10425 Road-Food Rocker Thu Jan 25 16:47:00 -0800 2007 http://www.chow.com/stories/10425 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 00:47:00 GMT Alex Kapranos discusses Sound Bites, his collection of essays about eating on tour Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos discusses Sound Bites, his collection of essays about eating on tour. http://www.chow.com/assets/2007/01/alex_240x240.jpg James Norton 77 Q&A 1

Illustration by Kapranos’s friend and Franz Ferdinand touring drummer Andrew Knowles.

Rock stars are known more for dabbling in amateur pharmacology than for writing essay collections. That would make Alex Kapranos an anomaly. The Franz Ferdinand frontman talked to us about eating on tour, the sinister appeal of gutting animals, and Sound Bites (Fig Tree, 2006), his new book of musings on road food.

]]> 3531 alex kapranos 3533 franz ferdinand 3535 sound bites 5277 touring