Today’s Times published a moving piece by Yoko Ono on the memory of properly — or perhaps not properly — making tea with John Lennon, in honor of the anniversary of his death. “John took the role of the tea maker, for being English,” Ono remembers, recalling how they “cracked up” when he finally realized as per his aunt Mimi that he’d been chastising Ono for making it incorrectly for years (hot water, then tea bags) when it was he with the mixed-up method (tea bags, then hot water). Ono’s recollections in our recent interview with the artist also touched on past habits the couple shared, such as Lennon and his penchant for chocolate, as well as his good spirits and his good intentions to make the world a better place. Those, by the way, were very much in mind of our editor-in-chief Gabrielle Langholtz, when she penned her Letter from the Editor for our last issue: “Back in the ’70s when Lennon lived here and preached peace,” she wrote, “few could have imagined that fine dining could be a tool for change, but these days gastronomy and ecology intersect.”
