nov 2010 22:13:14 +0000 http://houseonahill.net/books-reading/simpler-language-for-better-understanding/#comment-61542 [...] Lawson has been cooking on television, I have been watching her. I have one of her books but I cringe at her writing so I never bought another. In all the years that I have been watching her cooking shows, there have [...] [...] Lawson has been cooking on television, I have been watching her. I have one of her books but I cringe at her writing so I never bought another. In all the years that I have been watching her cooking shows, there have [...]

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