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Finkella

Finkella

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I am above all else a reader,whether The Portable Dorothy Parker or The Modern Baker. I am always in the middle of two to three books with four waiting to move up my list. I love to cook, bake and make every recipe I can get my hands on. If I'm not in a park absorbed in a book, I am in the kitchen making a mess.
  • New York, NY, USA
  • member since September 29, 2009

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  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    What do they say is the most important thing about pastry? Dry hands? You'll be able to tell me! When in Paris, I love a fresh croissant and loads of butter with my coffee for breakfast!

    TALES OF THE JAZZ AGE is Scott Fitzgerald's volume of short stories containing 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'. Very definitely worth reading In the main, they hold you in a claw-like grasp - you're dying to know where you are going. A lot of them are to a large extent autobiographical for Fitzgerald, so you shall definitely know more of the man when you finish. When I think of how he portrays his Princeton years, I can't help but link him to Hubbell Gardiner's years at University in THE WAY WE WERE - one of my favourite films.

    Incidentally, it took me a while to realize how Meryll Streep, a woman of average height, was plaing a 'giantess'! Americans I work with assured me, that her seemingly hammed-up portrayal of Julia Childs was actually the way Childs behaved! Many people have told me that they dislike Julie intensely. I actually found her quite a hard-working attractive character.

    Regards, Michael

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    How is the Baking going anyway??????????????? Lasy year, I watched Julie & Julia and thought of you!

    Earlier in the week, I enjoyed a great Cheese and Onion Tart!

    Regards, Michael.

    posted 1 year ago. ( send a note )
  • Jason R.

    Jason R. says

    Partially a nod to Updike, partially a nod to A&P itself- a dying iconic chain that I worked for as a teenager, and partially to New Orleans where that particular store is located on Bourbon Street (at least I think it is still there). Did Dorothy Parker write the short story called "Like That"?

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Jason R.

    Jason R. says

    Thanks for adding me as a friend. I like your avatar- it reminds me of a 1920's flapper.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    Nick is the quintessential 'Good Guy' as well as being the isolated, independant observer - 'the Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony'. Although we all know in our own worlds (and dislike) the 'Toms', the 'Daisies' (maybe we pity her........) and the 'Jordans' (they're all around us - just look at your 'friends' and acquaintances), yet we all identify with Nick......... I wonder why?

    Most authors appear in their own books (they say that Daisy is Fitzgerald's lost love, Ginevra King......... I wonder if that's true?), is Nick really Fitzgerald?

    I sometimes think of Fitzgerald's THE DIAMOND AS BIG AS THE RITZ when I read THE GREAT GATSBY - there are elements there...........

    I think a word for Fitzgerald's writing in THE GREAT GATSBY is ...................... pellucid.

    Your Avatar is positively Gatsbian............. Do you know Radio Dismuke and their music of this period? http://www.dismuke.org/radio/

    Regards, Michael

    Regards, Michael

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • adaimlerdoublesix

    adaimlerdoublesix says

    All those reviews and you only joined yesterday?????????

    You're a better man than I am!

    Do you identify with anybody in THE GREAT GATSBY?

    Regards, Michael

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )

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