She’s coming over for dinner. I’m braising lamb.

“Braising? In Summer?”
“Yes.”

The Lamb Lady at the farmers market said, “braise it.” She also said the lamb was “slaughtered yesterday.”

Speaking of slaughtering lambs, it was strange stumbling upon a bunch of fake Goyard handbags hanging in the Canal street shops. As the gays and socialites will tell you, Goyard is a luxury French handbag company. And I used to work for them. Actually, I didn’t really work for them, so much as I was contracted out by Barney’s to monogram their bags.

—Staggeringly expensive bags made by a company that prided themselves on their exclusivity. I remember the salespeople at Barneys saying to customers, “unlike Louis Vuitton you will never see a Goyard knockoff sold on Canal Street.”

Yes you will. Here you go, public: