flâneur

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  • “I had heard that there was a farmer’s wife running a restaurant in her house, serving Irish food and writing the menu every day depending on what was in the garden,” said the woman, Darina O’Connell Allen. “You can’t imagine how revolutionary all of that was at the time.” None of these women knew it, but they would all pursue the same radical culinary goals: to break the stranglehold of French haute cuisine in the English-speaking world; to cook seasonal food, grown sustainably; to cook with respect for traditional home cooks and simple, excellent dishes.
    Reclaiming Ireland’s Culinary Heritage, One Roast Lamb or Sponge Cake at a Time - The New York Times
  • What problem is it solving? Who has this problem? Who are they competing against? How are they solving this problem differently? How does it make money? How was your experience using this product?
    How to improve product sense: A practical guide | Austin Yang
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding