The first big green apples are always too soft. They come early in mid summer and by the first week of August, have already dropped half their crop to the ground. The deer will eat them but seem to prefer harder fleshed and sweeter red delicious nearby. Some are called Ginger Gold - you can push on their flesh with your finger.
They are easy to harvest, for they are barely holding on to their branch - they show their weight. They are too soft for baking, too tart for the passerby. They are the first to be juiced in the new season.
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But I make applesauce of them. Pick a dozen of them - wash them in cold water, cut them into quarters, and put them, skin, seeds and all, in a sturdy pot with a good lid. Turn the heat to medium or so, add pinch of salt, pinch of cinnamon, some white sugar and the juice of 1/2 a lemon. Maybe a tablespoon of water. And cover.
You will need to stay close, and stir a little to mix. But very soon, you will have an active white cloud of apples, bubbling and softening. Stir so nothing burns and everything gets the heat - it is a lovely mess of white pulp.
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They will all soften, push on the mass with a wooden spoon, until they are all soft - not mush, but soft, and close. When you make applesauce later in the season, it is a lovely red and brown coloring. But this sauce is of its own, so pale and new.
Let it cool for twenty minutes, then run it all through a hand turning Italian food mill, that will collect skin and seeds and such. Taste it - you can add a bit of white sugar if it is still too tart.
The applesauce should then be covered well and chilled. It is the announcer of fall and goes perfectly with meats and yogurt, with cobblers and berries, with soft cakes and scones. With summer.
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Freeing Architecture : Junya Ishigami
Fondation Cartier, 2021 Paris, 320pp, 10"x14" paper, $50
A large-format, storybook-like celebration of Ishigami’s elegant, light-filled landscape architecture and buildings.
"When it comes to the innumerable things of the world,
the innumerable demands and challenges of this world,
perhaps we need to interpret architecture more freely.
Approach it more openly."
A lovely piece this, in itself and as an expression of Ishigami. Parts of the book are playful and fun, but in all, there is a very conscious intent to move forward. To create an architecture of a thousand responses, an architecture linked to time and nature and people, in swaths.
18 projects are folded within the presentation, commented upon. Where the projects are for children, a kindergarten or cultural center, the book becomes child like. Where the projects are intricate, historical, the details are to make clear - " An enormous roof as sky. Floor as land". In this time of great needs, Ishigami is indeed freeing architecture.
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This is an extended reprint, to honor the 2021 Pritzker Prize winners, and a brilliant review of their work and projects. They are the very best of modernist, intuitionist, sustainist, realist, dramatist. They are French, as the soccer team is French, from many sources and places and instincts, all bent on the best possible solutions.
Thirty works and projects are presented. in color and in details, They are brave enough to take on the most impossible projects, housing developments that have failed, social dwellings that have repelled. With relentless spirit and then phenomenal detail, they have raised the breath. They are the French tranformationists! To preserve, to not destroy, to save space, to save light.
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This is a remarkable collection, virtually all of the archived drawings of Lewerentz. Originally in two paperback volumes. the editors of a+u have combined the material into one large 418 page volume. It is to occasion the opening of the exhibit on Lewerentz, coming this October to Stockholm.
The drawings are arranged and presented chronologically, then bracketed with the wonderful full color a+u photography. We had feared the volumes were long out of print - it is a pleasure they have, for the moment, returned.
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This publication is an updated reissue of the book designed by Experimental Jet Set and published on the occasion of ‘Wim Crouwel: Architectures Typographiques, 1956-1976’, an exhibition that took place in the beginning of 2007 at Galerie Anatome in Paris.
Crouwel is a master of typography in building design, as well as graphics, identity, posters, and exhibitions. In one sense, it is a tribute to Crouwel. In another sense, it is a brilliant example of the work of Experimental Jet Set.
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This is a different take on the typical HOME book, and a tribute of sorts to the work that Monocle does and is best at. It is not a laying out of houses to peruse - it is a laying out of elements of what makes a house. Elements that are the difference, of what you see, and what you hope. It is a visual show of TYPES.
The handcrafted home, the mountainside, the terraced townhouse, the island escape, the art-filled place, the urban, the self-sufficient, the classic, the brutalist bolthole - 20 of them in all, presented in the iconography of what makes each an icon.
For each entry, selected from all over the world and all over the years, it is the details of the paradigm they are after, the ineffable sense of the literal type.
To end, they go to the details - facades and doors, gardens and fittings, lighting and shelves. And a final list, of their 100 favorites things that would always help, from carafe to bench to oil lamp. A good, healthy, helpful book.
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