Mark Scarbrough
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Cookbook author and food journalist |
| Location | Colebrook, Connecticut |
| Introduction | I'm half of a cookbook-writing team, a bemused Texan who finds himself in New England, a dumbfounded progressive, a former academic wannabe, and a full-time writer, working for most of the glossy food mags and a few of the websites. The other half of this team, Bruce Weinstein, is the chef in the duo, the Jewish agnostic who has his most profound moments in church, the life-long New Yorker who wanted to leave the city for all this rural America thing, and also my partner, my better half, my spouse, whatever word works these days. And then there's a Collie named Dreydl. |
| Interests | Food, of course. And lots of it. But also arty, literary, and musical stuff. Right now, I'm obsessed with Stravinsky, John Adams (particularly the early dalliance with minimalism), Shostakovich, early phase Henry James, Dante (particularly the Purgatorio), and Mark Twain. Considering getting obsessed with Proust but weighing my options. |
| Favorite Music | That Stravinsky thing (as above), but also Ravel and Bartok in good measure, plus lots of jazz (Mary McPartland is a god--so is Serge Forte), some vocal divas from the past like Margaret Whiting (but only in the listen-less-eat-more dinner party kind of way). Basically, there's Bach and then there's Stravinsky with an unfortunate, three-hundred year mistake called The Enlightenment between them. |
| Favorite Books | The usual suspects: Faulkner, O'Connor, Welty, Henry James (Young Harry, James I, and The Old Pretender), Wharton, Woolf, Trollope, G. Eliot (not that T. S. moron), E. Dickinson, Yeats. As for people actually doing this archaic thing called writing now: S. Rushdie, P. Roth, I. McEwan, A. Brookner, L. Moore, K. Atkinson. |