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On Gastronomical Authenticity [by Raymond Sokolov]
When I blundered into the food world around 1964, my goal was to recreate the dishes I had eaten as a student tourist in Europe in the summers of 1960 and 1962 with my…
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“Happy Birthday, D.A. Powell!” [by Anthony Madrid via Facebook]
D.A. POWELL (5/16)Doug Doug DougAnd we’re bouncing off the walls—SHIFTYNIFTY turnin’ fiftyIn his overallsHe’s in his overalls!He’s in his overalls!!Shiftynifty turnin’ fiftyIn his overalls☎D to P and middle vowel—Mystery of Mr Powell—Kennedy in ’63Can…
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PEN World Voices.2 [by Sharon Preiss]
(This is the second installment in a short series. Stay tuned for more about the PEN World Voices Festival.) Every spring, for nine years running, the PEN World Voices Festival brings an astounding array…
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On Literature and Food [by Raymond Sokolov]
Banquet Scene Nicias Painter (circa 420 BC In our food-besotted culture, chefs and cookbook authors get far more respect, by and large, than poets or classical musicias or scholars ever did before post-modernism had…
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Did Goethe Read Horace? [by Raymond Sokolov]
Portrayal of Horace by Giacomo Di Chirico Goethe’s famous mountain lyric, “On every summit,” (see yesterday’s post) reminded me of a now even more famous “poetic” encounter in the mountains of Crete during World…
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PEN World Voices [by Sharon Preiss]
(This is the first installment in a short series. Stay tuned for more about the PEN World Voices Festival!) Every spring, for nine years running, the PEN World Voices Festival brings an astounding array…
