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Thirty Days…
In just thirty days—November 2—Encyclopedia of the Exquisite will hit bookshelves all over. Besides the big book shops, amazon.com, etc., John Derian in New York will sell Encyclopedia as will Marc Jacobs‘ BookMarc. To say that I’m excited is an…
Kitchen Chemists
Though the food world of the past boasted elaborate, strange Medieval sotelties—strange food dioramas and jokey dishes like four-and-twenty-blackbirds baked in a pie, which I write about in Encyclopedia of the Exquisite—it seems to me now that no era has…
J’arrive
Just before I left Paris for good several years ago I discovered Camille, the French singer who has Edith Piaf‘s bravado and the quirkiness of Bjork. I sang her song about quitting Paris to myself a lot back then. Now,…
Fluturas and Birrabirros
I was remembering today how a friend at school learned how to say ‘butterfly’ in some twenty different languages. It’s such a pretty project. So I started making a list of my favorite butterfly translations, and it seems to be…
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