"it has flavor, unlike anything that has been distilled six times. Now, this flavor is a strange, ancient one and might not immediately...

yamazaki 18 aberlour a'bunadh talisker 10 ardbeg airigh nam beist ardbeg corryvreckan bookers bourbon nano-lot piura (bag #3), sambir...

open at last! congratulations to journeyman : diana, tse wei, meg, dan, seth, and the rest of the team.

Ceaseless practice usually suffices to produce the precise look of subtle imperfection. drakes

the tertiary state of fatigue where the nerves and senses lie bared to direct contact with the world and there is no longer distance or matt...

There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I knew no...

"the future is useless without the insight that distinguishes fact from wish and exposes, beneath variable disguises, an unchanging sel...

"Northern light is like light after it rains. I don't like fat, lazy, Mediterranean light." richard serra (in calvin tomkins...

marc abrahams, chief instigator of the ignobel awards  (for research that makes people laugh and then think), is the subject of a feature ma...

Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready-made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to d...

michael heizer at dia beacon.

kevin and mimi are diabolical geniuses. above you see a poached egg with chimichurri and fried garlic sand on frisee on a slab of heirlo...

We err when we stray too far from the life of the mind and the potato. "contact," in the raw and the cooked , jim harrison, 1992....

"every hour is banh mi hour, if the sandwich is eaten within five minutes of it being made. There is something close to alchemy when th...

"the new botany aligns the development of plants with their economic, not evolutionary, success." amory and hunter lovins, a tale...

is neat, but doing dia beacon and storm king in the same day is like drinking two 750s of beer where just one is a sufficiency. maya lin...

last weekend, we drove westward into upstate new york to visit dia beacon . the drive, google maps tells us, takes 3h 22m. on I-84, we saw a...

a long week, and one especially jarring from the contrast with maine last weekend (a weekend of nothing much but paddling around the bush co...

when i was growing up, one of our tv stations was dedicated to public access and education. it often ran informational videos including one ...

brilliant stuff from troika—2-axis rotational sculpture with a minor modification of the original V&A logo by alan fletcher . Posted...

via youtube.com posted everywhere on the interwebs, but still worth watching anyway. Posted via email from flavourcountry

another great drink from hi rise, where the espressos are perfect and the sandwiches well-constructed.

via ctbto.org isao hashimoto's narrative map of nuclear explosions worldwide, 1945-1998. watch the whole thing. Posted via emai...