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Buona notte

Being out of lime, I’ve come up with a most curious concoction, and if I was a Celebity Chef I would surely include it in my book and it would surely intrigue you as a new “technique:: A (generous ) splash of vodka A squeeze of HONEY a dash – a dash, I say – [...]

Telling it like it is

MFK Fisher on single men who cook: ‘Their approach to gastronomy is basically sexual, since few of them under seventy-nine will bother to produce a good meal unless it is for a pretty woman. Few of them at any age will consciously ponder on the aphrodisiac qualities of the dishes they serve forth, but subconsciously [...]

Lessons in Nuking

Language continues to intrigue me; now, how we rely on verbs and tenses. Can we think in the future before we learn to speak it? Does tomorrow only exist once we learn the word? When I had to learn the subjunctive in Italian, it was not only the music of a foreign language that helped [...]

Conditional Dreams

Ah, for the sweet delight of learning to think in another tense… (forgiving, of course, the bad punctuation of a 10-year old).

Vi kommer altid att leva

Or something like that. It is Swedish, and I am not, though some may call me – have called me – a Scandiwegian (though this this nicely coined word says nothing of Denmark, where I am actually from, somehow, somewhere). In Sweden they will say, if they are the funky jazzist Bo Kaspers, something like [...]

Jesus Rubber

Lingua non-franca

In the airport: “Ma’am, you have been selected for a special screening this morning. Follow me please, right this way”. So I got to hop the queue to the front, only to be taken to a “special” area at the back (I had been selected, after all) where every corner of my hand luggage (carry-on, [...]

The Hearts of the Country

The Albuquerque one Desserts in a box The Jell-O aisle The Boot Co., Santa Fe Adobe money, Santa Fe Nightcap.

A Starbucks a day

makes you broke.

Nota Bene

A lot of things is automatic in America. It’s systematic. It’s hydromatic. Like trash cans in Atlanta airport. You throw in your stuff and a few minutes later gsssssssssshhhhhhh and your trash is gone. Same thing with the toilets. You hardly get a chance to button your pants before everything is flushed away, waiting for [...]

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