We love Elizabeth David and M.F.K. Fisher and was thrilled to be nominated for the Beard's MFKF award last year. Every day on the overcrowded LIRR we escape into "An Omelette and a Glass of Wine" where every word is evocative... olive, wine, bread gets the reader off to a great start.

Symposia endeavors to really care about paintings, sculpture, visual things and the like, but ultimately it seems they are just items imbued with value by collectors of no particular refinement or education.( We don't mean della Francesca or Vermeer but basically anything post-Duchamp.)