Word: orients
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...second message was that anything goes; the ironclad, oppressive dos and don'ts of classic cooking vanished. French chefs reached out to the Orient for ingredients and preparations and broke all the rules. Suddenly, creative minds went to work, often overzealously. "I don't want to be like everyone else," says Bradley Ogden, the 32-year-old chef who performs diligently if unevenly at San Francisco's Campton Place Hotel, proving that individuality itself is not the prize...
...paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists, but also for about a dozen Cubist buildings and countless objects of applied art. Now it also hosts a restored Cubist café that first opened in 1912 and closed 12 years later. Grand Café Orient is the joint effort of Czech restaurateur and art collector Rudolf Brinek and the National Gallery in Prague. It reopened in March on the second floor of the House at the Black Madonna, a Cubist building downtown that also contains a gallery of Czech Cubism and a shop selling expensive...
...only for paintings by Emil Filla or sculpture by Otto Gutfreund, both Czech Cubist artists, but also for about a dozen Cubist buildings and countless objects of applied art. Now it also hosts a restored Cubist caf? that first opened in 1912 and closed 12 years later. Grand Caf? Orient is the joint effort of Czech restaurateur and art collector Rudolf Brinek and the National Gallery in Prague. It reopened in March on the second floor of the House at the Black Madonna, a Cubist building downtown that also contains a gallery of Czech Cubism and a shop selling expensive...
...Nebenzahl's title somewhat misleadingly suggests, the parameters of this collection coincide roughly with those of Asia. The "silk road" here distends geographically and semantically to encompass any and all lands east of Western Europe. But the Orient is more than a geographic orientation for the collection?it is an evolving and affecting idea. Nebenzahl's mapmakers?with only two exceptions?are Westerners, and the pictures they drew of unknown lands reveal more about Europe's imagination than Asia's landscape...
...renowned work, Orientalism, the scholar Edward Saïd proclaims, “the Orient was almost a Western invention.” Saïd illustrates that the misconceptions the West created about the Middle East degraded Arab society into an “other;” a diametrically opposed stranger. Presently, we seem to have many strangers in the Middle East and far fewer friends. While U.S. goals to steer Arab states towards democracy may be noble, perhaps respectfully reengaging the Arabs would heed better results than last week’s tragedy...