Mid-Week Libation: They Became Free and Brave and Grew Wings
Daniel Barenboim & The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, Anthony Bourdain's fish soup, floral photography from Mika Ninagawa, classic food writing from A. J. Liebling & iconic theater from Ntozake Shange!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
Music That Crosses Divides: Daniel Barenboim & The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
The Fabulous Floral Photography of Mika Ninagawa (b. October 18, 1972)
Recipe for a Favorite Local Dish: Anthony Bourdain's Soupe de Poisson (Fish Soup)
Click here for Anthony Bourdain’s delicious recipe for a classic fish soup from the South of France (via Food & Wine)!
Or click here for Anthony Bourdain’s Soupe de Poisson recipe via Martha Stewart!
Classic Food Writing: Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris by A. J. Liebling (October 18, 1904 – December 28, 1963)
Read an extract here (via Reader’s Digest) from Between Meals, which our hero Anthony Bourdain hailed as one of his favorite books: “He was an enthusiastic lover of food and wine, very knowledgeable but never a snob. It's the benchmark for great food writing.”
Iconic Theater: for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (October 18, 1948 – October 27, 2018)
Artists Born Today: October 18th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Luca Giordano, Canaletto, Alfonso Balzico, Charles Frederic Ulrich, Luca Postiglione, Augusta Preitinger, Adomas Galdikas, Angela Gregory, James Brooks, Jeanne Mandello, J. Jay McVicker, Reynold Brown, Jerry Cooke, Suzanne Perlman, Richard Stankiewicz, Ans Wortel, Inger Sitter, Charles O. Perry, Trevor Bell, Dorothea Rockburne, John Spaulding, Kiff Slemmons, Robert Hague, Mika Ninagawa and Kalamandalam Bindhulekha!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Zhu Xi, Mary Wroth, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Heinrich von Kleist, Thomas Love Peacock, Anténor Firmin, Henri Bergson, D. T. Suzuki, Mikhail Kuzmin, Fannie Hurst, A. J. Liebling, Norberto Bobbio, Eunice Odio, Beatrice Worsley, Katherine Kurtz, James Robert Baker, Ntozake Shange, Wendy Wasserstein, Terry McMillan, Bảo Ninh, Rick Moody, Charles Stross and Amish Tripathi!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Luca Marenzio, Lotte Lenya, Bobby Troup, Anita O'Day, Camilla Williams, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Chuck Berry, Maurice El Mediouni, Ronnie Bright, Paddy Reilly, Cynthia Weil, Billy Cox, Nelson Freire, Howard Shore, Laura Nyro, Catherine Ringer, Wynton Marsalis, Peter Svensson and esperanza spalding!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Roy Del Ruth, Victor Sen Yung, Grande Otelo, Melina Mercouri, George C. Scott, Calvin Lockhart, Dawn Wells, Joe Morton, Chuck Lorre, Milcho Manchevski, Zhou Xun, Natasha Rothwell, Zac Efron, Toby Regbo, Barry Keoghan and Cheryl Hole!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Mikhail Kuzmin (October 18, 1872 – March 1, 1936)
