The cooking was invigorating, joyous. For Julia, the cooking fulfilled the promises that Le Cordon Bleu had made but never kept. Where Le Cordon Bleu always remained rooted in the dogma of French cuis...
The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the...
And yet at the center of this vortex was the desire to do something more with it. What or with whom, he wasn’t sure. But he sensed it was only a matter of time until it all came together and he put hi...
By mid-1966, an astounding eighty-eight Lennon-McCartney songs had been recorded in over 2,900 versions. Gershwin finally had competition.
Later, when the other Beatles arrived, the crowd in the street had swelled to an estimated twenty-thousand, some of whom were whipped up in a terrific heat. Others, many of them young girls who had be...
For that pent‑up ambition.
It existed almost by oversight, far removed from reality, as one of the Kandy Kids wrote, where everyone had an academic interest in the war but found life far too pleasant to do anything too drastic...
Where he was on a first-name basis with the pretty, long-legged usherettes who paraded along the aisles.
Julia dealt with rules the way she later dealt with vegetarians; she pretended they didn't exist.
On the endive show, she offered a Yogi Berra-style malaprop: Now don't wash endive-that is, unless it's dirty. And during an episode of forgetfulness: I did not have my glasses on when I was thinking....
The whole process at the Inny, as it was known, imitated a grand and long-standing intellectual tradition, and nothing defined it better than the august school motto: No nobis solum set toti mundo nat...