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…
The Highest Notes
What I’ve always hoped to find in Milan, during many, many fashion weeks here, are traces of the glamorous Maria Callas, who took to the grand La Scala stage in the mid-1950s, and took the city by storm. Sometimes, seeing…
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