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Winter = Chili
After a look at my finances, I put my foot down. No more runs to Zabar’s for lunch for their soup. If my brokeness weren’t enough, the recent cornbread recipe from the VegNews Recipe Club sealed the deal. It was time to step up to the burner and make my own, and far superior, hearty [...]
2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey
I think the Almighty Sound is a band from Minneapolis. Despite several webpages I am still not sure. Anyhow, they created 2001: A Spiritualized Odyssey, unique film project that pairs Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey with the J. Spaceman’s space rock. The coupling is a fantastic fit, a higher brow Wizard of Oz/Dark Side. Spiritualized compliments [...]
Food Catch Up
Between class starting up again and several special occasions, I have spent way too much time in restaurants as of lately. Most notably was dinner at Blossom with Wok Man and some visiting friends from Chicago. It has been on my “to go” list for quite some time but the double-digit appetizer prices had it [...]
Cool Cups Vegan “Jello” Cups
Hi, Welcome to my new blog label “product reviews”! Here I’ll be risking my hard-earned dollars in the name of vegan product exploration. The vegan food market is growing in leaps and bounds. A trip to the health food store reveals more and more new products geared towards us ethical eaters. I plan to take [...]
The Zlatne Uste Golden Festival
In the basement and auditorium in Good Shepard School in the high reaches of Manhattan’s northern-most neighborhood, I partook in a wonderfully unique experience: the Golden Music Festival, an annual collection of Balkan music, dance and art. Inside the monotone school in Inwood I was transported to the streets of southeastern Europe, roaming the halls [...]
Roadtrip: The 56th Inauguration of the President of the United States
January 19, 2009, 11:15 p.m. (LaGuardia, picking up the car rental)January 20, 2009, 2:00 a.m. (Maryland rest stop)January 20, 2009, 3:40 a.m. (Greenbelt, MD Metro station)January 20, 2009, 7:15 a.m. (The sun comes out finally!)January 20, 2009, 7:35 a.m. (Walking through a tunnel underneath the National Mall.) January 20, 2009, 8:00 a.m.January 20, 2009, 8:30 [...]
Goodbye W., Part III: I’m off to Inauguration
I requested off from work on January 20, 2009 the evening of November 4, 2008. Somewhere between then and a few hours ago I was resolved to celebrate inauguration activities here in New York City. I would wake up early to nab a seat for the screening at the Langston Hughes Auditorium at the Schomburg [...]
Goodbye W., Part II
For every celebration there is a perfect cupcake. The combination of flavors and enhancements present in my Hello Obama cupcakes represent a medley of symbolism. These golden vanilla cupcakes (for the Illinois’s golden boy) are lemon-almond flavored. Not only because I ran out of vanilla extract and had to compensate with lemon and almond extracts, but because [...]
Goodbye W., Part I
Revelling in the collective excitement of these historical times, the next few days are dedicated to like-minded celebrations and inaugurationated parties. Event: Yes We Can: Barack Obama’s History-Making Presidential Campaign, the photographs of Scout Tufankjian at powerHouse Books, DUMBO
My First Etsy Order/A Characteristic Over-disclosure
As my sidebar over there annouces, I have an Etsy shoppe now. Though I am mostly selling my photography, I do have some vegan treats listed (as well as photographs of vegan treats). I sold my first batch of cookies today… to my mom! Of course, I couln’t really charge her so I guess it [...]
Everything But the Basil
I haven’t cooked in awhile. It’s terrible. Weeks after the great kitchen gadget shopping spree of ’08 (Wok Man‘s Christmas gift to me), I hadn’t used anything, save for a measuring cup. But last night that all changed by way of a fabulous Vegan Yellow Curry. A container of curry paste is a terrible thing [...]
A Collection: The Humorous Encounters of My Life
Garbage bag art installation (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)Thai restuarant (somewhere in Virginia)That you Santie Claus? (Bridgeport, CT)Hi, I’m Talky Tina… and I forgive your sins. (somewhere in North Carolina)A rare endangered hot pink gorilla (Upper East Side, NYC)Very sharp “equipment” (JFK NYC)Bling. Teeth. in 22 varieties (Bushwick, Brooklyn)The men come on Monday, Wedsnesday and Friday mornings. Soon [...]
