Cooking Up a Fuss

[12 October 2006]

by Raphaël Costambeys-Kempczynski

The arrival of the celebrity TV chef is parallel to the rise of the techno DJ: both feed upon our hedonistic fin-de-siècle desires. The rave scene gave us mass love-ins driven by repetitive beats and illicit substances. The chefs do it by teaching us how to knock up cordon bleu dishes in only 20 minutes between the moment we get home from work and the moment we head out again to get blotto.

aaaaaaaah Monsieur Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski.... notre prof de “Traduction journalistique"… Qui aurait cru?! The Dr of pop!
C’est marrant comme cet article m’en rappelle un autre étudié en cours.
J’ai bien aimé l’article concernant les graffitis dans le métro parisien. Dommage qu’on ne l’ait pas étudié ce semestre.

Comment by Sakr Nermine from France — November 13, 2006 @ 9:50 am

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