Halfway through Slipstream, her intense, poetic, and candid memoir of her father, Rachel Manley referred, very much in passing, to her own first marriage in 1971. “I was briefly married to someone I had known for only ten days,” she wrote back in 2000. “I would pay for this when I found myself…
James Chatto
James Chatto is a restaurant critic, author, and food and wine writer. His new book, Acquired Tastes: The Lives and Recipes of Eight Culinary Ambassadors, is due out in April.
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A man walks into a restaurant and sits down expectantly, but instead of a charming server bearing a menu, there’s a QR code glued to the table. With a sigh, he gets out his phone. . . . This depressing dystopian scene has become an increasingly frequent reality since COVID‑19, but however hygienic and handy QR codes may…