Showing posts with label Basil Fawlty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Basil Fawlty. Show all posts

Monday 6 July 2020

Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)

Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2019 (17 to 24 October)
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4 July

Lessons from Booth and Cleese on Government (3rd edn)








Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Duck's off!

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2012
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29 August

Our own gourmet night, when a friend and I visited an upmarket Indian restaurant that had shunned dark furnishings in favour of a light and bright decor (replete with shining statues of violins and saxes), was nothing like Basil's.

Except that, when I saw the list of tandoori items available, I could not resist - because I had never experienced - duck done in a tandoor oven.

Now I know, because I have no reason to believe that it was not a perfectly good initial piece of poultry, that the transformation that the process works on chicken (or lamb) is not suited to that very different commodity of duck: the effect, as characterized by my friend when he sampled a couple of pieces, was to render the dense flesh more like liver.

So it was alchemically no longer duck, but more like (though not sufficiently so to repulse me) a cheaper offering: gold into lead, one rather feared, for all that the experiment was worth...