ROME — Last month, Gambero Rosso, the prestigious reviewer of restaurants and wine, sought out Rome's best carbonara, a dish of pasta, eggs, pecorino cheese and guanciale (cured pig cheek; for the aficionados, pancetta is not done) that defines tradition here.
Interestingly, the varied and individual nature of the responses demonstrates we don't really have defined traditions associated with the death of a pet in our society.
But our defining satirical tradition has always been rather different: tangential, playful, surreal, creating amplified hyper-realities that excel politics rather than reflect it.
***** On a Sunday in late May, that capital – that energy – meanders its way through Central City in a traditional brass-band Second Line parade, one of New Orleans' defining cultural traditions.
To minimize its part in the history of abolition is to miss the central role of African-Americans, free and enslaved, in defining their traditions of protest.
His aims were not subtle: they were to define the tradition as Western and Christian, and to convert students to its norms.
In France, Tocqueville's name was too closely identified with a narrowly defined Liberal tradition, which rapidly lost influence during the Third Republic.
So we can think of two correlative challenges for any approach which makes some appeal to phenomenology: perhaps such an account fails to reckon with the doctrinal content of religious "belief," and perhaps it overlooks the role of religious practice in defining religious traditions.
As he's the son of a builder (turned art collector!) who taught his son well, I ask first how he defines his tradition.
So as we get into the Super Bowl groove, we wanted to take a trip down memory lane and tip our hat to the classic ads that really define the tradition of superior commercial-watching.
