Feeding off the Prana....Burning like a good bonfire.
A perceptive individual has said:
"COOKING IS LIKE LOVE. IT SHOULD BE ENTERED INTO WITH ABANDON, OR NOT AT ALL."
I dropped my aspirations of being a public-interest attorney and am now going to follow my passion to change the world through food ...watch out!
~~~Deepest gratitude to my fellow Bikram Yogis for loving the Yoga Meals I'm making for them daily~~~
Daredevilry and things that make me go hmmm??
stuff'd. Slow Food. Surfing Beaches and Mountains. Bikram Yoga. Win-Win Situations. Mixing metaphors. Roundhouse kicks. Triple americano in small cup. Monsieur Yves St. Laurent.
shadow and light. words and pictures. ink. shades of gray. PANTA RHEI.
Andre Kertesz. Scando-Nordico-Baltico-things. Art/Design/Architecture. ESP. Ice Cream Trucks. the apres-surf and the apres-ski.... Gettin' my bronze on...
From true emptiness, wondrous being.
FOOD it should nourish your soul as well as body. Food that reminds you of home, or that holds a wonderful memory....It's hard to top Pastry/Baked Goods in France, Fish in the Nordic Countries, and any Italian dish in Italy.
Acme Bread. Hog Island Oyster Co. Lobsterandbutter. Brent's Black Pastrami Reuben. Charcuterie/Salumi...No, I did not use the word "Sausages" because you have dirty, dirty minds.
FAT = FLAVA!
... OMFG DIFARA PIZZA, Brooklyn...the BEST west of the Prime Meridian!!! It's like I died and gone to DA MICHELE, Napoli:
...never met a cicchetti bar I didn't like..
AFTER SILENCE, THAT WHICH COMES NEAREST TO EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE IS MUSIC...
4Tet. Air. Architecture in Helsinki. JS Bach. The Beatles. Beck. Brij Bhushan Kabra. Casiotones. chris and thomas . Classical Indian. Coltrane-Monk-Mingus-Davis-Byrd-Blakey. The Damned. DJ Shadow. Nick Drake. Everly Brothers. Jose Gonzalez. The Hammond B3. Handsome Boy Modeling School. The Jam. Seu Jorge.
Kings of Convenience. Koop. Kruder and Dorfmeister. Lamb. Massive Attack. Alexi Murdoch. PBandJ. Pixies. Prefuse 73. Dante Reyes. Paulo Reyes. RJD2. Schubert. Nina Simone. Elliot Smith. The Specials. Split Enz. Tycho. U.N.K.L.E. Viva Voce. Wilco. Bill Withers. X.YoLa.Zero7...
I've watched My Neighbor Totoro 36 times (and counting) thanks to my radical niece.
:::Kurosawa. Miyazake. Kubrik. M Gondry. T Gilliam. C Guest:::
puts me to sleep...and that's NOT while I'm watching C-SPAN Book TV.
THE MUPPET SHOW
...okay fine... FUEL TV and Bourdain:No Reservations and Spongebob Squarepants (guilty as charged). Damn you cable
The Tao Te Ching when the mind is spinning. (Stephen Mitchell's translation.) I read and re-read Shunryu Suzuki's Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. ON FOOD AND COOKING, Harold McGee. Guns Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond(!!). Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Mrs. Kennedy Goes Abroad...
(1)"That false prudence which dotes on health and wealth is the butt and merriment of heroism....That which takes my fancy most, in the heroic class, is the good-humor and hilarity which they exhibit." Emerson
Heroism, not heroics...stand in compassion, honesty and humor then, choose those actions that test your limits, the ones that scare you, the ones that might hurt.
(2)Large sandwiches made of a long crusty roll filled with various meatz and cheezez ...MMMMMMM.