winter has definitely started, so i have to change my summer clothes for the winter ones.
any way, i will start reading food & love by jack goody. apparently the chapter or chinese food is very famous for its insights. think i will go to the beach to do so, come rain, come shine.
ate a nice dinner with spicy tomato rice, boiled shrinps and a tossed salad with truffle oil and balsamic vinegar.
the pills i am taking against the flu, upset my intestines. i think i will skip bread for a while.
i was. it was my first time and i loved it. i was part of
my beau and i made a wonderful film about our camp. i still see it every now and then and wonder where the others are and what they are doing.
the funny thing is, i am not sure if i would like to go again, for i have the idea that it can not possibly be as good or even better than it was in 2001. bm might be like xtc: the first time is the best.
so what do i do now? how was bm 2007?
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If you had a time machine, which year would you travel to and why?
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i would either travel to 2061 - i would be 100 years old - to see in what state the world will be, or to 1920, to be in paris when tout le monde was there.
Show us your passion.
i have disappeared from the internet. when i googled my alter
ego's name, it was no longer anywhere except for 1 entry with a photo from a jubilee. that is it. 12 year net presence and nada. funnily enough my alter ego's avatar, nz, has a reference more each time i check it out. that shows that ideas are stronger than genes. that means that i can still give birth to an idea to last. i will try to focus on that from now on.
blink or are recent examples of such an idea. i liked both books, because malcolm writes very well and as they are relatively simple concepts, it is a pleasure to read and think about them.
i had a blink moment when i realized i should do something in anthropology. let's hope that moment was the real thing and that i am on my way.
i virtually never prepare meat at home. but as i described my dilemma of 'to meat (=to eat meat) or not to meat' in my first post, i realize that I am a social meat eater, like other people are social smokers, drinkers or druggers.
some random oddities about my meat eating practice:
- i don't eat pork because at home as a child, we never ate it <--> occasionally i crave some mortadella, pate, salami or smoked sausage and give in. (not 10 times a year) (we did eat pink veal, a total no-no nowadays.)
- i used to love chicken piri-piri, grilled chicken doused in hot pepper-garlic olive oil - as i rarely come across a tasty, free-range specimen, i crave but hardly ever give in, as i know i will not like the taste, less then 5 times a year.
- i love lamb. i give in 5 - 7 times a year.
- i love duck and pigeon and give in 3 times a year max.
- i used to love mollusks and octopus and ate it regularly, as they are national favorites of the portuguese friends i hang out with a lot - then i saw this documentary on tv and to my utter amazement, octopi demonstrated such creative survival strategies, that i deemed them too intelligent to eat for a snack. not eaten since 2002, not even a morsel.
- i love shrimps,mussels, clams, and eat those twice a month on average. now thinking about the devastating effect of shrimp-farming in developing countries, i shouldn't be eating them.
- since seeing my first live lobster at 189 feet while deep sea diving around bonaire, i refrained from eating them. this must have been in 1987. i have maybe eaten 7 times a lobster bisque since, the soup that used to be my favorite.
- and then beef. i love a rare steak, but with mad cow disease and abominal slaughter practice, i hardly ever eat it any longer.
- fish i eat regularly, but not of the farmed inclination.
i am afraid i will keep you posted in my coming to terms with food. as you will find out, food takes center stage in my life.
home is a fascinating historical account of the development of the idea of the interior, of a house as a private space (a home) as opposed to being a public space, as it apparently used to be until the 16th century. the description of 17th century dutch interiors is priceless.
no concept of interior without thinking about the kitchen. it is clear that the kitchen, especially since le corbusier, has been alotted a minor place in the home, as cooking is seen as a necessary nuisance instead of a place for social interaction. the body is no longer a sacred terrain, so we leave food preparation to others - principally the food industry - or we order. (when a house was a more public space, the kitchen was the center of life. beds were shared in a big way, and intimacy and privacy were unknown.)
i even heard a horror story about a social housing project in the uk where the kitchen was reduced to a hole in the wall for the microwave oven over,, a doll house sized kitchen sink and counter. i have not been able to check if this is an urban legend or factually true.
the reason i started this blog is because i got sucked in through the blog by beau smith. his food photos did it for me. i was smitten by the beet appetizer.
i have no favorite food, that is, a dish i would kill for, but you can wake me up for spaghetti aglio, olio, peperoncini & broccoli, humus, french fries in the peel with mayonnaise, grilled veggies, fresh fruit & vegetable juices, phad thai, tom yam and gazpacho. i like cuisines, principally mediterrenean (italian, lebanese & turkish) & asian (japanese,indian, thai & indonesian). and most of all a fusion of them in no particular order.
i am thinking about becoming a vegan again. in fact, though i still like to eat shrimp and fish occasionally, the idea of a steak turns me off. so if i ever write down a food creation, no animal parts will be involved, not even cheese, if i can avoid it.
i got very impressed by reading the china study. i even did 6 weeks of eat to live and now don't know how i was able to do it, though indeed, i felt reborn. then i let it slip and here i am, torturing muself day and night about what to do. being a vegan is hell for my social life, trust me.
basically, what to eat has been a psychological struggle for me most of my life. i am always balancing between ethics and hedonism, meaning to not eat meat because of the bio-industry, but loving and wanting to eat a bleu, charcoal broiled argentinian lombo de vaca.
i guess i am very human when it comes to choice. tickled? read me tomorrow.
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