"Yes, Chef"In his memoir Yes, Chef, the celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson shows himself to be a man who loves food and who is dedicated to several ideals of ethnic awareness and racial equality. Though I knew that Samuelsson was a native of Ethiopia, adopted as a small child and raised in Sweden, author of a …
Coming soon...I spent several hours at the Chicago Art Institute today, enjoying their vast collections of American art, Impressionism, African art, Asian sculpture and ceramics, and more. Sadly, an exhibit that I would love to see doesn't start until next week.The saddest part: many paintings that represent cult…
TapasLooking out the window of Mercat Restaurant towards Michigan Avenue in Chicago.We arrived in Chicago at 3:45 PM, spent an hour in the Art Institute, and went on down the street to eat at Mercat.We ate there one other time, in August 2010.Boquarones (white anchovies) with pine nuts and herbsSerrano h…
Ideal 20th Century KitchensNick and Nora Charles and Asta in "The Thin Man" --The Art Deco backgrounds of their beautiful apartment included a pure 1930s kitchen.Yesterday I briefly explored the idea that the art of the twentieth century might, like the art of earlier centuries, be an interesting source of visual information …
Twentieth Century KitchensWhen we want to know what a kitchen was like in the 17th or 18th century, we take a look at the paintings and other art works of the artists of that time. Works by Chardin (1699-1779) in France or Jan Steen (1626- 1669) and many others during the Dutch Golden Age give us wonderful insight into life …
