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Kitchen Spectroscopy: evidence of the formation of the universe - foie gras fat droplets in water: self assembled
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I was slipping into a shade of melancholic blue so I read The Writers Cut @EricIdle - now I'm feeling a much more humorous color
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The sea intrigues you to count: this wave now that wave then another & another suggesting W = 1 + n. Like life: choose your n thoughtfully.
Tonight I acquired a philosophical tidbit: in life to think is requisite (as in: to be thoughtful); to overthink formulates only the tedious
Finalizing tonight's dish for the Kapalua dinner: Maui lamb - part TX BBQ / part Hawaiian Kalua. All in 400 individual Ti leaves packets!
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Celeb Chef Robert Del Grande of @RDGBarAnnie tonight at #HFWF15 @HyattMaui @chefrdg ow.ly/RR4FV ow.ly/i/cQwcU
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Imagine: whole eggplant roasted directly on glowing wood fire embers; smoky charred outside/creamy custard-like centered: sure! #vegout2015
The only thing that stands between vegetables & a great meal is a sense of imagination. How's yours? #vegout2015
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Home to SF to cook Xmas Dinner. A recipe my Grandma use to make: Polenta w/ Wild Game Ragu. No time to hunt. Alas no buckshot in the sauce.
Read this: Give people a platform to complain & they will. So, if you gave people a platform to be kind, would they? Answer: that's no fun
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What? 3 fish taco plates (all cut from the same fish) go to the same table & 1 person says mine is fishy. Something's fishy but not the fish
She said look at me so I said look at me suddenly everyone was saying look at me look at me! How many me's do we need for all this looking
Some said my simple & good vs complicated & controversial was a Platonic rewrite. More accurately: a rip off! Would that timeless Greek mind
Made a meal for Ch Haut Brion. Aimed at simple & good hoping simple wouldn't turn complicated & good controversial. The 1934: outstanding!
Perplexed: why do people that don't like fish order fish then say they don't like fish? The committed fish was pissed & is all but laughing
Sitting at the piano playing a single note listening for all its aspects. No noise. The noise must reside somewhere in the other 9 fingers.
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Was thinking: if fruit should be fruity, salt salty, meat meaty, et al, then shouldn't fish be fishy? Seems like fish should tasty like fish
Read a Richard Howard poem on eating oysters. Reminded me of an oyster I opened & handed to a nice lady. She said is it still alive? Kind of
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Just bought cabbages at the store. When checking out a young cashier gave me her mom's recipe for stuffed cabbages. Said they were delicious
Just emerged from my physics study: calculating the entropy changes when generating complex flavors all the while remembering Herr Boltzman