Issue 22, October 24, 2016
23 Oct
Presenting Nipsy
Presenting Nipsy
by Wisselwood Jane Marple de Jones Leighton Coleman, an old pal who has been consistently supportive of this website and of my earlier efforts in launching and …
23 Oct
MORE TEA, VICAR?
MORE TEA, VICAR?
by Alan Ross Alan Ross is a retired radio broadcaster who now lives in North East England. A quick trip through the archives of this website will reveal …
23 Oct
Gorky’s Genius
Gorky’s Genius
In the late-1970s and early 80s, I had fallen in love with Mexico. As one friend pointed out, it was close to home but still just …
23 Oct
Yesterdays, Part Sixteen
Yesterdays, Part Sixteen
“Yesterdays, yesterdays, Days I knew as happy sweet sequestered days Olden days, golden days, Days of mad romance and love . . . youth was mine, And truth was …
20 Oct
Shanghai Style
Shanghai Style
by Diana Hutchins Angulo Followers of this website are well familiar with the recollections of Diana Hutchins Angulo, a lady currently living in Philadelphia who, as the …
13 Oct
Noshes in the Neighborhood
Noshes in the Neighborhood
“Would you like to go for an ice cream?” At four o’clock on a late summer afternoon, the question was put to me by a close …
13 Oct
Pure Love
Pure Love
“Welcome: All Creeds, All Breeds. No Dogmas Allowed.” So reads the proclamation at the entrance to the Dog Chapel, the wonderful destination that sits on Dog …
13 Oct
A Sketch of Earl Mayan
A Sketch of Earl Mayan
Inveterate New Yorkers often grumble that the city has lost most of its charm. Among other complaints, these disgruntled long-time residents are quick to point …
06 Oct
Yesterdays, Part Fifteen
Yesterdays, Part Fifteen
“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in …
22 Sep
Fulfilling a Fantasy
Fulfilling a Fantasy
Planning an August holiday with Jane, the pampered Pug, I entered “dog-friendly accommodations, Northeast Kingdom, Vermont” in Google search. Instantly the Phineas Swann Bed & Breakfast …
08 Jul
Sleepless
Sleepless
In Just About Everywhere by Joe Arnstein Amsterdam was the best. That’s where I slept with two colleagues. But “best” really isn’t the right adjective. Maybe I should say …
08 Jul
On Old Cape Cod
On Old Cape Cod
It’s that time of year. Daydreams of iced tea and ice cream cones, clam rolls, gazpacho, and vichyssoise. Let’s get out of the city. Cape Cod? Beautiful, …
08 Jul
More Turkey
More Turkey
Volney Foster Righter died on August 27, 2003 at the age of 100. Nicknamed “Turkey” (as was his father, who was immortalized in Owen Johnson’s Lawrenceville …
06 Jul
About Borders
About Borders
As the name suggests, the Border Terrier has its origin on either side of the Cheviot Hills which form the Border country, and may be …
27 May
Yesterdays, Part Fourteen
Yesterdays, Part Fourteen
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” —Eudora Welty Here, once again, is a miscellaneous assemblage of photographs put together from my own albums and …
08 Apr
Pugs As Inspiration
Pugs As Inspiration
Anyone familiar with this website will know that it is partial to Pugs. It should not be surprising, therefore, that when considering an article on …
07 Apr
Artist in Residence
Artist in Residence
An Interview with David Moscoso Estupiñan Art historian and friend Alicia Lubowski-Jahn introduced me to the exquisite paintings of this contemporary Ecuadorian artist and I am …
07 Apr
Where…
Where…
. . . shall we have dinner tonight? It’s a question frequently asked by friends here in New York as well as by out-of-town visitors. What …
07 Apr
Granny’s Dishes
Granny’s Dishes
by Leighton Hammond Coleman III Citizen Kane had his sleigh, Rosebud, and Proust had his madeleines. I have my Chinese export porcelain and each piece transports me …
06 Apr
Yesterdays, Part Thirteen
Yesterdays, Part Thirteen
“The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.” —Andy Warhol Here, once again, is a miscellaneous assemblage …
12 Dec
Shanghai in the Thirties
Shanghai in the Thirties
Further Recollections by Diana Hutchins Angulo It was with great pleasure that I recently read “The Man Who Changed the Face of Shanghai” in the New York Times. …
11 Dec
College Memories
College Memories
and How I Might Have Caused the Blackout of November 1965 by Joe Arnstein Going away to college today seems truly an electrifying experience. Or maybe that should just be …
11 Dec
Working Dogs
Working Dogs
No, this is not going to be a discussion of seeing-eye dogs or search and rescue dogs or dogs for the deaf. Nor will it …
10 Dec
Fare for the Holiday
Fare for the Holiday
by Alan Ross Culinary aspects of a distinctly British Christmas? Well, over here in the UK the most popular and traditional holiday edibles certainly have ingredients that are …
08 Dec
Yesterdays, Part Twelve
Yesterdays, Part Twelve
“Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? For auld lang syne, my dear, for auld lang syne, we’ll take …
17 Oct
In Maine
In Maine
As an admittedly provincial New Yorker, I was not surprised to bring home memories of scenic splendor from an extended holiday in Maine; bringing home …
17 Oct
Twentieth Century Limited
Part Two
Twentieth Century Limited
Part Two
As mentioned in issue sixteen, the next few editions of this “Portraits” section of Orangeandmagenta.com will be devoted to some excerpts from the interviews I …
17 Oct
Glorious Greyhounds
Glorious Greyhounds
“Swift as a ray of light, graceful as a swallow, and wise as a Solomon, there is some basis for the prediction that the Greyhound …
15 Oct
The Weaver
The Weaver
An Interview with Nicholas William Sebastian Ozanne Leafing through an English magazine, I came across an article about a gentleman in the Cotswolds who was pursuing …
28 Aug
Yesterdays, Part Eleven
Yesterdays, Part Eleven
“A PENSIVE photograph Watches me from the shelf— Ghost of old love, and half Ghost of myself! —“To a Portrait,” Arthur Symons Here, once again, is a miscellaneous assemblage …
11 Jun
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
Diana Mara Henry’s photography was celebrated with a portfolio of her work in the sixth issue (March 28, 2012) of this website. It was a …
11 Jun
Twentieth Century Limited
Twentieth Century Limited
For more than thirty years I’ve been interviewing people who have had interesting lives and interesting stories to tell. These shared stories are in themselves …
11 Jun
Mother’s Ruin
Mother’s Ruin
“Get me a bromide—and put some gin in it!” —Flora, Countess DeLave, The Women (1939) This section of the website is usually devoted to food and …
23 May
Some Alabama Pugs
Some Alabama Pugs
Joy Barnwell Patty of Piedmont, Alabama, is a Facebook friend with whom I connected as a result of our shared love of Pugs. Since she …
03 May
Yesterdays, Part Ten
Yesterdays, Part Ten
“Take good care of time, how you spend it, for nothing is more precious than time. In …
24 Mar
Some Gotham Taste Treats
Some Gotham Taste Treats
Question: what defines delicious? For you, is it an absolutely mouth-watering cheeseburger served up with perfect fries? Or maybe some memorable meal of your mom’s…or the lobster …
24 Mar
En France
En France
A Visit with Baron Francois-Xavier de Sambucy de Sorgue “In the moat! Two kids are stuck in the moat and they don’t know how to get …
24 Mar
About Dog Training
About Dog Training
Far be it from me to give away any family secrets. Based on my experiences with three formidable representatives of the breed, however, I would have …
12 Mar
Yesterdays, Part Nine
Yesterdays, Part Nine
“All these places had their moment With lovers and friends I still can recall. Some are dead and some are living. In my life …
23 Feb
Further Travels
Further Travels
with Alan Ross In the last edition of this website I advised readers to “Keep Calm and Travel North.” The hope was that Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, …
29 Oct
Travel North!
Travel North!
by Alan Ross According to Google Analytics, readers of Orange and Magenta can be found all over the world. Many are discovered in the United States of …
23 Oct
The Pointer, the Pizza, and Other Tales
The Pointer, the Pizza, and Other Tales
“Short, smooth coat, liver-and-white. Special skills: pointing and retrieving. Subject to hip dysplasia . . . Devoted, enthusiastic, amiable. Too restless, though, to do as …
23 Oct
The Street Artist
The Street Artist
An Interview with Terry Ogata Along Fifth Avenue, between the Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim, dozens of vendors offer a wide variety of arts, crafts, and …
23 Oct
The Proustian Gourmet
The Proustian Gourmet
Remembrances of Restaurants Past “We’ll go to Yonkers Where true love conquers In the wilds. And starve together, dear, In Childs. We’ll go to Coney And eat baloney On a roll.” — “Manhattan,” lyrics …
03 Oct
Yesterdays, Part Eight
Yesterdays, Part Eight
“The Rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the Rose, The Moon doth with delight Look round her when the heavens are bare, Waters on a starry night Are beautiful …
13 Aug
Yesterdays, Part Seven
Yesterdays, Part Seven
“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.” —OSCAR WILDE, The …
26 Jul
The Professor
The Professor
An Interview with Claude Carrier Québec City native Claude Carrier has long roots in that province. His father, Paul-René Carrier, a respected restaurateur, was a Montréal …
26 Jul
A Requiem for Finger Bowls
A Requiem for Finger Bowls
In her mid-eighties, Edith Wilmerding Montgomery was tall, thin, formidable, and blessed with an equine face that Modigliani would have loved. “You know,” she pronounced in …
26 Jul
Mark and Humphrey
Mark and Humphrey
“With my heart set on getting a Pug, I looked on the Internet and was very lucky for, quite quickly, I found someone nearby whose …
26 Jul
A Tea Glossary
A Tea Glossary
“Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea? How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.” —SYDNEY SMITH, Lady Holland’s …
13 May
Yesterdays, Part Six
Yesterdays, Part Six
Look back on Time, with kindly eyes— He doubtless did his best— How softly sinks that trembling sun In Human Nature’s West— —EMILY DICKINSON, ca. 1879 Once again, here is …
13 May
The Writer
The Writer
A Conversation with Patrick Ryan Where and when were you born? Where did you grow up? I was born in Washington, DC. If I’d been born two …
13 May
A Celebration of Sleuths
A Celebration of Sleuths
Who done it? The long-suffering wife? The Lord of the Manor? The respected physician? The ex-detective? The frustrated spinster daydreaming of a proper tea shop? Who? No need …
13 May
On the Farm
On the Farm
Comfortably relaxing on the overstuffed sofa, gentle country sounds in the background, I suddenly realized I was under intense scrutiny. It was at the home of …
13 May
Breakfast in America
Breakfast in America
and Other Memorable Meals by Alan Ross Recently retired from Magic 1170 (Stockton-on-Tees, UK), radio broadcaster Alan Ross had an earlier article, “The British Invasion,” in Issue 5 of …
18 Feb
Travel Notes
Travel Notes
by Joe Arnstein My passport has fifty-two pages. It replaces my old one that had forty-eight, which I renewed before it expired because it was almost full. …
18 Feb
Selecting a Successor
Selecting a Successor
A French Bulldog? . . . Cavalier King Charles Spaniel? . . . Corgi? . . . Golden Retriever? . . . Norwegian Elk Hound? …
18 Feb
The Captain Cooks
The Captain Cooks
Traditional Basque wisdom has it that “to know how to eat is to know enough.” This bit of insight introduces a cozy, appealing, and easy-to-follow cookbook …
18 Feb
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs
by Diana Hutchins Angulo Diana Angulo, the subject of the first in this series of Portraits, had been watching Downton Abbey, and was reminded of another aspect …
05 Feb
Yesterdays, Part Five
Yesterdays, Part Five
“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.” —JANE AUSTEN, Pride and Prejudice …
19 Dec
Yesterdays, Part Four
Yesterdays, Part Four
“Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not …
19 Dec
War and Remembrance
War and Remembrance
World War I . . . World War II . . . Korea . . . Vietnam . . . Iraq . . . Afghanistan. Twentieth-century …
19 Dec
On with the Show!
On with the Show!
Like people, some dogs are natural showmen and love to be in the spotlight while others, more modest perhaps, prefer private pleasures. Jinx, of Stony Brook, …
19 Dec
Memories of Mother and Other Things
Memories of Mother and Other Things
A few years before he died in 2005, Alexander Harrison Brawner, Jr., described in his obituary as a “global banker and enthusiastic traveler who circled …
19 Dec
DC Dining
DC Dining
by Mary Mendle Bird Washington has been transformed since I first landed here as a post-graduate student in the mid 1960s. In those days, the fare was …
16 Oct
Remembering Robert
Remembering Robert
Courtly. It’s a word that is seldom used anymore, but it is the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Robert Treboux, the recently …
16 Oct
Pug Invasions
Pug Invasions
It all began some thirty years ago, shortly after I’d fallen in love with the breed and welcomed Mame, my first Pug, home. It was a …
16 Oct
Yesterdays, Part Three
Yesterdays, Part Three
“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” —attributed to Mark Twain And commenting on history, the perceptive and well-regarded English biographer Anne de Courcy has observed …
16 Oct
All about Rugs
All about Rugs
An Interview with Fred Blair How did you initially get involved with rugs? I had just finished my BA in English at Columbia College, and needed to …
16 Oct
The Texan
The Texan
In 1999 on his ranch just outside of Sierra Blanca, the county seat of Hudspeth County, Texas, Roy Jackson would stroll in his cactus garden …
31 Jul
Yesterdays, Part Two
Yesterdays, Part Two
“In the convex driving-mirror she could see, dwindling rapidly, the patch of road where they had stood; and she wondered why it had never occurred …
31 Jul
On Being a Restaurant Critic
On Being a Restaurant Critic
After Malcolm Forbes of Forbes magazine died in February 1990, there was some question as to whether or not his popular feature reviewing New York …
31 Jul
The Last of the Belles
The Last of the Belles
Frances Jackson died on June 22, 2012. According to her granddaughter, Claire Carpenter, “while death is never welcome, it was not unexpected by her, and she …
31 Jul
Walking the Dog
Walking the Dog
In the long ago years when Robert Wagner was the mayor of New York City, well before reality television’s Dogs in the City, and the …
31 Jul
Blueprint for Boomers
Blueprint for Boomers
by Joe Arnstein I’m older than you are. Well, probably. The great population bulge called the Baby Boomers refers to the seventy-eight million Americans born between 1946 and 1964. I …
02 Jul
Yesterdays
Yesterdays
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.” — EUGENE O’NEILL, Long Day’s Journey Into Night Looking back at the oldest people we knew …
24 May
Two New York Ladies
Two New York Ladies
“One curious thing I remember is the cattle going through the block at night, waking my sister and me. “Sixty-fifth Street was a through street then. …
23 May
Delicious
Delicious
Not so long ago, a mention of English food often brought snickers from foodies, self-proclaimed gourmets, and the French. There was, of course, afternoon tea, …
23 May
An American Folk Artist
An American Folk Artist
Jim Lewis Little glazed earthenware badgers crawling around a table in County Durham in the Northeast of England; saints flamboyantly painted on tin decorating walls in …
23 May
Six Signals from Ginger
Six Signals from Ginger
by Mark Gaige After Ginger, my Cocker Spaniel, died at the age of thirteen on Thanksgiving Day 2010, I suffered as never before. A friend, a fellow dog …
28 Mar
The Debutante
The Debutante
For most of the twentieth century, Society with a capital “S” consisted of very specific and recognizable segments of the population. There was blue-blood Society …
28 Mar
Best Friends
Best Friends
When speaking of dogs, the expression “man’s best friend” is said to be the shorthand version of a quote from an 1870 courtroom speech given …
22 Mar
Diana Mara Henry
Diana Mara Henry
An Album of Her Photographs Chuck Fry, an elegant colleague at Time-Life Books, introduced me to Diana Henry in the early 1970s. He told me that …
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