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Jeff Koehler

Jeff Koehler

@koehlercooks
SCMP Contributor
Jeff Koehler is the award-winning author of ten books about art and food. His most recent work is Matisse in Morocco. It was The Art Newspaper’s June Book Club pick and in the Wall Street Journal’s “Best Reviews of August”. He divides his time between Barcelona and Menorca.
Jeff Koehler is the award-winning author of ten books about art and food. His most recent work is Matisse in Morocco. It was The Art Newspaper’s June Book Club pick and in the Wall Street Journal’s “Best Reviews of August”. He divides his time between Barcelona and Menorca.
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Were Henri Matisse’s goldfish paintings inspired by Morocco – or China?

French artist Henri Matisse’s famous goldfish paintings were thought to have been inspired by his time in Morocco, but could Chinese art or pottery have been the real inspiration?

Mariage Freres sells the finest tea from three dozen countries, including Chinese, Japanese, Indian and English teas, but might have vanished in the 1980s were it not for two young men.

Opium, by Yves Saint Laurent, was launched in 1977, transforming the worlds of fashion and perfume, scandalising society, and making hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. It could never have happened today.

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Rodrigo De la Calle’s first attempt at making vegetables the star found few takers in a meat-loving world. But, having learned from his experience in China, the Spanish chef has since become a force to be reckoned with.

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