Sexy chefs and a roadkill restaurant

With Tommy Gilhooly and Ian Kelly

If you read Ian Kelly’s piece on what it’s like to live with a biographical subject for decades — in his case, the ‘first celebrity chef’ Antonin Carême — you’ll find mention of a ‘fellow biographer who carried a passport-sized photo of a biographical subject in a wallet, long before actually starting work on a book’. Gentle reader, I have a confession …