Postcard from Texas

{hello from Marfa, TX!} a really unique town with a modern art legacy and a vibrant young community.

It’s been fascinating to visit and engage with the blurring yet very much existent lines between the “old guard” and the newcomers – the artists, filmmakers, and food entrepreneurs – coming to town.

I’ve always wanted to visit the Chinati Foundation and see the significant works of some of my favorites like Donald Judd and Dan Flavin that are housed there. Housed is, perhaps, not quite the right word, as they are purposefully placed among the natural habitat and the once abandoned army barracks in Marfa.

As the hipsters move in, so does the excellent, strong (and almost NY-priced) coffee at Do Your Thing Coffee and the veggie garden salads and homemade desserts of Cochineal, which I could have every day (and that may very well be the case as it can be the only restaurant open on, say, a Monday). I swooned oven the ginger-lemon pot de creme and the date pudding and the blueberry pie (and you know I love pie).