House & Home The New Yorker’s art and architectural critic Lewis Mumford found much to dislike about urban life, from pretentious ornamentation to the gigantic scale of skyscrapers popping up all over Manhattan. Technology and progress were fine, but when coupled with unbridled capitalism, Mumford...
Keep the skin on – it's edible. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer the squash to a platter flesh side up, then top with the chickpeas, some of the ginger yogurt and a very generous sprinkle of za'atar. Serve the remaining yogurt alongside. 分享 Comments Pretty Darned Near Absolutely...
and her second volumeAmnesiacexceeds the bar set by her skillful debut. Prefaced by the epigraph from the end of Olga Broumas’ poem “Artemis,” these poems grapple with alienation and disassociation from the body and humanity, particularly through forgetting. Forgetting becomes a kind of violence...
…popular were these Rockwellian ads that equated various products with happy and wholesome (and safe) living, in this case a massive “Dual-Balloon” tire that dominated this tableau featuring a stylish mommy and her little boy slumming with an old sea salt… …the folks at Essex House hir...
Emily won second place in a baking competition with her “Indian loaf and rye bread” (tastingtable.com) and enjoyed baking for her family, friends, and neighbors. The home-baked gifts sometimes included edible flowers from her garden. The Homestead had three types of grapes, and the family...
The dining room smelled like salt and tomato sauce, though the windows were open to sea air and screaming gulls. A teenage waitress, sullen and pierced, served her a dish of polenta with wild mushroom sauce. It was crispy and savory, and came with a little pitcher of Elba wine, which ...
HIGH STYLE, LOW PRICES…Clockwise, from top left, the 1931 Continental Building was home to this Longchamps restaurant at Broadway and 41st Street (circa 1937); entrance on 42nd Street to the Longchamps in the Chanin Building, circa 1935; late 1930s matchbook cover from Longchamps; interior...
FOR THE SUCKERS…P.T. BarnumexhibitedWilliam Henry Johnsonas a “wild man”, a “What-Is-It” that subsisted on raw meat, nuts, and fruit, but was learning to eat more civilized fare such as bread and cake. Note the difference between the poster depiction at left and the actual man....
44:TheJohn Alden, a nine-story apartment building that dates to 1917, is named (like two buildings across the street) for a character from a Longfellow poem. 40:1890s house was home and studio (1911-51) of sculptor Charles Keck, whoseFather Duffyis in Times Square. House reworked in 19...
The poorer people ate, for the most part, things such as corn mush, coarse bread, stock fish and salt pork. Those of a somewhat higher standing ate beef, white bread, wine, and cheese. For the nobles and their circles, meal time was an altogether different matter. ...