September 2010
3 posts
What a princess goes for today
Diego Velázquez, Maria Teresa of Spain, 1652
The princess Infanta Maria Teresa, a subject of my Habsburg project, had a dowry of roughly 500,000 French Écus (according to Wikipedia). Her arranged marriage to (double first cousin) King Louis XIV, the “Sun King”, was a highly important union. France and Spain had been endlessly fighting during the Thirty Years’ War,...
Conversation, it's what's for dinner
Jack Pierson, Listen, darling 2007
Four weeks to the hour in advance, Felix called to make a reservation for our 5th anniversary. We had gone to Eleven Madison the last 3 times, it being our favorite fine dining restaurant in the city. Last year, the resto received 4 stars from the NYT (thanks Frank Bruni) and has now become extremely...
Into The Wild, Pt. 3: The Final Chapter
Now where was I?
Yes… the rain kept at it all night. In the morning, Emelie, Felix and I met around the kitchen stove for some pancakes. We dipped them into jam and chocolate. Felix and I were feeling lazy, and had slept in until something like 9 or 10 (in camping land, that’s an extreme lie in). All of us agreed we had a perfect night’s rest.
“Now,” Emelie pipes...