The view from our window was ... dull - at least in the sense of the weather: a couple of hours of snow, and now it's switched to some dismal rain. But most of the day I was in conference sessions, hearing many many really good papers (and one woman who didn't seem to understand the concept of Timing, even after a cell phone timer gave her the nudge, and then she was given a verbal, very pointed nudge: some minutes [or so it felt] later - "so now I'll come to my conclusion." Reader - never, ever be that speaker).
Perhaps the most memorable image was that shown by Wanda Corn (who not only gave a great paper on Grant Wood, but had, deservedly, a wonderful reception) - of Wood's American Gothic, sculpted in butter by Norma "Duffy" Lyon, doyenne of butter sculpture and shown at the Iowa State Fair in 1996 (she also showed a slide of Lyon's fine butter cows).
And then a wonderful (early birthday) dinner at 53, which is - unsurprisingly - on 53rd street - and wins this trip's culinary prize, hands down: salmon carpaccio, and then miso black cod tossed up in some kind of crispy rice bowl, and then miso butterscotch icecream. I'm much looking forward to coming back to NYC, whatever the weather's like ...
Let us guess, the time-challenged speaker was a senior and/or established academic who believed they were doing everyone a favor by going over time.... That salmon dish looks like a work of art! Yum.
ReplyDeletehow could you *possibly* have guessed that! And yes! The salmon! I've discovered ne of my favorite ever dishes!
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