Hi folks, I wrote a new note about a really good meal I had recently.

This piece is a writing exercise in Noticing (I'm practicing writing both precisely and evocatively), but along the way it asks whether there's such a thing as a notation for communicating something as subjective as a food experience.

Read: Chewscape in a food experience ↗

In completely unrelated news, Darren McLean is a UK-based building conservator (he knows a lot about how old buildings were made and maintained) and he's doing a free online talk on historic floors.

Floors are an easily overlooked architecture element, but there is more to them than meets the eye. The talk will cover the fascinating story of flooring techniques and materials through history, going into detail on how they were made, why they deteriorate, and how to repair them.

Darren is deeply knowledgeable, but also knows how to make architecture topics come alive for general audiences. If you have even a passing interest in architecture, this is a truly rare opportunity, that you can enjoy for free and online, from the comfort of your home. Here is the event RSVP page optimized for folks in the UK timezone, and the RSVP page optimized for folks in the US timezone.

Love,
Emmanuel
Accra, Ghana