Entries from June 2008

June 22, 2008

On Menus, Spelling, and Translation

In an entertaining article in the Washington Post last week by Jane Black she discussed how much spelling and grammar mistakes on restaurant menus bother her. Here’s her fantasy:
I enter a restaurant, order and sweetly ask the waiter if I can “hold on to the menu” during dinner. Then, using a distinctive purple pen, I [...]

June 11, 2008

Book Reviews

Food Wine Budapest doesn’t officially come out until next week (Tuesday to be exact), and it has already gotten a few nice reviews. One of my favorite websites, Chow.com has written it up, and so has author/journalist John Mariani. In fact, Mariani has listed it as one of the “best food and drink books [...]