A double dose of foodiste stop-motion animation, thanks to Youtube.

Culture clichés abound in this little history lesson, but I don’t even mind the beef Stroganoff. In fact, the entire enactment of wars in XX and XXI is kind of clever, gruesomely messy (like real war is), but also made me incredibly hungry after watching.

PES makes [...]

Yesterday J. and I went to see The Mirror (Zerkalo) directed by Andrey Tarkovsky. I haven’t yet come up with the right words to talk about the film. It was at times intimately familiar, even though I’d never seen it before. Some of the most beautiful dream sequences I’ve ever seen are visualized in the [...]

I’m starting to nest, more. Specifically, the urge too simmer and bake is getting hard to rein in. This evening, I made roasted garlic soup, root vegetable casserole, butternut squash in soy sauce & mirin with black sesame, whole wheat cous cous and a baby spinach salad with goat cheese. Two friends came over, people [...]

It could be a blessing. It could be a curse. However, it is, unquestionably, very exciting. Rei Kawakubo for Comme de Garcons is doing a special line of men’s & women’s clothing, accessories and fragrances for H&M. The line rolls out some time in November. I’m really loving the blazers and coats, while I could [...]