"Joe Beef: Surviving the Apocalypse" is a unique cookbook and survival guide from the acclaimed Montreal restaurant, Joe Beef. Featuring over 150 recipes, it combines culinary creativity with practical advice for apocalyptic times. The book celebrates Québécois traditions and promotes self-sufficiency in cooking, making it a must-have for any kitchen.
The Past: 'Living Fast' Redefined As Bangkok Hilton Escapee David Mcmillan Opens His Past As A Teenage Drug-Trafficker
The narrative follows David McMillan's early life as he transitions from a drug smuggler to a bestselling author, detailing his ambitious schemes to amass wealth through illegal activities. By age 21, he recounts his experiences smuggling marijuana via Learjet and forming connections with notorious figures in Bangkok. This prequel provides an intimate look into his motivations, the risks he took, and the lifestyle that defined his youth, setting the stage for his later transformation.
Two weeks before a near-certain death sentence drug smuggler McMillan escapes from a high-security prison in Bangkok, never to be seen in Thailand again.
Since 1994 David McMillan has journeyed 21 times to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Inspired by his teenage memories of Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957), a disturbing vision of the world following nuclear war, McMillan found in Pripyat the embodiment of an irradiated city still standing but void of human life. As one of the first artists to gain access to "The Zone," McMillan initially explored the evacuated areas with few constraints and in solitude, save for an occasional scientist monitoring the effects of radioactivity. Returning year after year enabled him to revisit the sites of earlier photographs-sometimes fortuitously, sometimes by design-thereby bearing witness to the inexorable forces of nature as they reclaimed the abandoned communities. At times his unhurried approach to picture making led McMillan to look at unassuming subjects, which gave rise to engrossing compositions. Above all, his commitment has been to probe the relentless dichotomy between growth and decay in The Zone. 'When I first ventured to Chernobyl in 1994, the experience was thrilling and totally absorbing. I felt I had found a subject both inexhaustible and consequential. I wanted to make photographs describing something I hadn't seen before, which had the potential to be simultaneously beautiful and unsettling.' -David McMillan