Road-Food Rocker

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses Sound Bites, his collection of essays about eating on tour.

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This sounds like a fun book: "Sound Bites: Eating on Tour With Franz Ferdinand" http://www.laweekly.com/music/music/take-me-out-to-eat/15349/

Depending on what demographic you fall into, you might like a new release called Sound Bites, a compilation of food essays written by the frontman of Franz Ferdinand, Alex Kapranos. It’s sort of a rock...

Do these guys have a website? I did a quick search and could only find reviews, every one of which mentioned that Franz Ferdinand had eaten there.

I was just at B&B and this wasn’t remotely my experience. I’d hardly say Jack Johnson and Franz Ferdinand are all that weird (nor were they played all that loud), I thought the waitstaff were a great combination of...

“Sound Bites” by Alex Kapranos. He fronts the new wave band Franz Ferdinand, and this book chronicles some of the food he’s eaten while traveling the world on tour. Certainly not as elegantly written as anything...

singer of Franz Ferdinand, and to the Sterns. I am thinking, holy cow, this is a pretty broad swath of people! The amazing part to me was how well she was able to paint a picture with her own words and the way she coaxes words...

, the tables are practically piled on top of each other. It makes for a noisy, bustling feel to the place (much more so than the music, which I hardly found intrusive at all notwithstanding others' complaints – what’s...

Soul" with dinner prep. About six moths ago, I got into the habit of playing Franz Ferdinand while I cook. It is the best for doing prep. That, or K’naan (and I generally dislike rap). Perhaps because the first cut on...

An apron, a wine thermometer, and some books: Heat (Bill Buford), Best Food Writing of 2006, Sound Bite: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand, United States of Arugula, A Gentleman Entertains.

, but then developed added complexity due to the added ingredients (the caraway-flavored akvavit being especially notable). 2: FOIE GRAS | daikon, shiso, yuzu Max Ferdinand Richter Graacher Domprobst Riesling Spätlese, Mosel 1993...