Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Lebanon's history via pop culture 48

Catalogs of white goods. Promises of goddesses in the kitchen and mothers doing all those goodies – waffles and strawberry cakes, and birthday treats and melmac dishes to eat them by the pool. Mad Men and Betty Drapers smoking cigarettes as they cooked oblivious of the harm. But love, something like it, and notions of devotion, abnegation and tenderness were there for sure.