If you are into cooking, you have to check out Kevin West's new masterpiece, Saving the Season, which comes out Tomorrow. He is truly a phenomenal chef and I was touched to find the recipe for Jameson Jelly that we cooked together included (it was insanely good).
West Sweet Preserves
My friend Kevin West, who recently made some fantastic Jameson flavored Apple Jelly at my house upstate, has finally started selling his preserves. You can buy them here.
Reza Aslan
Reza explained the universe to my friend Kevin and I at a dinner party and was pretty much spot on.
Kevin West on Brad Pitt
Kevin West's profile of Brad Pitt graces the cover of the latest W Magazine.
BRAD PITT
WITH A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NEW FILM—AND A PERSONAL LIFE THAT’S ALMOST SINGLE-HANDEDLY KEEPING THE TABLOIDS IN BUSINESS—BRAD PITT IS MASTERING THE ART OF SUPERSTARDOM.
By Kevin West
Photographs by Chuck Close February 2009
To be Brad Pitt is to know the bowels of hotels: the hidden mazes of back entrances, subterranean passages and service elevators daily trudged by housekeepers and room service waiters—and sometimes traveled by a VIP guest who needs secret conveyance to his suite. Thirty minutes before Pitt is scheduled to arrive at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood on a Friday afternoon in December, his private security detail is scouting a route through the basement and issuing brisk instructions to hotel staff. In an earlier era, the mood of tense anticipation would have suggested the arrival of a political candidate, or perhaps a kingpin in illicit commodities, but today’s advance preparations are just for a 45-year-old actor, albeit one whose fame calls for an impervious security bubble to thwart overeager fans and aggressive photographers. Intensifying the situation is the fact that, a few days earlier, Pitt said on television that he “hates” the paparazzi—an arguably gratuitous comment, since, who didn’t already know that? “Now,” he announces when he blows through the door of the 12th-floor suite, motorcycle helmet in hand and aviator glasses still on his face, “they’re out for me.”
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Ronchamp
Kevin West, a friend, writer, and editor of W Magazine, drove me from Paris to Ronhamp because it was something that he thought we had to do. I wasn’t that interested for some reason or another, I think I wanted to go to Switzerland. I was wrong. These photos from my Land Camera don’t do it any bit of justice.