An essay series on the good life
Table and World
Expanded Gastrosophy: where hospitality, spirit, and the world meet
Markus Mosimann has run crêperies in the Zurich area since 2011 and writes about the table as the place where community, pleasure and an honest life come together. From there, he asks what a daily life might look like that takes the whole person into account.
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Second-Hand
On judgement that others have chewed for us
In a documentary about Tonga, the kingdom in the South Pacific, a doctor says to the camera: «When people here eat the healthy food from our islands, sweet potato or taro, they count as poor. When they eat bread and imported meat from a tin, they count as rich.»
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Where Is the Toilet
How openness turns into a threshold
Two identical doors, twenty-eight gender symbols on each, and a woman who asked the one question you are no longer supposed to ask. On a restaurant group that explains its values better than its rooms.
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Keep the Change
Three words the terminal does not know
Tipping was never an obligation in Switzerland, at any rate not since the seventies, when service went into the prices. What remained was rounding up.
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