THE EGG— FORM BEFORE TIME
Before the line, before the gesture, before the word, there was the egg.
In Greek thought, the cosmos itself began enclosed. The Orphic tradition speaks of a primordial egg—the cosmic shell—from which Phanes emerged, radiant and complete, containing light, order, and desire before any division of the world. Creation was not an explosion, but a careful opening.
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When Agave becomes couture: The Raise of a global maison.
A maison that does not seek to dazzle. It seeks to endure. In a landscape of trends and speed, Pastorale Series by Santo de Piedra and Massimo Bottura stands as a quiet statement: true luxury is slow, intentional, and alive. It invites the world not to possess, but to perceive. And now, finally, mezcal no longer needs to ask for a place at the table. It has earned its own.
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Macau, where cuisines learned to speak more than a language
There are cities that accumulate cultures, and others that ferment them. Macau belongs firmly to the latter. For more than four centuries, this small peninsula at the edge of the Pearl River Delta has functioned not as a border, but as a translation table—between China and Europe, between maritime Asia and the Atlantic world, between memory and adaptation. Few places on earth embody the idea of a culinary melting pot with such precision, restraint, and continuity.
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Ginori 1735 — The discipline of continuity
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Heritage, when genuine, is never decorative. It is structural.
Founded in 1735 near Florence, Ginori 1735 did not emerge from fashion or commerce, but from inquiry. Marquis Carlo Ginori was not seeking to imitate Chinese porcelain—he sought to understand it. The early years of the Manifattura di Doccia were marked by experimentation, failures, reformulations, and an almost scientific obsession with matter. What survived was not a style, but a method. Porcelain, at Ginori, was never treated as surface. It was treated as language.
When food becomes a form of farewell, Chibineko and the restaurant of the cats and the memories
There are books that do not ask to be interpreted, only accompanied. Chibineko — O Restaurante dos Gatos e das Memórias belongs to that quiet lineage of novels that understand something elemental, and therefore difficult to execute without sentimentality: food does not comfort because it distracts, but because it remembers.
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Pop-Tarts in Switzerland
When Scott Bessent joked in Switzerland that next time he would bring Pop-Tarts, after dismissing Swiss and German food, the comment was widely treated as harmless banter. A moment of cultural clumsiness. An anecdote not worth lingering on. It deserves lingering.
Bessent was not in Switzerland as the typical American tourist passing through. He was there as one of the most powerful economic figures in the United States, participating in high-level meetings at the very heart of the global financial system.