Prior to Game of Thrones’ debut, I remember selling it to a friend with a low threshold for swords and sorcery as “like The Sopranos but in Middle Earth.” This was something I’d read on a website, and while the Middle Earth part might not be so great a comparison yes, there are swords and dragons, but there’s
Fashion is cyclical. Trends have a life, they die, and then at some point experience a rebirth. Take acid-wash jeans, for instance. In the 1980s, everyone from Madonna to tennis star Andre Agassi wore them. Then they were ostracized as uncool. But a trip to any department store today will find an ample supply of acid-wash mom jeans, there to be scooped up by on trend social-media fashionistas.
Food, like fashion, also has its moments. Dishes like beef Wellington or a caesar salad prepared tableside are considered trite until a chef like Thomas Keller puts a stunning rendition on his menu at the Surf Club Restaurant and gives the doddering old staples a new lease on life.