One of the great joys is to go to a restaurant you can’t afford and sit and eat with a book.Restaurant critic and author A.A. Gill, quoted in this New York Times piece by Leannie Shapton about a book as the perfect dinner companion.
I've always felt that this is the way to go.
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I usually would not eat while reading, because I'm scared of getting pasta sauce or worse on my book.
But last week books were good dining companions when I walked in alone into Chinese restaurants in Shanghai, where the only language of communication was mandarin, and I could only speak 2 words of it.
After ordering through hand gestures (the menus were in mandarin with pictures) I dove straight into a book, and enjoyed having one thing around me which I could make complete sense of.
It would be so odd.. imagine sitting at Claridge's and eating and reading lol :)
Or am I wrong, and it's now de rigeur for everyone to read there ? :")
I'm fine reading while eating... but at restaurants, it's often more at lunch than dinner as some restaurants have been known to *dim* their lights too much for one's reading pleasure during dinner time... :S
YSTL - yes, doesn't that just drive you mad!
Bring your own reading light, clipped over the top edge of the book.
always pragmatic Chet :-P
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