Thanks to Pieter Claesz for Still Life With Musical Instruments (1623). Let’s say you plan on spending a couple of hours in the kitchen–finishing your stock off into a sauce, slowly sweating a sofrito, carefully stirring risotto, parboiling potatoes, drinking a Brooklyn Ridgy-Didge (I swear I taste that Tasmanian pepperberry), boiling pasta, layering a stew–you will need, I will need some appropriate music, a selection of songs to cut, dance and ladle to as late afternoon slips into night and wonderful aromas fill the house. Here’s my menu, what’s yours?
DeVotchKa
Wilco and Billy Bragg
La Mer
Astor Piazzolla
Yellow #5
Andrew Bird
Gogol Bordello
Hawk and a Hacksaw
Cat Power
Paris Combo
Gregory Page
Empires, Cannibals, and Magic Fish Bones 
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