Photography by Chia Chong
Recognizing you are experiencing a special moment in your life is the second gift.
We all know the pleasures of eating strawberries and some extol their aphrodisiacal properties, but none so well as Madame Tallien. Born to the aristocracy, given six names, and raised by nuns, this strawberry lover survived a march to the guillotine, bearing the fruit (ten) of multiple lovers and husbands (including the notoriously seedy and filthy Napoleon Bonaparte), several stints in prison and all of the great political and social shifts of the late 1700s. A style maven and risk-taker throughout her life, she insisted on bathing solely in the cure-all juice of strawberries.
Katherine looking on as Chia is shooting Andrea.
“That’s charcuterie? I’ve been avoiding that on menus for years!” –Jay Pritchett