food
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Joy from the Past
When an experience occurs through the palate, a unique physical and spiritual state will arise. It will sensitize memories into references of the present, and transport one back to the past. Subsequently, some otherwise unreachable memories may leave oblivion. After all, what is the organic and biological sense of memory storage, if there are no…
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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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Celebration Day — twenty-one
The Genesis of my peripheral attention is unknown to me. The term has been a familiar one since my childhood but at some point, perhaps through a self inflicted period of auto investigation, after two decades trusting a higher power, I look deeper and wider, breathe deeper and wider, my taste penetrates clearer and wider.…
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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 — twelve
I am passionate about the drama, music, and dynamics in the world of Opera. As a French pastry, Opera is a milder delight.
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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…
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Apples are evidently not all directly from nature
Fact is, once an apple falls from a tree, its seeds are naturally to give way to a genetically different tree variety. Only the human hand aims to guarantee “consistency”.
Sila Blume 