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Love Rich/Peg, please say hello for me. ❤️

Manigodine I did not know. Not unlike good Vacherin, wrapped in spruce bark, amazingly creamy and uncontrollably runny. Recommended. Formaggio Essex.

I admit I read a library copy. I am overjoyed that mentioning that movie has stirred memories here.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/anaperrote/3566693557158993198?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=bWE0cmRsMzVqeHdt Gabba gabba in Istanbul, love them. Eta: Does that link work?

If I had, I'd give it away. Is he not here for this garguantuan SNL 50th anniversary live stream on Sunday? I admit I am backing away from it, such a gluttony of self-congratulation.

I went to Charleston 20 plus years ago and just wouldn't have known...

Amazing. I mentioned this before, but there's a photo exhibit on the islands at the Whitney through May: https://whitney.org/exhibitions/jeanne-moutoussamy-ashe-last-gullah-islands

Daughters of the Dust (1991). I watched it on Criterion but there seem to be a number of streaming options. Wow. Visual poetry, so beautfiul, the people and the shoreline setting. Briefly, this tells the story of a group of Gullah settlers on one of the Sea Islands. Their ancestors arrived as slaves, but it's now 1902, they are free, and a number of them plan to head to the mainland (and the North). Others choose to stay. A series of conflicts are presented, between history and the present, between African rites and Christian observance, between duty to ancestors and a "civilized future." Initially, it's a puzzle, darting back and forth in time before largely settling in 1902 (its narrator, at that point, hasn't yet been born). The dialog is in Gullah or Geechee. I have seen references to a subtitled version, but this wasn't it; you just have to concentrate and tune in. Almost all the words are English. And then there are surprises in the cast, like a cameo appearance by Gullah food writer Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor and even a young actress I remember as a yoga TV instructor a few years later. Not for everyone, I suspect (I would call it slow cinema) but I was captivated. This was the first movie by a Black woman director, Julie Dash, to get a general release.

Weather I am so over it like can't we have a different way to signal what season it is like the sky is orange for spring and this white stuff on the ground is pretty for fifteen minutes then it's studded with dog poop and a death trap and can I go to the store a block away without wearing three sweaters and ugh.

Vaguely remember that, yes.

Takes me back to when distinguished Mouthfuls alumna Cabrales was keen to learn about prison food.

I am interested in trying it, maybe not on a "rainy winter night."

I would have picked up all those pennies if I'd known what they were worth. In theory. Other than the cute names, nickels and dimes? I don't know when I last used a dollar bill. But they do look cheap to make.

Really do appreciate a first-hand report like this. Many reasons to go to Red Hook over the years and it was always subway plus long walk.

I was puzzled enough by the hapless breakdown of the Chiefs that I listened to Hill and Phillips talk about, but I am not sure I came away any wiser.

No, I haven't been, but another thoughtful, informed, historically aware review by Rosner. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-food-scene/lundys-and-the-risks-of-restaurant-revivals

I remember the Cowgirls movie, but I don't believe I ever read him.

Another one of those completely uncompetitive Super Bowls and we've had a few over the years. Anyone other than Eagles fans gripped by it? I was surprised the Chiefs offense was disabled so early and decisively, but I'm no expert. Highlight, Jon Batiste's New Orleans piano national anthem.

100th Anniversary issue just dropped. Looks great. One annoyance, the headline (digital) Goings On Turns 100. Still haven't forgiven them for gutting that section.

Tired of weather.

Cold pickled souse on hot toast with capers, the lovely Jamon Jamon orange wine.

@Evelyn I had a great dinner at Lonesome Dove, but indeed years ago before COVID, but I see the same adventurous menu, so worth a look.

So Patrick's on the Hill is open, the old Grange space not really changed. That long, comfortable bar. Not busy tonight but I did see and smell some great oxtails. Will be back for dinner.

I saw him on the UES once. Great hair.

One of those rare museums you can enjoy without even looking at the art.