Gastronomy
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The Himmas Kassa Process
lemons in salt chickpeas cinnamon, coriander, black pepper, cumin, caraway garlic and ginger added some lemon juice parsley, mint, olive oil and the chickpeas added, and pounded to a paste…
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Celebration Day — twenty-two
On this day of celebration I began working last year. After the planning began, the first physical step was realized on December 31st, as I put four lemons in a salt bad. Here is to the hummus from ancient times.
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Rose Petals
A rose is a rosePoetry LoveLuxuryPerfume MedicineMemoriesCelebration Symbol for rebirthWarTendernessBorn from the tears of Aphrodite, and the blood of AdonisThirty-five million years old and rose petals will be part of this himmas kassa, the hummus I am currently preparing References: 1800flowers / University of Illinois web extension
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Hummus — himmas kassa, part #2
There is a special physical and spiritual state which arises when an experience occurs through the palate, while the mind finds a romantic bind to the past. Call it joy. Looking to experiment, and build on that state, today I continue to the next step in the process of making a hummus, based on an…
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Celebration Day — sixteen
For decades I have been on a journey of cleansing myself from empty, superficial, misleading, and cultural terms and words which do not express in essential detail what my thoughts and mindset are. The exclamation “a day like any other”, for example, is a total ignorance of what life is — per day, per second,…
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Cha An Teahouse — Japan in New York City
Today I walked to one of the most wonderful cities in the world. After taking the #6 train to ‘Little Tokyo’, I walked east out of the Astor Place station, up to 9th Street, and within minutes found myself in front of Cha An. This teahouse is in an area where Japanese restaurants, shops, tea…
Sila Blume 