I'm not trying to make a photograph, I'm trying to capture the essence, the impression of something. Some subjects I come back to o...

sep kamvar , whose appointment to the media lab i found mystifying, has some important things to say and says them nicely .

The thing I like most about rediscovering Led Zeppelin — and listening to the Chemical Brothers and The Bends — is that they can no longer ...

this is saipancakes , and there is much, much more. [thx sabeel]

makeş ıt eaşy to wrıte amüsınğ emaıls, but where ıs the apoströphe?

Tenses are important: abstract : This ethnography of nine internationally renowned avant-garde culinary groups in the US and Europe shows...

or, rather, TeX . or, actually,  LaTeX . what does someone who doesn't write equations need latex for? the awful truth is: i switched to...

Artists need to be in there from the start, making the argument for quality. The key to this thing is, for example, if you give an engineer...

i'm reading, as i do every year, seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees , which is both a biography of robert irwin and an...

my photographs have been influenced by those of ben sherrill .

garry kasparov, considering the slowdown in technological development *, writes that People have a sense that we should receive benefits f...

design is not about making things pretty, nor is it all about problem-solving (though some people think so). design is problem-finding fi...

a box of macarons from pierre hermé landed, unexpectedly, in my hands last night.* macarons are a bubble which has not yet popped. a few ye...

A prescription for a grand cuisine: Take a vigorous people, give them an empire, let them get accustomed to the spoils, and then take it al...

[thx tali]

and here we are, once more riding on the squeaky vinyl seats of the acela "express," mid-way between new york and boston. there...

robert kinmont, 1969.

i passed through san francisco this week on my way back east, causing two days of nearly continuous mild drizzle across much of the bay area...

after finishing late at stella! the night before, jake took one for the team and was in the line at 9am for the first seating at galatoi...

there is nothing to eat here except teriyaki. last night, i went out and procured a large quantity of fruit and vegetables to accompany me d...

right after i landed, i made sure the two bottles of wine in the duffle bag had survived unscathed, then to fox rent-a-car which stretches t...

a month ago, i was lucky to drink a glass of birkweiler kastanienbusch riesling from oekonomierat rebholz . the wine smelt of a first-brew h...

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Over the years I've probably put up two dozen fences of one sort or another. And since I started from a state of ignorance which farmer...

"the wagashi was an exquisitely beautiful miniature persimmon but ultimately forgettable, as all wagashi are." i wrote that years ...

more writing on craft and care in work here . the new york times may have figured it out: instead of short, unpolished articles, how abou...

The finished product was a rectangle of radiant simplicity, an unfancy, richly hued blank presence that was the predictable result, Barrett...

yesterday, we went to canteen on mass ave for lunch. the BLT was a marvel. thoroughly browned and ultra-crisp hot bacon, decent tomato thin...

bondir was already confident, understated, unusual, coherent, and generous a few weeks after it opened in december 2010. i've been back...