Posted 7:16 AM by Marco

I have been in town lately, and have been making slow, but steady progress returning my apartment to a condition that would allow me to entertain houseguests. In the process, I have learned that a Spartan apartment does not hide dirt very well. Also, I returned to reading books, only partly to excuse myself from cleaning. After months on the road, I finally finished The Year 1000: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the First Millennium, and just started Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, by Anthony Bourdain, the author of "Don't Eat Before Reading This", an expose in the New Yorker. Think of it as The Jungle for modern foodies.