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Nextbook, the lively, fun, eminently readable Web site devoted to Jewish culture, has been praised on Snobsite before. But now there’s a whole new reason to visit: Film Snob’s Dictionary co-author Lawrence Levi has launched a blog on the site called Nothing Sacred. Lawrence, a known Jew, will be surveying the cinematic landscape and offering his own Jewy, provocative, tzimmes-stirring gloss on it. Already, he has inflamed passions by questioning why Roman Polanski would ever want to hang out with Brett Ratner. August 04, 2008 More Film Snobbery »
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Omakase. Immoderately priced Japanese tasting menu. Roughly translated as “trust in me,” omakase usually involves a succession of small dishes devised by the chef as deliberate series of processions: from cool to hot, mild to assertive, raw to cooked. Often prepared and eaten right at a sushi bar, the omakase meal, with its triple-digit price tag, businessman demographic, and strange air of simultaneous intimacy and awkwardness between host and guest, is the closest gastronomical approximation of the escort-john experience. Read more from the Food Snob's Dictionary » 
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