Food / Wine / Dine

<n>Das Naschkaetzchen</n>, an 1862 painting by <n>Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg</n>.

The 2022 painting <n>Cara Cara Core</n> by artist <n>Adam Clague</n>.

A tablescape by <n>Gohar World</n> featuring mother-of-pearl dishes and a <n>Persimmon Candle</n>.

A <n>Korean-style</n> cake by <n>Woolloomooloo Bakery</n>.

A ribbon cake by Melbourne-based studio <n>good.good.cake</n>, commissioned by <n>NATALIE</n>.

The <n>Punch Line</n> puzzle from <n>Piecework Puzzles</n>. Photo by <n>Sherry</n>.

<n>Eat Your Greens</n> by artist <n>Louise French</n>.

<n>Curly shell glasses</n> by <n>CENTÁ</n>.

Jello mold styled by <n>Jen Beauchesne</n>. Photo by <n>Imsi</n>.

Richard Olney's rhapsodic embrace of  improvised composed salads...

"*To baptize this kind of* salad canaille*, underlining the French affection for the delinquent and the demi-monde, is to suggest a quality of refreshing vitality allied to insolence—a certain flaunting refusal to respect accepted formulas. And, indeed, one need not often respect any of the endless and precisely defined classical recipes for composed salads (Niçoise, Waldorf, Andalouse, Mimosa, Francillon, Bagration, and so forth interminably) to be struck with the puerility of such a pastime and to realize how much more valuable and exciting is the imaginative and playful, self-renewing invention of a giant composed salad, never once repeated, its composition dictated by the materials at hand. And, given the fanciful but far from frivolous presence of flowers and a sufficient variety of green things, presented in a vast, wide ceramic or earthenware vessel (you need the space for easy tossing and the large surface for decorative effect), nothing in the entire repertory of food possesses the same startling, vibrant visual immediacy—the same fresh and casual beauty. It is a concentrated, pulsating landscape of garden essences and must absolutely be tossed at table, for, no matter how delicious, the visual explosion of joy, mixing intricately and lastingly with your guests’ memories of mingled flavors, adds a dimension."*

Patti Smith's lettuce soup recipe

Descriptive catalogue and price list : Van Holderbeke Nursery Company : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Joan Didion’s Favorite Recipes

Artwork from the <n>Menstruation Project</n>'s <n>BÄM! The Power of the Period</n> exhibition in Berlin, 2022.