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This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at food culture, with a special attention to the American West. The first half of the writing lists of restaurants and casinos in Dallas and Las Vegas, respectively; the names of these institutions are latent with…

This note from Leroy Neiman provides a selection of food related scenes, related for the most part to leisure culture. That said, the document makes the connection between these two topics tacitly. Notably, the note singles out two New York city…

This note from LeRoy Neiman provides winding, fragmentary commentary on food and food culture. One side of the document speaks more directly to social dynamics in the restaurant industry (referring to the plight of the “wage class” as well as the…

This note from LeRoy Neiman concerns, for the most part, restaurant waitstaff. In the document, the artist describes these workers as laborers that not only serve food but more importantly mediate (or blur) divisions between classes, and by extension…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at a selection of artists that took an aesthetic interest in food, or dining scenes. Among the artists listed are the french Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Paul Cézanne, Degas, and Monet, as well as one of Neiman’s personal…

This note from LeRoy Neiman (scrawled on the back of a notice for the elections of the Friar Club’s Board of Governors) gives a rundown of chefs' normative dress, in the form of a kind of quasi-checklist. This garb list includes, but is not limited…

This note on food from LeRoy Neiman explores the performative nature of fine dining. Furthermore, the through line of this poetic, fragmented writing seems to be the haute cuisine’s focus on timing. Neiman has ornamented the document with an…

This note (written on top the title page of Cam Sigler’s Guide to Fly Fishing, from 1997) provides a playful musing on fish, and more specifically fly fishing. The document is chock-full of pseudo-cerebral sayings such as, “kiss a fish”, “think like…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at staff in the restaurant industry. The tacit list is peppered with a variety of aesthetic comments (e.g. hand sewn buttons - Check trousers - kerchief / Toque name on jacket) and poetic turns of phrase (i.e. “You…

This note from LeRoy Neiman looks at the position of food in leisure culture. The document itself is comprised of a variety of fragmented images from elite settings (e.g. “your food is being plated as hurried to the table”, “Well healed older men of…