Tossing tomatoes in a world of weird fests
A no-frills account. Meditations on happiness. And a modernist classic
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The Big Story:
This week has other, more solemn international events, not least the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit attended by the leaders of China, Russia and India, but we’re looking at extraordinary cultural pursuits and what they might say about happiness and the quest for a good life.
It’s a question pondered by so many, not least acclaimed American-Iranian chef Samin Nosrat, whose new cookbook, ‘Good Things’ is out next month. Nosrat recently said she thinks a good life is “one where time – and its fast companion, attention – are the most precious gifts I can give or receive”.1
We agree.
One of this week’s books asks if “there is more to a good life than happiness”.
We have three books.
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