sarah in nyc

My older son joined me for a visit to the Met today. I have been wanting to see  the Rei-Kawakubo  exhibit since it had opened.  Today was my opportunity to go. Amazon.com Widgets  The designer is exploring so many big ideas in her work. It's hard to talk about it with out sounding like the worst and most pretentious writing about art. What I will say is that despite raising a host of serious issues being around the clothing creates a joy in the viewer. Some of the clothing seems really wearable. All of it makes you think about what it means to clothe your body. Since I had gotten to see what I most wanted to I let my son take the lead. We visited a bit of an exhibit about WWI propaganda posters. We wandered through the Egyptian exhibits. I was startled to see a mummy who looked remarkably like my beautiful niece. We took in some decorative art.  Seeing the excellent furniture at the An...

Friday has rolled around again. It's a challah baking week. Amazon.com Widgets I braided the challot in two ways. The two loaves on the right were braided using two spice filled rolls of dough folded in half an braided together. the two challot on the left were braided using four fat strands. This is what the dough looks like when it is time to form the dough. It holds the shape of a finer poked into it. It does look like a belly button here. After the loaves were baked, they looked like this. I was thinking about the challot we ate last week in Ann Arbor. They were imported from Columbus by my friend Helene. They were good, but like all store bought challah, sort of a different species entirely from a good home baked challah. And speaking of different species, my friend Vivian, of the various textile treasures bequeathed to me, gave me a new box of treasures. Vivian explained to me that her late grandfather had owned a small leather goods factory in Ger...