Where flour, cornmeal, eggs, sugar, butter, and a pepper became bread
Month: February 2022
Red Pepper Cornbread upside down
As I said, moving on does not mean abandonment — after a Blueberry-Basil period, a Red Bell Pepper Cornbread
The Life You Give: Rudolf Steiner *1861
Rudolf Steiner, born February 27 1861, in Kraljević, Austria, was a spiritualist, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge. Attracted in his youth to the works of Goethe, Steiner edited that… Continue reading The Life You Give: Rudolf Steiner *1861
Moving on — not a departure
Coffee with red pepper cornbread / Sigma DP2 Merrill
Red Pepper for Cornbread
The Virtuous Black XXVIII: Jessye Norman
Jessye Norman, born Jessye Mae Norman, on September 15 1945 in Augusta, Georgia, U.S.A., was operatic soprano, one of the finest of her day, who also enjoyed a successful concert career.After winning the Bavarian Radio Corp. International Music Competition in 1968, Norman made her operatic debut as Elisabeth in Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser in 1969 in… Continue reading The Virtuous Black XXVIII: Jessye Norman
The Life You Give: Victor Hugo *1802
Victor Hugo, born Victor-Marie Hugo, on February 26 1802, in Besançon, France, is the poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most important of the French Romantic writers. Though regarded in France as one of that country’s greatest poets, he is better known abroad for such novels as Notre-Dame de Paris (1831) and Les Misérables… Continue reading The Life You Give: Victor Hugo *1802
Onion overload
Broccoli, onion, garlic, Arborio rice It is common to use a product like onions as a spice — namely, it is generally meant to give a layer of flavor. Yet, I lean increasingly into using some spices as main ingredients, instead of as added taste profile. This is such a case, with rice being added… Continue reading Onion overload
A beautiful black between the leaves
Allium sativum Linnaeus
Onion — or on questioning subjectivity
Architecture and design on a small and quotidian scale
Pourover coffee with Chemex and Indonesian filter
The last piece is simply the inspiration for another
Blueberry Basil Cornbread, with almond butter
The Life You Give / Virtuous Black XXVII — Marian Anderson *1897
Marian Anderson, born on February 27 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., was one of the finest contraltos of her time.Anderson displayed vocal talent as a child, but her family could not afford to pay for formal training. From the age of six, she was tutored in the choir of the Union Baptist Church, where she… Continue reading The Life You Give / Virtuous Black XXVII — Marian Anderson *1897
The Virtuous Black XXVI: Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald, born Ella Jane Fitzgerald, on April 25 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A., is the jazz singer who became world famous for the wide range and rare sweetness of her voice. She became an international legend during a career that spanned some six decades. As a child, Fitzgerald wanted to be a dancer,… Continue reading The Virtuous Black XXVI: Ella Fitzgerald
White Crown
The Virtuous Black XXV: Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong, born August 4 1901, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A., was leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history. He grew up in dire poverty in New Orleans, Louisiana, when jazz was very young. As a child he worked at odd jobs and sang in a boys’ quartet. In 1913… Continue reading The Virtuous Black XXV: Louis Armstrong
Iced Leaves
Iced Twig
Tree Ice Bulbs
“Brier Patch” — installation by Hugh Hayden
At Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NY
Sila Blume 