J. Rayner; Heston; citas

Recibo un corrreo de Jay Rayner, en él me cuenta:


“..My job is to write, not to know stuff about food (though, being a greedy man, I do know a lot). Or to put it another way, nobody reads my journalism because of what I know about food. They read me because of how I write.”

“…My column is about 20% of my income. The rest comes from general feature writing/ books/ TV etc. And it has taken me 20 years to get here. There are no easy solutions.”

“…Long before I was a restaurant critic, I was a general journalist. I wrote about everything from murder and terrorism, through politics, social affairs and the latest film and books. I started in student journalism and then worked my way up, by offering ideas to newspapers.”


Veo un programa de Heston Blumenthal en el que, para crear la cena perfecta de navidad, viaja hasta el medio oriente en busca de oro, incienso y mirra. Habla de colores, aromas, texturas, crear el entorno. Llega a construir unos platos de cuero.


Me dan un consejo: ofrecer fechas concretas para realizar los encuentros, no dejarlo abierto a cuando ellos puedan, La gente, aquí, va resolviendo lo inmediato. Si ofrezco mi entera disponibilidad a cuando ellos puedan, los asuntos pasan a quedar siempre pendientes.

Un recuerdo, y un tributo, para Jhony por todo lo que nos enseñó, incluso, de nosotros mismos.