no. 56: picture book creatures - by TW Lim
This is an essay about one of the relationships that emerges between guests and restaurants. Sometime before the age of Instagram, Diana and I went to the Fat Duck, which at the time was still the kind of restaurant to which you made a pilgrimage. The Fat Duck is located in the village of Bray, a bucolic fantasy about an hour outside London. It had about as many houses as you expect a place called a village to have, of approximately the right character, and we had to walk down an actual country lane, sunlit and leaf-lined, to get from the train station to the village center.
This is an essay about one of the relationships that emerges between guests and restaurants. Sometime before the age of Instagram, Diana and I went to the Fat Duck, which at the time was still the kind of restaurant to which you made a pilgrimage. The Fat Duck is located in the village of Bray, a bucolic fantasy about an hour outside London. It had about as many houses as you expect a place called a village to have, of approximately the right character, and we had to walk down an actual country lane, sunlit and leaf-lined, to get from the train station to the village center. Once in the…
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