Read Lost Soldiers or Shut UP

Criticizing a book you haven't read is an absolute joke. No one is qualified to make a statement about a book they haven't bothered to read.

That's like Raymond Sokolov writing something like this but - oops - never setting foot in the restaurant!

"Dramatic is the green-tea and lime mousse, for which pressurized essences of tea and lime are pumped out of siphons into a bowl of steaming liquid nitrogen. The cold 'poaches' the mousses instantly, turning them into clouds of pure airy flavor. Or perhaps you would prefer something straightforward, like a soft-boiled egg in an egg cup. At The Fat Duck, this means three raffine layers - langoustine cream, quail-egg jelly and pea puree with a strip of sauteed duck skin standing up in the faux egg.

Main courses, while not so radical, continue the prestidigitation. Veal kidney is cooked in its own fat, pretending it is a Big Mac by being served with fries, ketchup, and a sauce 'mac-vin.' On the $150-a-person tasting menu, the audacity level rises, as if the chef is daring you that you WILL like sardine-on-toast sorbet."

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