Part 1: Food — The Religion of the Table
The Sacred and the Everyday
There is a moment, about three bites into your first real French meal, when something shifts. It is not just that the food tastes good — though it does, intensely. It is that you realize you have been eating wrong your entire life. Not badly, necessarily. But wrong. As if you had been speaking a language with...
Part I: Genesis – The Mellon Dream
1.1 The Patrician’s Gift
The National Gallery of Art is unique among the world’s great museums. The Louvre was a royal palace. The British Museum grew from a physician’s cabinet of curiosities. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was a consortium of financiers. But the NGA was the singular vision of one man: Andrew W. Mellon...
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