Posts Tagged Grand Dakar
Cosmopolitan Brooklyn – Bed Stuy.
January 9, 2010 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones At the performance in February at Le Dakar, Senegalese Chef Pierre Thiam’s Clinton Hill eatery, Kim Lyons, a poet opined, unlike in Manhattan, directions in Brooklyn are vague, things are not “between,” but near or far. There’s no real single grid in Brooklyn, but rather many grids, so being “off the [...]
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Tags: Afro-Gothik, Bed-Stuy, Grand Dakar, Kim Lyon, Pierre Thiam, Prospect Heights, Ratner
Food: Comfort and Generosity
December 31, 2009 by Administrator
by Patricia Spears Jones, July 2008 Food is a subject so fraught, I am not sure I want to deal with it. Of course, Atim who is tall and slender probably can eat anything she wants. But I am short and round and when I wasn’t looking the pounds begat pounds making food both a [...]
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Tags: Brooklyn, Food & Dining, Grand Dakar, Kumbaya, Pierre Thaim, Tom’s Diner