Thoughts on where and who we are
City girl with a forest heart.
Decades ago, I escaped the Islamic world and came to the West. Many don't know how good the West is, or how fragile. I fight for the restoration of what made the West great.
A weekly selection of my personal archives, written, photos, videos, menus, and other visual materials, on eating, cooking, and travel from the simplest to the grandest, everyone from local fishermen to the world’s most famous names. Hope you like it!
History and gossip about cool stuff at auction, with an emphasis on antique jewelry (but also lots of weird)
We are living through an epistemological crisis. The concept of subjectivity has all but replaced the concept of fact. Political and commercial falsehood are protected as free speech. Objective reality is regarded as an illegitimate concept.