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The first time I entered Yonah Schimmel’s Knish Bakery on Houston Street, I was greeted, across from the signs selling cherry-flavored cream cheese knishes and egg creams, by the poster for Joan Micklin Silver’s
Hester Street (1975). I’d just moved from Los Angeles to New York City, unsure of where to go or what to do for paid work, and was spending a lot of hours milling about the Lower East Side, browsing bookshops. On the walls of Yonah Schimmel’s I would pore over the strips of yellowed newspaper clippings, which told stories of the local Yiddish theater players who’d come there in the ’20s to unwind over a knish after a night of performances, and who would stay talking into the next morning. When I finally sat down with a black-and-white egg cream, I made sure to face that
Luxury, locks and learnings - I went to a hair salon for four weeks and this is what I discovered
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It seemed the very definition of luxury. Then life happened. By Sarah Daniell. Looking back, it seems the ultimate in indulgent folly. I had locked on to an idea, one that would soon be diminished by a pandemic and discussions about far more meaningful things. Life and death. Definitely not - WTF - hair.
But things were different then. We were blithe-spirited; making plans for a different future; forecasting whimsical magazine themes like The Luxury Issue . What s your idea of luxury, we in the Canvas team asked each other: My bed is made each day with freshly laundered 800-count Egyptian cotton sheets; a retreat in Southeast Asia; having your hair washed and blow-dried once a week for four weeks. Defining luxury now elicits different responses: being alive; good health; a big cold bottle of Waikato and a plate of raw oyst