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HIGH HOLIDAY SOUP
It takes four hours to make this soup but it is simply delicious. That’s because there is a secret ingredient, one I remember because I ‘d never heard of anyone else using it in their matzo ball soup.
Grossmutter, Clayton… Continue reading
Pinky Says: A TRIBUTE TO JAMES ROSENQUIST
It was a really hot day in New York, so hot that our art tour group was already irritable and hoping that somewhere along the line of artists’ studios we were visiting there would be an air conditioned respite. When… Continue reading
NEBBISH ZINNIAS
Every year, I start off the summer full of great ambitions and overzealous hope all due to the beautiful seed catalogs that begin arriving in January. However, over the years I’ve learned to be more realistic. I now only order… Continue reading
Pinky says: continuation of Bloch-Bauer Portrait
According to the Belvedere Gallery Adele had bequeathed the Klimt paintings to the gallery. It was not until the late 1990s that the ugly twisted saga of Vienna’s acquisition of the Klimts began to unfold. In 1998 Austria… Continue reading
Pinky Says: THE STOLEN PORTRAIT OF ADELE BLOCH-BAUER
The world record sale in 2006 of a Gustav Klimt portrait marked the culmination of its sensational journey from the salons of Vienna via the hands of Nazi looters to the Neue Museum in New York. The painting… Continue reading
