Love this! I’m Harrison, an ex fine dining line cook. My stack "The Secret Ingredient" adapts hit restaurant recipes (mostly NYC and L.A.) for easy home cooking.
Kingsley Amis would lay down a foundation of a pint of sweet and dry cider mixed, then start on the double Dewars. After about the fourth of those, his conversation got really interesting. Incoherence kicked in about the ninth./ Philip Oakes once wrote of working with Tony Hancock "About eleven, he would say 'I think a touch of the Infuriator'. Out would come the brandy, and the day was drowned and lost."
No really? He always struck me as the perfect gent. Perhaps you caught him on a bad day. Have heard very mixed things about Chancellor though, who again was always very patient and encouraging to me.
The Oldie still strikes me as a cosy little mafia. I don’t feel very welcome as a paying customer let alone an aspiring contributor. I have had a number of contributions in Private Eye over many years and it has always been civilised.
"The heads are usually from a publishing background rather than outside corporate types."
this gives me hope while simultaneously pressuring me to get writing before the inevitable happens.
Apparently it might be too late though there are still some good editors about.
Love this! I’m Harrison, an ex fine dining line cook. My stack "The Secret Ingredient" adapts hit restaurant recipes (mostly NYC and L.A.) for easy home cooking.
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Kingsley Amis would lay down a foundation of a pint of sweet and dry cider mixed, then start on the double Dewars. After about the fourth of those, his conversation got really interesting. Incoherence kicked in about the ninth./ Philip Oakes once wrote of working with Tony Hancock "About eleven, he would say 'I think a touch of the Infuriator'. Out would come the brandy, and the day was drowned and lost."
Jeremy Lewis was very rude to me when I had the temerity to submit an article to The Oldie. Francis Wheen has always been a perfect saint.
No really? He always struck me as the perfect gent. Perhaps you caught him on a bad day. Have heard very mixed things about Chancellor though, who again was always very patient and encouraging to me.
The Oldie still strikes me as a cosy little mafia. I don’t feel very welcome as a paying customer let alone an aspiring contributor. I have had a number of contributions in Private Eye over many years and it has always been civilised.
Some magazines can be very cliquey. I've written for the Spectator for over 10 years and never felt part of the gang
Wonderful! (Thank you for the link too.)
No problem. Really enjoyed your article.