WHA’CHA’CALL’IT IN OLD MANHATTAN?
IT’S ALWAYS ENTERTAINING—and never too late—to bring one’s knowledge up to date. Like, for instance, is there an original Mr. Wall of Wall Street? Or why did a street in … Continue reading
THE LRB ON LONDON’S WILD ’N’ CRAZY SIXITIES
“IF YOU REMEMBER THE SIXTIES,” Comedian Charlie Fleischer observed, “you really weren’t there.” Well, true, I was at Worcester Poly—majoring in mathematics, of all things—and later in grad school at … Continue reading
GANDER SENDS COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE TO FLORIDA AND TEXAS
THIS JUST IN (Well, not really….): Sensing a crying need, the people of Gander, Newfoundland, Canada, have organized flights of compassionate folks to Florida and Texas. Some say it would … Continue reading
CUISINE DU SUD-OUEST
SORTING THROUGH THE cookbook shelves, I came upon this little gem from Auberge D’Chez Eux, a Parisian restaurant having earlier made a SimanaitisSays appearance. Its Traditions et cuisine de Sud-Ouest … Continue reading
CYCLING THE TYROL—IN 1905 PART 2
YESTERDAY, BAEDEKER’S AUSTRIA-HUNGARY offered helpful hints about cycling Tyrol. Today we share tidbits of its itinerary from Innsbruck to Bozen, together with related thoughts of my own trippin’ thereabouts, real … Continue reading
CYCLING THE TYROL—IN 1905 PART 1
MY 1905 BAEDEKER’S AUSTRIA-HUNGARY is prior to the commonality of motor cars, so I frame these tidbits of travel here in Part 1 around cycling, which is more than adequately … Continue reading
CONFITTED DUCKS I HAVE KNOWN
CONFIT DE CANARD, duck that’s salt-cured and then poached in its own fat, is a French culinary delight. There are several confitted ducks I have known, and here are tidbits … Continue reading
KITSUNE TALES
THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE IS RICH in puns. Indeed, entire narratives are written with nested multiple meanings. And today’s title, Kitsune Tales, fits this idea: Kitsune, 狐, is the Japanese word … Continue reading
TŌKAIDŌ ADVENTURES PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE BEGAN FOLLOWING Philippe Delord’s retracing the route of Hiroshige’s The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, as displayed in Hiroshige’s Japan—On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print Master. Today … Continue reading
TŌKAIDŌ ADVENTURES PART 1
THIS BEGAN AS a book review of Philippe Delord’s Hiroshige’s Japan—On the Trail of the Great Woodblock Print Master, and it still is. Also, though, this lovely art book recalled several … Continue reading
