He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good. |
I can't believe I'm saying this, but think I come down on the Microsoft camp. |
In economic and cultural terms, they are missing out in a big way. Going online means paying to tap into Western culture. |
In the rich cities, an Internet user who spends $1 actually gets more out of their experience and finds more Web sites in their language. |
Jane Grigson is the nearest thing that we have on this side of the great green bouillabaisse to M F K Fisher. with learning and wit that are rarely devoted to such a banausic subject as stuffing food down one's cake hole. |
M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing. |
Most people around the world will experience new information technologies through their mobile-phone browsers. Computers are still priced out of reach for most people. |
Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear. |
What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. |
What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes. |