Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake: A Compendium of Classic Authors’ Favourite Recipes. Arbitrarily photographed with some eggs in my kitchen...

The living room of Claribel and Etta Cone whose art collections now belong to the  Baltimore Museum of Art. The room has been reconstructed ...

  What I dream of when I dream of Paris... The Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum, November, 2018. In July of 2018, I wrote a blog post titled “...

Mural: "Ben Franklin, Colonial Postmaster," 1938, by George Harding at the Ariel ...

The Book of Salt by Monique Truong constructs the life story of a Vietnamese cook who worked for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in the ...

  André Kertesz, 1925, Le Café du Dôme, Paris.    "Well, we'll meet again shan't we? Of course we shall. It would be a pity no...

From my attic bookshelves… Jean Rhys (1890-1979) wrote about life in 1920s Paris in a rather dismal way in two of her novels: Quartet and A...