The fun part
I didn’t realize how fun it would be to see Encyclopedia of the Exquisite printed in foreign languages. German. Dutch. Korean. Lithuanian. With complex and simple Chinese characters to come. Would love to see it in Arabic…
I would just love to see Casanova’s handwritten memoirs, “The Story of My Life,” now being shown at the Biblioteque Nationale in France, where more than 3700 pages of his papers are kept. “Worthy or not,” he wrote, “my life is…
All Scrambled
Master chef Jacques Pépin has changed breakfast around here, and has challenged Encyclopedia of the Exquisite‘s entry on omelet-making. After reading this article in the New York Times, the ground shook. Unlike Julia Child, who gently tossed her eggs before…
How Sweet It Is
All summer long I’d been meaning to write about how much I love beekeeping. We got a hive in July and I could sit and watch those little ladies dart in and out with their bags of pollen all afternoon…
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