Tristan Eason https://tristaneason.com The personal site of Tristan Eason. Writing about food, places, ideas, technology, and other things worth noticing. en A Rant About Sandwiches https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-rant-about-sandwiches https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-rant-about-sandwiches Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT My Holy Mission to deliver the sermon on a genuinely proper sandwich. Food & DrinkIdeasHot Takes Aperol at Four, Scotch at Midnight https://tristaneason.com/journal/aperol-at-four-scotch-at-midnight https://tristaneason.com/journal/aperol-at-four-scotch-at-midnight Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The same day can hold a bright spritz in the afternoon and a dark dram at the end. Both are honest. Food & DrinkCulture Notes from Torino https://tristaneason.com/journal/notes-from-torino https://tristaneason.com/journal/notes-from-torino Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A dispatch from a city that keeps its best parts under the arcades and behind unmarked doors. PlacesLe Cose Italiane The Problem with Restaurant Lighting https://tristaneason.com/journal/the-problem-with-restaurant-lighting https://tristaneason.com/journal/the-problem-with-restaurant-lighting Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A controlled rant about dining rooms lit like operating theaters and the food that suffers under them. Food & DrinkIdeas An Old Hotel Bar in Torino https://tristaneason.com/journal/an-old-hotel-bar-in-torino https://tristaneason.com/journal/an-old-hotel-bar-in-torino Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A sample review of a bar that understands the difference between service and hospitality. PlacesLe Cose ItalianeStyle A Ragù That Wants the Afternoon https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-ragu-that-wants-the-afternoon https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-ragu-that-wants-the-afternoon Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Written the way a person actually cooks, not the way a food blog pretends to. Sample recipe. Food & DrinkLe Cose Italiane A Small Haiku About Garlic https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-small-haiku-about-garlic https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-small-haiku-about-garlic Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Seventeen syllables for the ingredient that starts almost everything. Food & Drink Before Coffee https://tristaneason.com/journal/before-coffee https://tristaneason.com/journal/before-coffee Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A fragment. A few lines that did not need to be an article. Ideas On Solitude Without Misanthropy https://tristaneason.com/journal/on-solitude-without-misanthropy https://tristaneason.com/journal/on-solitude-without-misanthropy Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wanting to be alone and liking people are not opposites. An essay leaning on a little Taoism. IdeasCulture What Surfing Leaves Behind https://tristaneason.com/journal/what-surfing-leaves-behind https://tristaneason.com/journal/what-surfing-leaves-behind Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT You can stop surfing and still keep the thing it taught you about waiting. SportIdeas Island Boy, Opera Suit https://tristaneason.com/journal/island-boy-opera-suit https://tristaneason.com/journal/island-boy-opera-suit Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT On dressing for two lives at once, and why the combinations never needed explaining. StyleIdeas Le Cose Italiane Certamente https://tristaneason.com/journal/le-cose-italiane-certamente https://tristaneason.com/journal/le-cose-italiane-certamente Thu, 20 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT An unranked, unreasonable list of Italian things worth defending. Sample content. Le Cose ItalianeCultureFood & Drink A Small Script for a Quiet Morning https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-small-script-for-a-quiet-morning https://tristaneason.com/journal/a-small-script-for-a-quiet-morning Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT A short technical note, mostly an excuse to show what a code block looks like here. TechnologyIdeas