at the sign of The Pink Pig

Cochon 555: Pork Frenzy At The Maritime

[Pigging by Wilfrid: January 26, 2009]

All you fussy-beaks might as well just move along, there's nothing to see here. The photos will be bad, details lacking, and I don't even have a conclusion to the story.

 

Actually, that's about as good as the pictures get, and it's pretty much a waffle with schlag.  I mean, I bet there's some pork in there somewhere, but it seemed like dessert to me.

The Sight Of Art: Clark On Poussin

[The Cunning Tower by Wilfrid:  January 26, 2009]

How is the experience of looking at art in this relatively new millenium linked to thinking about time, about death, and about the politics of the image - and ethics and politics generally?

London Again: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  January 26, 2009]

Back from the Dominican Republic, I set off almost immediately from New York to London to take care of personal business.  First, though, a snack.

Analyzing Shang

[Pigging by Wilfrid: January 19, 2009]

First, you need a proper introduction to Susur Lee.  Sure, the new restaurant Shang in the Thompson LES Hotel had a controlled amount of pre-publicity late last year.

And certainly the photogenic Mr Lee has been interviewed and pictured here and there in the run-up to his first New York venture.

Puerto Plata And Santo Domingo: Ten Years Ago

[Ping Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  January 19. 2009]

Looking out on an Avenue gripped by powdery frost this morning as the temperature climbs reluctantly out of the teens, it is pleasant to reflect on the beach at Puerto Plata where I was walking ten years ago today.

New Year Sandwich Bash Part 2

[Pigging by Wilfrid: January 12, 2009]

In which we learn again, the hard way, not to believe what you read?  Or...

Never mind the beef - where's the pork, where's the duck?

Calder's Circus And The Story Behind "Valkyrie"

[New York Peasant by Wilfrid:  January 12, 2009]

On a chilly, snow-swept Saturday, an afternoon at the Whitney followed by an evening at the flicks.  Or motion pictures, as Hollywood likes to call them.

Al Caribe: Ten Years Ago

[Pink Pig Time Machine by Wilfrid:  January 12, 2009]

To Santo Domingo right after New Year, 1999, and my first true experience of Dominican cuisine.  Time for me to pontificate.  There is almost no national or regional cuisine unworthy of analysis.

New Year Sandwich Bash Part 1

[Pigging by Wilfrid:  January 5, 2009]

Farewell to the holidays, which started pleasantly enough but finished with a flurry of unwelcome attacks on my computer and my health, in that order.  The former is recovered, the latter improving, but the overture to 2009 will be humble nonetheless.  Some sandwiches what I ate.

 

Part one this week, part two next week, and then we'll see if we can put on a jacket and tie and sit up straight for a proper dinner.

Quick Bites: Devi's Restructured Menu

[Pigging by Wilfrid:  January 5, 2009]

British ex-patriates suffer periodic cravings for a good Indian meal.  In Manhattan, that usually means Devi, and there I repaired with some fellow exiles between Christmas and New Year.

Unless, of course, by "good Indian meal" you mean a big curry - you know, chicken vindaloo, pilau rice, onion bhaji and a pint of lager.  In which case, there are some serviceable East Village options.