The Woman Who Drew the Map
A review of Janet Wallach's Desert Queen — the biography of Gertrude Bell, the woman who helped draw the borders of modern Iraq and was ignored for understanding them too well.
Books
To Cook Is to Refuse to Forget
A review of Stanley Tucci's Taste — on food as cultural memory, immigrant kitchens, and what illness reveals about why we eat.
Good Enough to Stop Explaining Itself
A curated selection from the Gazette — a Paris market, a Danish farm, a Belgian restaurant, two kitchen tools, and a novel about appetite.