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...Nawabs of Awadh - princes renowned for their sybarite lifestyle - is now a down-at-the-heel city 500 km southwest of Delhi. But it retains one royal passion: food. India's finest lamb dishes derive from Awadhi cuisine, the ultimate expression of which is the delicate Kakori kebab, a cigar-shaped delight produced in a hamlet of that name half an hour's drive from Lucknow. Local legend says it was created for a toothless prince, and it's easy to see why. Made from finely ground mutton, infused with cloves, cinnamon and other spices, the Kakori is so soft...
...step closer, and they dissolve into a force field of bristling molecules. Step back again, and they also appear like paper cutouts, flat and stiff. Are they enjoying themselves or just impersonating themselves? It won?t do to ask the monumental couple on the right - he with the cigar, she with the monkey. Like just about everyone else in this painting, both have the immobile gaze of the Sphinx...
...just a matter of color and light. It lies in Seurat?s endlessly absorbing and ambiguous notion - to show modern men and women bearing the signs of their daily life into eternity, so that even their pettiest, most comical vanities become part of something stately and immemorial. His cigar, her monkey - no less than the Sphinx, they belong to the ages...
KEEPSAKES The icon smokes a cigar in most of the Che Guevara Postcards (Phaidon), a cigar-box full of vintage shots, on sale in September
...Great White Men—George Washington and Alexander Hamilton—were inaugurated and buried, respectively, was still the domain of white men of questionable greatness. In New York’s financial district, I was a woman in a place run by men and for men: the cigar-smoking, Wall Street Journal-toting men who think green and carry themselves with a self-importance that makes the Harvard man look, well, modest...