Sunday afternoon I was at the The Tenth Annual NYC International Pickle Day where pickles from around the world were featured, celebrated and sampled—list of participants here. The event is organized by the New York Food Museum & The Lower East Side Business Improvement District. This year the Umami Food & Art Festival curated the [...]
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Chantons Les Cornichons!
October 19th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Chansons · Food Sources · Manhattan · News · Nicole's Writings
Augustus Saint Gaudens On Line
September 13th, 2010 · No Comments
The Adam’s memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. This sculpture was commissioned by Henry Adams who asked Saint-Gaudens to create a memorial for his wife, Clover Adam, who had taken her own life . Those who have been following both my blog & facebook postings, might remember the various references I make on Augustus Saint [...]
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Tsatsawassa 11th annual Poetry BBQ
July 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Saturday July 3rd 2010 was the 11th annual Tsatsawassa Poetry BBQ. Once again Bernadette Mayer & Phil Good opened their house to soulful poetry & food. Master of ceremony Dave Brinks flew from Nola with coolers filled with what might be the last delicacies from Louisiana for a while. This year’s festival mood was blackened [...]
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Up-Coming Shows
June 23rd, 2010 · No Comments
NP—From Concert Series @ Local269 / May 2010 Graduation, birthdays, family visits, drawings, preparation for up-coming shows kept me away from the computer, but here is the schedule for the next few weeks. We hope to see you at these very exiting shows: Sunday June 27th Metropolitan Museum 1:00PM “Picasso, Pablo Ruiz: Spanish Poet Who [...]
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The D’Artagnan 25th Anniversary Art Show
February 20th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Wow! Since I returned from Chicago I have not had a chance to post to the blog. It has been insanely busy: There is the ongoing work on Augustus Saint Gaudens with the documentary script writing advancing slowly but steadily. I am trying to clarify some aspects of his father’s life —Bernard Saint-Gaudens— in their [...]
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Lo Magret goes to Paris!
January 12th, 2010 · 7 Comments
André Daguin, chef/owner of the Hôtel de France in Auch (Gers) until 1997, tells how he gave a new life to the tasty magret de canard — and made it famous in the process: “The magret was served only as “confit” in soups, cassoulets and everyone would find it dry. The only way to avoid [...]
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En Route!
November 23rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Fear Factor Nov. 3, 2004 painting by N.P (part of the Angoulème performance) I really miss writing the blog regularly but a couple of deadlines have kept me totally busy. One of them is the preparation of the performance with Pierre Joris & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte that will happen this coming Thursday in Angoulême (France). No [...]
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Back!
October 13th, 2009 · No Comments
What I miss most when I travel is cooking my own food. During my trip to Boston, Springfield (MA) & Cornish (NH) nothing I hate was memorable, though all very decent. The highlight was definitely a vegetable chowder and a lobster roll at the Windsor (VT) train station. The focus on my trip was not [...]
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Transit & Cranes
July 18th, 2009 · No Comments
After a long trip we arrived in my hometown, Luchon, in the Central Pyrenées. There is very little time to process pictures and notes gathered daily. Since we got here, it has been an uninterrupted stream of aperitifs, meals, digestifs with family and friends. For now I will report on our transit day in Paris [...]
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Le Paté de Ken
July 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment
We are trying to settle a minimum into our new place before taking off for 6 weeks in France/Luxembourg. We will mostly be in the Southwest though the first week in the Southeast, then a final week in Luxembourg. If you are traveling around these areas come and see us! Pierre will be at the [...]
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