Soren Baek
Soren is one half of Drift. He writes about markets, long lunches, and the strange intimacy of eating somewhere new. He and Mara built this journal together — partly to document where they've been, partly to justify going back.
An Annotated Bookshelf
Fourteen shelves, two readers, no system. A tour of what we own, how it got here, and why almost none of it is organised alphabetically.
Books Survived the Trip
A book you finish on a trip and bring home anyway is a book that earned its place. Here are five of ours.
Soren's Chef Knife
I bought it from a man at a street market who sharpened knives from a cart. It was not for sale. He sold it to me anyway.
The Map We Bought in Ostmark
It covers a region neither of us had heard of. Several of the roads no longer exist. We have been planning a trip around it for two years.
A Sunday in Corvel
We weren't passing through Corvel. We had no reason to be there. That turned out to be exactly the right reason.
The Long Lunch at Sorel
We sat down at half past twelve. We left at five. This is a record of what happened in between.
The Island in October
Mara had been the previous summer and described it carefully. I went in October, when it was empty. We saw a completely different place.
Market Logic
There is a grammar to good markets. Once you learn to read it, you stop needing lists.
What We Ate in Veldara
A four-day food diary from a town where the bread is exceptional and the menus are handwritten and everything closes between two and four.