6/30/2023 0 Comments Eat a peach by david chang![]() ![]() ![]() While teaching English in a backwater town, he experienced the highs of his first full-blown manic episode, and began to think that the cooking and sharing of food could give him both purpose and agency in his life.įull of grace, candor, grit, and humor, Eat a Peach chronicles Chang’s switchback path. Graduating college aimless and depressed, he fled the States for Japan, hoping to find some sense of belonging. It would have been impossible to know it at the time-and certainly Chang would have bet against himself-but he, who had failed at almost every endeavor in his life, was about to become one of the most influential chefs of his generation, driven by the question, “What if the underground could become the mainstream?”Ĭhang grew up the youngest son of a deeply religious Korean American family in Virginia. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving ramen and pork buns to a mix of fellow restaurant cooks and confused diners whose idea of ramen was instant noodles in Styrofoam cups. In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan’s East Village. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Fortune, Parade, The New York Public Library, Garden & Gun ![]() From the chef behind Momofuku and star of Netflix’s Ugly Delicious-an intimate account of the making of a chef, the story of the modern restaurant world that he helped shape, and how he discovered that success can be much harder to understand than failure. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Saga, Volume 3 by Brian K. Vaughan![]() ![]() ![]() It felt like the audience for creator-owned comics had started to contract or outright disappear, and a lot of my friends at other companies tried to dissuade me from launching something original in that kind of conservative marketplace, especially a story that had naked full-frontal robots instead of superheroes.Īnd while I usually tackle the letter column by myself, we turned this edition into a really cool creator roundtable with Fiona, our mysterious letterer/designer Fonografiks and our "coordinator" Eric Stephenson. Before we launched "Saga" a few years ago, I'd been out of comics for a while, and my previous publisher Wildstorm had just folded. ![]() I've said this before, but I seriously thought we'd be cancelled by our sixth issue. How does it feel to have something like this? Did you and Fiona ever think you'd be holding this?īrian K. Plus, check out an exclusive first look at the wraparound cover for "Saga" #25.ĬBR News: Brian, let's start by talking about the gorgeous hardcover book. With so many exciting developments in the series, Vaughan spent some time catching up with CBR News on everything from the curation process of the hardcover - including controversy around the breast feeding displayed on its cover - to the disappointment that may lie ahead for Marko and Alana fans waiting for reconciliation. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Stephen king fire![]() ![]() It’s a feature with a stellar cast, starring the likes of Drew Barrymore, George C. The filmmaker, coming off the controversial Class of 1984, met with Universal and said that he could turn Firestarter into a movie for $10 million, and in May 1984 that vision arrived on the big screen (albeit about $5 million over budget). Had the studio had a time machine, executives could have seen that the 1982 movie would become one of the most beloved horror titles of all time, but alas…Įnter director Mark L. ![]() ![]() As adapted by screenwriter Bill Phillips, the film would have required Universal Pictures to pony up a $20 million budget – and while that investment was considered substantial all by itself, Carpenter was also coming off the tragic box office flop that was The Thing. Originally it was supposed to be director John Carpenter who told the story of young Charlie McGee on the big screen (this being before Christine was even a book let alone a movie), but it was a project that quickly hit a brick wall. Considering this, it’s fitting that the process of bringing Firestarter to the big screen wasn’t precisely easy either. ![]() |