Essay
The Sandwich Has Structural Responsibilities
A few rules about bread, moisture, heat, and restraint. Sample content, not a final sermon.
The personal site of Tristan Eason
I write about whatever I find worth noticing.
Food, places, ideas, opinions, and the other things that make a life interesting. No niche, no schedule, no strategy. Just me, thinking out loud.
I'm an island boy from Florida with a computer habit, an appetite, and a tendency to think about things longer than strictly necessary. I build for a living, travel when I can, cook most days, eat seriously, and end up here writing about whatever stays on my mind.
A day can start in basketball shorts with a bag of snacks and end in a suit at the opera with a Scotch and a cigar. Both are true. This place is coherent because I am the common thread, not because everything belongs to one topic. Pour something, and have a look around.
A man is allowed to contain more than one atmosphere.
Lately
- Cooking
- a ragù that wants the whole afternoon
- Reading
- back through the Tao Te Ching, slowly
- Drinking
- Aperol at four, Scotch at midnight
- Elsewhere
- Torino, in my head if not in person
Recent writing
All of it →- Note
Aperol at Four, Scotch at Midnight
The same day can hold a bright spritz in the afternoon and a dark dram at the end. Both are honest.
- Dispatch Torino, Italy
Notes from Torino
A dispatch from a city that keeps its best parts under the arcades and behind unmarked doors.
- Rant
The Problem with Restaurant Lighting
A controlled rant about dining rooms lit like operating theaters and the food that suffers under them.
- Review Torino, Italy
An Old Hotel Bar in Torino
A sample review of a bar that understands the difference between service and hospitality.
Music for the Occasion
Three rooms, three moods. Put one on and stay a while.
The day job
I own and operate Vida Tigris, where I build websites, systems, and other useful things. It is one room here, not the whole house.
Say hello
If something here lands, or you just want to argue about sandwiches, write to me at hello@tristaneason.com.