Ellen Rothenberg

To be enjoyed with :

black and mint tea, “in a proper teapot with matching cups”:

Dolores Hayden
The Grand Domestic Revolution
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982

“A large circular plate with M&M’s and Necco Wafers and/or a platter of 25 baked sweet potatoes or yams”:

Hoptman, Laura et al.
Yayoi Kusama
London: Phaidon, 2001
See more on Kusama’s website.

“a salad of greens with nasturtium blossoms in yellow and orange”:

Jamaica Kincaid,
My Garden Book
NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
More information here and here.

“glasses of good French red wine and small ceramic cups of coffee”:

Louise Bourgeois and Larry Rinder,
Louise Bourgeois: Drawings and Observations
NY: Bulfinch Press, 1996
Available here. For more information see here.