Bartolomeo Scappi, who was the personal cook of popes and author of the earliest illustrated cookbook, was the first man known to have scoured different cities for new ingredients and recipes and to have invented new dishes just for the sake of creativity. His banquets were renowned among prelates and nobles all over Europe.
Maggie Smith Knows She’s Hard To Work With, And She Wishes She Were Like Judi Dench
“The awful thing is, I’m very aware when I’m being difficult, but I’m usually so scared. And that’s shaming, at the age one is. Because every time I start anything, I think, ‘This time I’m going to be like Jude, and it will all be lovely, it will be merry and bright, the Quaker will come out in me.’ But it never works.”
The Pantone System Of Color Standards We Now Use? It Was Based On Birds
Yes, indeed – it was first developed by an ornithologist in 1886; he expanded it for the rest of us in 1912. Allison Meier explains.
Can Lyric Opera Of Chicago Survive The 21st Century?, Asks Leading Chicago Business Magazine
Lyric general director Anthony Freud, along with the company’s CFO and board chairman, remember the days (the ’90s and before) when their season sold out on subscription, describe the extra attention they’re offering subscribers today, and list half a dozen strategies they’re using to strengthen operations and increase income (which has been suffering).
Does Learning Other Languages Make You More Empathetic?
Even though it’s largely accepted that our spoken languages don’t completely determine what we think, they do influence how we think (and feel and behave) in subtler ways–including how and when we experience empathy.
New NPR Guidelines Wrestle With Conflict Between Transparency And Reporter-Funder Firewall
Traditionally, the network took care to keep reporters from even knowing what donors or organizations might be funding coverage of the stories they work on. But it’s difficult to do that at the same time you’re trying to be clear to listeners about who’s providing the money to support the reporting.
The Flapbooks Of 16th-Century Venice (They Were Oh-So- Naughty)
The city’s ingenious publishers came up with the perfect souvenir for a wealthy tourist to bring home from what was then a famously libertine city.
Producing Plays In A Theatre “Desert”
“My small town was in what I call a new play desert. If you were a playwright, the closest market for your new play was a few workshop opportunities forty-five minutes away in the next city. There was a regional theatre, a theatre department at the local university, and a community theatre, but none of them were very open to producing or even reading new plays. After taking two playwriting classes at my alma mater, I found myself surrounded by ten or so students that had caught the writing bug with no outlet left to develop their plays once the semester was over. So I took it upon myself to provide that outlet for them and myself. I stepped out of the theatre “dojo” to provide an oasis in the middle of this desert.”
Spencer Hays, Business Magnate Who Gave A Huge Art Collection To The Musee D’Orsay, Has Died At 80
Mr. Hays had been a Bible salesman, an apparel salesman and a majority shareholder in a business employing college students to sell magazine subscriptions every summer. And he and his wife adored Paris, and French art. “The gift — the largest foreign donation of art to France since World War II — was announced by President François Hollande in a ceremony at the Élysée Palace in October after months of negotiations with the couple.”
Is ‘Viceroy’s House,’ A New Film From Gurinder Chadha, Being Misinterpreted As Anti-Muslim?
Responding to a fierce takedown by author Fatima Bhutto (read that here), the director says she normally wouldn’t respond to criticism, but “Bhutto seems intent on inflaming the racial and religious divisions that my film is intended to challenge.”
Hoo Boy, And Now The Academy May Get Into A Legal Battle
Or is that simple gamesmanship? “Theoretically, the Academy itself could sue in an effort to lower its tab with PwC, but experts speculate that the firm may proactively offer a deep discount, or even a total waiver of fees for the event, in an attempt to keep the business.”
The Arts Council Of England Wants To Grade Theatre Shows
And it’s offering a big external contract – 2.7 million pounds – for the company that can figure out this “Quality Metrics” system.
What Do Memories Smell Like?
The role of smell in cultural preservation is getting its own attention – and the tool of the preservationists is “a sampling device that looks like a contraption out of Jules Verne: a crystalline dome with plastic tubing snaking from its side. The sampler is placed gently on objects — rare books, furniture, carpets — to capture the escaping molecules that create a distinct smell.”
Laurie Anderson On Lou Reed As A Writer, Their Retirement Plans, And Their Archives
Anderson doesn’t want the archives to go to a university where no one can access them. That said, some things can’t be captured: “The one thing I really miss from this archive that was such a big part of Lou — and can’t really be archived — is his dedication to meditation. He made a very extensive study of the nature of mind, but there is no physical trace of it. He left no footprints.”
Sarasota Ballet Dancers Vote To Unionize
The 26-year-old company’s dancers voted to join the American Guild of Musical Artists. Negotiations for a contract begin in two weeks.
Paula Fox, Who Wrote Award-Winning Books For Adults And Children, Has Died At Age 93
Fox wrote for every age, and so, critics said, her adult work was often discounted. “Fox’s best-known novel for adults is ‘Desperate Characters’ (1970), about the disintegration of a marriage. It was made into a film of the same title, released the next year and starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars.”
The First Fiction Smuggled Out Of North Korea Reveals A Lot About Life There
The book, which was written from 1989-1995 and hidden away until a chain of strangers had the chance to smuggle it out, is a series of stories that “are a frank look at the life of regular citizens trying to get by under a repressive regime. Many of the characters fail to grasp the reality of the world in which they live, either through ignorance, stubbornness, or a misguided hope that the regime is more reasonable than it really is.”
What Could Possibly Explain Last Week’s Oscars Flub?
Disaster science, in which lots of little, seemingly inconsequential things add up to large problems. For instance, at the Oscars, “having senior executives taking such a front-line role can be a recipe for trouble – they’re more likely to assume they’re going to do it right. Many accidents have been triggered by very experienced workers who grew overconfident and complacent — wilderness firefighters, for example, are most likely to be killed or injured in their 10th year on the job.”
Why (Almost) All Of Us Laugh
“Over a century ago, Henri Bergson, one of the first modern philosophers to think deeply on the subject, pointed out that laughter is an “inherently social” activity, and in recent decades, academics have found data to support this theory.”
How Julie Kent Is Transforming Washington Ballet
“One expects change when a new artistic director takes over, as Kent did half a year ago. But in Thursday’s opening-night performance at the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater, marking the start of the company’s spring season, it was clear that Kent’s touch is a subtle and sensitive one, apparent in such artistic intangibles as musicality, an apt quality of airiness and an overall attention to detail.”
Theatre Research Turned Into A Play
“Conducted with coresearcher (and Collaboraction intern) Mariah Schultz, the study is a look at female representation in various theater-industry job categories at theaters nominated for Jeff Awards for the 2015-2016 season. The data, which does not include musicals, covers 52 theaters and 250 plays. The results are sobering but not surprising.”
Report: Five Things You Should Know About Classical Music Audiences
The Audience Agency’s new report on national classical music audiences is based on an analysis of data from Audience Finder, the national cultural audience insight programme, covering classical music events from 2014 to 2016.
Really? SxSW Threatens Visiting Artists With Deportation If They “Misbehave”
“If SXSW determines, in its sole discretion, that Artist or its representatives have acted in ways that adversely affect the viability of Artist’s official SXSW showcase,” the contract states, then one of several actions can occur, including “SXSW [notifying] the appropriate U.S. immigration authorities of the above actions.”
Margaret Thatcher Campaigned Hard For Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Collection, Declassified Papers Reveal
And she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for that meddling Baroness.