Continuous Cities 4 By Italo Calvino You reproach me because each of my stories takes you right into the heart of a city without telling you of the space that stretches between one city and the other, whether it is covered by seas, or fields of rye, larch forests, swamps. I will answer you with… Continue reading Consider This: Poetics
Category: Recipes
Cleanse-Approved Apple Crisp
Last Tuesday I began a 3-week cleanse. What does that mean, you might ask, to which I would respond I can’t eat any: — dairy — sugar — bread — fruit (except green Granny Smith apples) — vinegar — alcohol The glitch might appear to be the fact that I had yet to celebrate my… Continue reading Cleanse-Approved Apple Crisp
Lentil Quinoa with Kale
[print_this] Lentil Quinoa with Kale I came up with this dish a few weeks ago and found it so yummy that it was my vegetarian contribution to the Thanksgiving meal yesterday. No turkey, no tryptophan, no troubles! What I discovered in making this recipe is how marvelous the kale cooking liquid is. I actually reserved… Continue reading Lentil Quinoa with Kale
Bangkok Lychee Cocktail
[print_this] Bangkok Lychee Cocktail This drink is totally inspired by one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago, VTK. I had a similar cocktail there about a month ago and have been wanting to drink something similar in SF, but to no avail. The closest thing I could find was Poleng’s “Poleng Me” cocktail- a great… Continue reading Bangkok Lychee Cocktail
George, where were you a month ago…
I feel like I could have written this poem a month ago, albeit a sloppier and more windy version. May you enjoy his tight distillation of inner emotional and passionate ravagings. Denial by George Herbert When my devotions could not pierce Thy silent ears, Then was my heart broken, as was my verse; My breast… Continue reading George, where were you a month ago…
Word on the streets
My Tia Berta finally got a dog three years ago. Originally, we thought they would go the route of choosing a West Highland terrier as she had talked about for a while, but instead they got Portia. She is a sweet, classically rambunctious Jack Russell terrier which loves to run circles around the squirrels… Continue reading Word on the streets
Some Shakespeare to tuck you in
Ah Will, you were ever the romantic! Except for when you were the tragic prophetic voice beaming out of Stratford on Avon. From my readings tonight, I give you this fine nugget, reader, culled from Sonnet 76: “O know, sweet love, I always write of you, And you and love are still my argument. So… Continue reading Some Shakespeare to tuck you in