Diligent Candy
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This simple recipe highlights the freshest ingredients and the contrasting nice and naughty flavors of springtime.
Read more: Ramped Up Crostini...
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“Nobody really looked at the world around them as landscapes. So they invented even the word, and then the landscapers that designed landscapes would...”
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navel orange, fruit and nut dark chocolate, and green tea
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Looks and sounds lovely!
spring leek & green garlic veloute with chive oil and crispy maitake mushrooms
photo by Darin Dines
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ca. 1870-1900, [cabinet card, portrait of a photographer and his subject], F. Girard
via Cowan’s Auctions
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The tomb of Hafez. Hafez is sometimes argued to be the most prolific and popular of all Iranian poets. You’ll rarely ever stumble into an Iranian household and encounter a family that does not have any of his works.
By Margaret Atwood
Love is not a profession
genteel or otherwise
sex is not dentistry
the slick filling of aches and cavities
you are not my doctor
you are not my cure,
nobody has that
power, you are merely a fellow/traveller
Give up this medical concern,
buttoned, attentive,
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A day in the life of India
Full page cartoon published by the Times of India
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The handmaidens of Sivawara preparing the sacred bull at Tanjore for a festival - Valentine Cameron Prinsep
New Mantra
After finishing our assigned readings from the Subaltern Studies Collective this week, we were complaining about how a particular piece by Spivak was incomprehensible.
Our professor then proceeded to treat us to an amusing anecdote where one of Spivak’s students had complained about much the same in her class: Spivak’s reponse? “Don’t fetishize clarity!”
her eyes
were the clink
of empty glasses
being bussed
back to the bar,
his voice
was the dripping
condensation puddled
on sticky counters,
mopped dry
with dirty rags.
they met
but they don’t remember.
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Penguin Great Ideas - Series 4 Book Cover Designs
Penguin’s Great Ideas series spans 100 slim paperback volumes, each containing a speech, story, essay or excerpt of text that “changed the world”.
These minimal, two-colour, typography-heavy designs are the work of David Pearson, with aditions from Alistair Hall, Joe McLaren, Catherine Dixon and Phil Baines. See the full high-res gallery.
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