Weekend links.

Trying to catch up ahead of the next week (and the week after).  I've just returned from a wonderful night at the Waldorf Astoria RAK (the rooms are ginormous), so I've got some writing to do.  :)

• Novels as guidebooks.  The author in me loves this.
• Inside a chef's fridge (c'mon, you know you want to look).
• From LA Weekly, where to eat food from the 7 banned countries. #resist
• Haruki Murakami discusses the metaphysics of food.
• A prosecco festival in London?  Tell me more.

Hubs is running the Sandstorm event tomorrow, and then we're going to Ruth's Chris for a celebratory dinner (but not before I sneak over to BoxPark for a quick lunch review).  Next week I'll be enjoying Italian at Matto and packing up to leave for Bangkok. What are you up to?