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...that the English have only three vegetables, two of them cabbage. However, English-born Jane Garmey roams far and wide to bag the better culinary hand-me-downs. Though a number of great Continental chefs left their imprint on upper-class English fare-Carême, Escoffier, Francatelli and Soyer all lived for years in London-the good things today come almost entirely from peasantry and province. A well-made Lancashire hot pot, a deep casserole of lamb chops and kidneys, ranks with a French pot-au-feu. Even shepherd's pie, particularly in Garmey's jazzed...
DIED. Isaac Soyer, 79, Russian-born painter and the youngest of three artist brothers (the others: Raphael and Moses), who shunned abstraction to portray New York street scenes and working-class people in a style of lyrical realism; in New York City...
LOST IN AMERICA by Isaac Bashevis Singer Illustrations by Raphael Soyer Doubleday; 259 pages...
...people forsake all reason.") In time, Singer was to find a greater passion: writing. It is the one truly requited affair in the book, and it makes every page shine with a wit and vigor that belie the author's 73 years. Further illuminations are provided by Raphael Soyer's nostalgic drawings and paintings, every one of which is a complement to the text and a compliment to the reader...
Stella painted gas tanks, smoke stacks, the Brooklyn Bridge. He liked to call New York City his "wife." The city keeps recurring in the exhibition; it is its only clear image and might have been the subject of a coherent but less compendious effort. Raphael Soyer has a wonderfully weighty picture of the massive foundations of the Williamsburg Bridge with little red Surprise Laundry wagons lined up at the curb ready to make deliveries. In the '30s George Grosz did a series of watercolors: a childlike view of the harbor and a lurid skyline. Piet Mondrian, who spent...