…that household name, Elfriede Jelinek! Well, at least I was half-right in my predictions, when I said that it was not unlikely that nobody among those mentioned as possibilities would actually win. After a perusal of Jelinek’s bio on the Nobel site, however, I was surprised to discover that I had a glancing, if indirect, […]
The biggest gong in writing, the Nobel Prize for Literature, is due to be announced tomorrow. The winners seem to oscillate between some Great Name whose major work is behind them (V.S Naipul, for example) and a figure few in the Anglophone world has ever heard off. (When Saul Bellow was awarded the prize in […]
The words of The Intelligent Face of Fascism (Gianfranco Fini), have sent this secular Monkey, not without a certain amount of indignation, scrambling towards the Catholic Encylopedia. TIFOF, speaking at the annual celebration of the feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in Assisi, the city of Peace, took the opportunity to take back the symbol […]
Say what you like about Martin Amis’s novels–and most critics did when Yellow Dog was released last year–but his occasional journalism, the commissioned “colour” pieces usually contain a clutch of phrasings that reveal an aesthetic sensibility absent in most others’ hack work. In today’s Guardian, he finds an accommodating subject for his style in the […]
Simple, delicious, healthy and cheap. What you need (for two people) : 4 turkey breast slices50 gr. diced mortadella50 gr. diced cheddar or emmanthal cheese olive oilsaltpepperoregano How you do it: On the turkey slices (well flattened), lay down a mix of mortadella and cheese cubes. If you don't like or you can't find mortadella, […]
To give an Italian touch to your Halloween, try this recipes for delicate ravioli filled with pumpkin. They are at their best with a pork sausage dressing, or more simply with butter, Parmesan cheese and sage. This dish can be found in many localities of Pianura Padana, the flat Po valley in Northern Italy, and […]
We couldn't avoid having one or two pumpkin recipes in this October edition of Three Monkeys Online! I chose this spicy chutney to celebrate the very Irish feast of Halloween. When I prepare this during the summer I replace the jam with fresh sweet apricots.It's delicious served with strong hard cheeses, to accompany simple chicken […]
In medieval times, it was said that the poet or songwriter was a man of great power. If a king angered him, he would pen a scathing lyric about the unfortunate monarch, and show it to everyone. Obviously, his majesty could then have relieved the poet of his head, but by then the lyric would […]
Globalisation is a popular buzzword at the moment. When you hear it, maybe you think of economic theory (you need to get out more). Maybe you think of the anti-globalisation riots that follow the G7 meetings from city to city (you need to calm down). But globalisation is not just a fancy economic theory. In […]