In the late 60s, one of my favorite painters, Philip Guston abandoned his sublime abstract paintings for images of clumsy cartoonish klansmen driving around smoking, painting, and looking for trouble. Of the transition, Guston said “… when the 1960s came along I was feeling split, schizophrenic. The war, what was happening in America, the brutality of the world. What kind of a man am I, sitting at home, reading magazines, going into a frustrated fury about everything – and then going into my studio to adjust a red to a blue.” Guston’s topsy-turvy compositions, wry humor, and acrid-yet-beautiful palette are good enough reasons to love any painter, but I love him most because he threw away the beautiful and confronted the ugliness of the real world instead. [Read more…]
strawberry spinach salad with bacon
A vibrant strawberry spinach salad recipe topped with crumbled bacon and tossed in a simple, smoky bacon fat vinaigrette.
steak and kale salad with spring herb chimichurri
A seared steak and kale salad topped with a vibrant spring herb chimichurri. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
autumn’s pink house kraut
A bright pink, intensely flavored red cabbage sauerkraut recipe from Autumn Giles’ Beyond Canning, New Techniques, Ingredients, and flavors to Preserve, Pickle, and Ferment Like Never Before. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]
purple slaw with turmeric orange vinaigrette
A vivid late winter purple slaw made with red cabbage, radicchio, and purple carrots and tossed with a fresh turmeric and orange vinaigrette. Jump to recipe. [Read more…]