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That first link persuades me I was wrong about him getting the prize for Buddenbrooks. The presentation speech is very focused on it.

One fun thing about having a five-year diary is that I can see at a glance it snowed in New York January 6 last year too.

Breakfast, I thought.

I don't know the business model; maybe it's working across the country in areas with less local food media. I would not be buying shares in it. People have moved on. Which is not to sneer; we went from food forums like this one to personal food blogs to Instagram and TikTok, and things won't be static.

Indeed. I felt we were getting the same attention to the food as at the super-expensive next door place. $88 seemed right for three courses of this quality.

The past keeps returning. The Wrong Trousers, astonishingly, was released in 1993. I just saw a kind of sequel at Lincoln Center. Also showing there is Mike Leigh's new film, Hard Truths, which, through it's leading performer, apparently conjures memories of Secrets & Lies, 1996. I haven't watched movies on airplanes for years, but I remember that's how I saw Secrets & Lies when it was new and I remember crying. Guess I need a ticket to this new one.

Maybe one-off contributions from people like movie director Luca Guadgnino don't get an edit, other than for spelling and grammar. This is a badly written piece. But what is annoying is the claim that Mann won the Nobel Prize for Buddenbrooks. The prize is not awarded for specific works, although one can sometimes speculate the a particular book tipped the balance. Buddenbrooks was published in 1901. Mann won the prize twenty-eight years later, not coincidentally, I suspect, four years after he published The Magic Mountain. So the claim makes it look like Guadignino (fair enough, he's a movie director) but also The New Yorker don't really know much about Thomas Mann.

Eater no longer employs a single food critic (sfgate). Looks like he now has a substack.

Did not see that.

Barcelona in the sixties. I just have to get out of here.

Maybe Sietsema should visit.

Oh yes, and The British Museum is Falling Down. Long time ago I read him, I admit.

Well I didn't know that there were people called Schnipper involved in Schnipper's and Hale & Hearty, so I learned something, if not about the soup. I never went to Hale & Hearty because (1) the name and (2) soup, meh.

I'll tell you how it ends... 😄

I made it down to the Baldwin show at the Brooklyn Central Library. Photographs marking his ten year engagement with Istanbul, 1961-1971, but mostly taken around 1962-5, I believe. The photographer Sedat Pakay clearly had much access. At first sight it's a tiny exhibition and you wonder, did I need to come a long way? This is deceiving; it's just very scattered, around the entrance room, around the main ground floor; and I almost left before I saw a little sign, the exhibition continues upstairs. Which it does. Put together in one gallery, this would be satisfying. Of course, the trip can also be paired with the Brooklyn Museum, but there was not much there I cared about that I had not already seen.

Well, what do you expect? It's astonishing (and you can buy and watch on Netflix). On the one hand, vastly entertaining; on the other, how can you not wonder at the endless patience required to orchestrate huge, endless chase sequences with many characters using stop-motion photography? It's also a parable about AI. And worth flagging positive diversity in a movie set in a fantasy nostalgic England.

Gary is a seriously messed up person.

And the Baldwin keeps coming. Might see this at the weekend, depending on temperature. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/exhibitions/turkey-saved-my-life

Would love it, except behind a pay wall. I could list my own favorites.

If you have Mubi, this is a ravishing way to spend half an hour: https://mubi.com/en/us/films/allegorie-citadine

Look closer, 10+ years of experience as a restaurant critic, 4+ years of professional or educational culinary experience? This is random HR stuff. Bruni? Grimes? Wells? Even Sifton? Anyone? No. Whoever gets the job will not have done that stuff. And will get paid more. I assume there's a requirement to advertise it.

I agree with that too. Are they looking for someone young and cheap? (I.e. not me.)

Yes, your food shopping bill will be reduced but I agree that's a startling low range. Believe me, much less well known journalists earn within that range...

I have never liked this holiday. I could have spent time with family and shared my gloom. Instead, I am pacing through the evening, defying the thunder outside, with funny hors d'oeuvres plates. Smoked salmon with scoops of Zabar's cream cheese and lox. Foie gras with black truffle butter. Pernil with lime. The last, portions chiselled from a vast pork shoulder.

Oh, I remember her.