“We live in a culture that doesn’t acknowledge the importance of appetite,” complains Mama Gena, the proprietress of Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts. Mama Gena sports a head of very blonde Shirley ...
It is a bitter, sleet-gray November afternoon in New York City, five days after the presidential election. The mood in Tribeca is gloomy, if not outright apocalyptic. Faces are drawn, collars are up.