Bread, Pasta, Salt…Stephen Yafa/Renato Sardo/Angelo Garro
“A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans…
Family
saying goodbye to 2015 / saying hello to 2016…
“for last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.” ~ t.s. eliot, four quartets “just ’cause something’ ain’t been done don’t mean it can’t be did.” ~ shel silverstein…
An Italian TRIPTYCH / from venezia and torino to genova
“Memory’s images, once they are fixed in words, are erased,” Polo said. “Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it, or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already…
Between Lightness and Weight / A Winter Gathering at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” ~ Virginia Woolf “We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking for something to eat and drink.” ~…
The Art of Gathering / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Thursday, December 17th, 5-8pm
Above ~ Salon Dinner #34, photo by Guthrie Dolin. ~~~~~ “A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between their work and their play; their labor and their leisure; their mind and their…
August ~ on becoming 10….
“i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i…
Thoughts on Paris and NYC, from Palazzo Scaglia Di Verrua in Torino, Italy…
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. ~ Hans Christian Anderson “Images last for ever, our minds…
Lapham’s Quarterly ~ from text to life… at Starline Social Club, West Oakland
“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.” ~ Miuccia Prada ~~~~~ Clothes have been my world, formally for the past…
A trio of Recent Writings for EatDrinkFilms ~ on Ritual, Scent, and a Sense of Place
“Happiness is the longing for repetition.” ~ Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 1984 I love the balance of repetition and novelty. Below are a trio of writings that hint at this balance ~ the…
The Salon Dinners ~ #1 through #60
“one cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well…” ~ virginia woolf ~~~~~~~ Above ~ “RED” #1, Feb 18th 2012 ~ Deb Durant, Heike Liss, Beth Ann McFadden, myself, Christopher Willits,…
Cal Peternell’s 12 Recipes ~ a meditation on mentors
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” ~ Benjamin Franklin I came to cooking by getting involved. I would be in a specific place, and someone would…
an homage to oscar de la renta ~ october 20th, 2014
“there is always an emotional element to anything you make.” ~ oscar de la renta ~~~~~ the things we love are always emotional. whether people, places, or yes, the things we make by hand or…