February 21

I'd like to start a new "series" -- Choose Your Dream Restaurant -- where I'd dream of what would be my favorite restaurant ever. Lots of the images are from
http://www.artistsandart.org/2011/06/cafe-paintings-19th-and-20th-centuries.html

-- though the first is of a restaurant that exists today, in Amsterdam, called D'Vijff Vlieghen. In the words of Intermezzo's issue 27, the restaurant "occupies 5 interconnecting 17th-century houses and is a mini-museum of rooms filled with period furniture, antiques, and paintings." See more at
http://vijffvlieghen.nl/en/Home

Speaking of food, happy national Sticky Bun Day!

Some of my favorite entertainers were born today -- Nina Simone in 1933 and Erma Bombeck in 1927 and W.H. Auden in 1907. It's also when the first issue of the New Yorker was published, in 1925.