"Beautiful soup"
Alice B. Toklas
From murder to detection is not far. And here is a note on tracking a soup to its source. It was as a result of eating gazpacho in Spain lately that I came to the conclusion that recipes through conquests and occupations have travelled far. After the first ineffable gazpacho was served to us in Malaga...
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Space Brownies: Alice B. Toklas, Brion Gysin, William Burroughs
Gertrude Stein was dead at that point; she had died in 1947. In 1952, Alice signed a contract with Harper’s to write a cookbook. Then in her 70s, Alice was...
About This Project
This is the online companion to a print anthology, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. As the title suggests, this is an attempt to remap a familiar corpus, to open it to more surprises, to more complex geographies, and to a variety of genres and media. Part of the impetus comes from a simple survey of what is currently in the field... See more |
staff picksHerman Melville. Moby-Dick. It is a land of oil, true enough; but not like Canaan... See more
Jhumpa Lahiri. "When Mr. Pirzada Came to Dine." In the autumn of 1971 a man used to come to our house, bearing confections in his pocket... See more
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