The Cooper-Hewitt is a quirky little museum, an outpost of the Smithsonian Institution located on New York City’s Museum Mile. It occupies the graceful Andrew Carnegie mansion at the corner of 91st and Fifth Avenue, across the street from Central Park and a few blocks north of the Guggenheim Museum. Unlike the Guggenheim, […]
The Pasha loves Konstanze and wants to add her to his Turkish harem, but not by force, only if she can return his love. She, a shipwrecked Spanish noblewoman stranded on an alien shore, has already given her heart to another and resolves to be faithful to her Belmonte, even though the […]
First, pick the huckleberries.
Huckleberries have not been successfully tamed and are not grown commercially. You can’t pop into Safeway and pick up a can of Wyman’s huckleberries. So, the first step in making muffins is to find a patch of wild huckleberries.
Some years ago my friend Carol introduced […]