recent relevance:

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diana vreeland’s memos

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house of Louise Bourgeois:
“I’m using the house,” she told a visitor, when she was in her mid-70s. “The house is not using me.”

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ingredients:
– soaked rice
– creamy honey
- seeking avocados in january

recently:

photography of Krysta Jabczenski 

diana kennedy’s carnitas; the combination of slow cooking and salt

chalky white flats

arranging things like this, via Lauren Spencer King

mimosa flowers, via Instagram

One favorite recent long-term project I’ve been working on is producing a series for Apiece Apart profiling inspiring women. Working across careers, and living all over the world, the women are bound by living self-made lives (in whatever terms it means to them). It’s been truly inspiring to interact with these women: photographers, musicians, chefs, entrepreneurs, designers, and artists of all kinds. I’ve mentioned this series before, but here are a few favorite features (and photos) from the fall:

Emily Johnston

Christine Muhlke

Adele Stafford

Camille Becerra

Kai Avent-deLeon

Kazu Makino

Elisa Restrepo

And a bonus salad recipe from Camille Becerra that I can’t get enough of:

In salads, I like to approach pairings by looking at the fruits and vegetables in front of me and think about how they will work together — not only in flavor, but in palette. For this very simple one, I mandolined celery, fennel, persimmon, and Asian pear onto a plate, and drizzled it with Citronette, a French citrus dressing, which is very easy to make: it’s straight lemon juice, and you add some honey, which you keep adding until it tastes like a sweet lemonade. At that point, add some salt and whisk in a neutral, soft oil like grapeseed or canola, until it has some body and a good weighty consistency. Sometimes I even sprinkle a tiny bit of chile at the end — not so that it makes the dressing spicy, but so that it has a nice backend depth and sits on your palette a little longer.

“It’s so foolish to live (which is always trouble enough) and not to save your soul. It’s so foolish to lose your real pleasures for the supposed pleasures of the chase.” — willa cather

“What seems to be one thing from a distance is very different close up.” — reflections from Gloria Steinem

drawing connections:

jean-luc godard / jasmine deporta / @nikaosday

reflecting on,

1. salads on the fly, via food 52

2. increased flexibility,

3. general disposition/hair part/outfit/everything of the guy in the right corner:

4. my friend ann takes the best [accidental] photographs. enjoying work without the mandate of concept.

kazu makino for apiece apart, via vogue

considering,

• precious opportunities

• the task at hand

• personalized messages

• perceptions of value

whites, waists, the human form.

unknown / unknown / Palucca’s dance curves