Comments on: Goodbye Spenser

By: Meals for one « the new f.i.x.

Meals for one « the new f.i.x. — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:05:13 +0000

[...] for one 2010 March 1 by imissyoupenguin I like this blog post by Waiter Rant for its rendering of the quiet, melancholy satisfaction of cooking for yourself. Me, [...]

By: ross brunson

ross brunson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:45:23 +0000

Waiter, love your stuff. I too learned about men cooking from Spenser, I was introduced to the “Godwulf Manuscript” by my aunt a few weeks after it came out, and I was hooked.

Over the years, RBP spread the word about men cookin more than just about any fictional book author in history, and in SUCH and accessible way, as a PART of manhood, instead of a SUBSITUTE for it.

Goodbye Robert B. Parker, those of us with troubled childhoods and a passion for cooking salute you.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:37:41 +0000

I thought the recipe sounded familiar. But I had no idea that Robert Parker had died. Early Autumn was one of my favorites of his, as well.

Thank you for this essay.

By: Ericka

Ericka — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:13:16 +0000

well said. his books are old and cherished friends, and the idea that there won’t be any more is deeply saddening.

By: Vincent Eagan

Vincent Eagan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:59:42 +0000

You know, we hear about celebrities dying all the time, and to be honest, it really never bothers me much. I didn’t know them and I guess in essence I can’t say they really touched my life. The only time a death of someone I didn’t know really caused any (personal) mourning to me was when I read a few years back about Paul Zindel dying. He was a great author, and wrote a lot of “coming of age” novels that I read when I was growing up.

I understand the mourning that one has at the death of a favorite author.