WHO DOTH DUNIT PART 1
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE IS right up there with Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Dashiell Hammett in writing memorable crime fiction. Here are examples, acknowledging inspiration from Dwyer Murphy’s CrimeReads piece on … Continue reading
LAISSEZ LES BONS PLATS ROULER!
MAQUE CHOUX is French, literally “fake cabbage,” but in Cajun it describes a variation on succotash: a chunky corn stew with onions, bell peppers, hot peppers, garlic, and maybe tomatoes, … Continue reading
DECO FLICKS PART 2
YESTERDAY IN PART 1, we enjoyed the Art Deco settings of a 1924 French sci-fi flick and a 1929 celebration of Broadway. Today in Part 2, there’s an hotel saga, … Continue reading
DECO FLICKS PART 1
THE TERM “ART FILM” means different things to different people, but what I have in mind here is Art Deco in movies of the 1920s and 1930s. My primary source … Continue reading
TO THE HARE, WITH LOVE
THE JULY 2, 2020, ISSUE of London Review of Books offers Katherine Rundell’s ”Consider the Hare.” This essay is something of a love letter to Lepus europaeus: “In their long-limbed … Continue reading
SCHOOL DAZE?
THERE ARE PLENTY of reasons for kids to resume conventional schooling. There are plenty of reasons that this may not yet be the time. Here are tidbits gleaned from Science, … Continue reading
TOFU SHRIMP VEGGIES IN GINGER SAUCE
WHAT TO MAKE for dinner? The fridge has the usual staples: tofu, bok choy, soy sauce, rice wine, minced ginger, minced garlic. Well, at least, often in our fridge (along … Continue reading
SWEDEN, 1923 PART 2
THOUGH IT’S ALMOST a century old now, my Cook’s Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, 1923, is a fine means of catching up with this Scandinavian country. Yesterday in Part 1, we … Continue reading
SWEDEN, 1923 PART 1
WHAT WITH its less than orthodox, and perhaps less than successful, response to the world pandemic, Sweden is much in the news these days. I’m encouraged to learn more about … Continue reading
CELEBRATING GEORGE WHITTELL, JR. AND HIS DUESIE PART 2
WE CONTINUE THE tale of a wonderfully eccentric man, George Whittell, Jr., and one of the six Duesenbergs he commissioned, the 1931 Model J Long-Wheelbase Coupe. Yesterday in Part 1, … Continue reading
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