When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country’s northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
The original Grand Tour would generally begin in Belgium or the Netherlands before moving through Paris, Geneva, Spain, Italy, and perhaps Greece. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it’s an affair that’s as long as it is resonant. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
The term ‘pashmina’ is often used interchangeably with ‘cashmere,’ but in reality, pashmina is a specific type of very fine, lofty cashmere, woven from a specific type of goat – one indigenous to northern India, Nepal, and Pakistan, and harvested and woven there as well. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Anyone who has been to India – specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country’s northwest – knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli – a veritable parade of geniuses. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it’s a way of life. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
The speed limit on most of Maui’s highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty. Hanya Yanagihara Read Quote
