Jeremy Cherfas

I’m happy to cop to this. My motivation is certainly not jealousy. I’m not in the business of handing out rules for how other people should behave. It is more to do with the adulation others bestow not on the rules but on the person dispensing them. And it isn’t the rules, per se, it is the rest of the stuff.

First of the season. pesos

Teresa Cherfas reviews ‘The Return of the Russian Leviathan’by Sergei Medvedev:

“For anyone interested in contemporary Russia, this book is an invaluable guide and will leave you smiling through tears.”

Fine episode of Gravy from @southfoodways, all about horchata. A little disappointed that @rachellaudan didn’t bring English barley water into the story. Or if she did, that they cut it.

www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/hor…

Found these in the Chinese supermarket and am enjoying a bit of the numb tongue sensation that is Szechuan pepper. Strangely pleasant.

Nice to see violets in the springtime. pesos

Small detail from today’s Cultural Quickie™️ adorning a lectern in Santa Maria Maggiore. pesos

Currently reading: The Anarchy by William Dalrymple

                     #History
                     #India

A finished nigella seed loaf.It isn’t a naan, of course, but it has the smell and taste of one.

Old man river.First time down here in an age, and not much has changed.