About the author
Eschatological Butter
Though I am a devout Christian, I don't have a problem with Feuerbach's famously cynical aphorism, "man is what he eats." Of course, as a materialist 19th Century German philosopher, he was attempting to assert, with a certain amount of wit, a vision of human life devoid of any transcendence in which we all are but meat. But I embrace and celebrate the fact that I am what I eat and food and cooking are surely som...
Minimalist Paradoxes
"Today the happening thing is just what is happening. We have reached the end of 'isms'." So Stephen Bayley lamented in his article entitled "Does Minimalism Matter?" commenting on the current exhibition John Pawson’s Plain Space at the Design Museum in London. He forecasted an obituary of sorts for minimalism, that unrivaled arch-snob of the art world; in fact, it was that minimalism has lost its throne that l...
