I was sent a video about debunking class guilt which I don’t recommend watching and I’m not going to link to, but that I found so naive, self-serving and ultimately disgusting that I wanted to make my response public. A few notes: The 10 minute video is comprised of excerpts from a radio (podcast?) interview […]
“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?” ― Julia Child I’ve learned a lot from Julia Child over the years. As a young boy watching her on public television, I learned that the kitchen was a place I could work hard and find immense pleasure. As a young man, […]
According to Wikipedia: Beefsteak banquets originated among the working class of New York City in the mid-1800s as celebratory meals or “testimonials”. The meal would generally be set up by an organization wishing to laud or raise money for politicians, newly promoted friends, or celebrities. Early beefsteaks were held in a relaxed, men-only atmosphere, with diners sitting […]
On the first 90 degree day of the year, two pots of water are boiling away on the stove. We’re elbow deep in steaming potatoes plunked down and kneaded right on top of the kitchen table. Children are pouting. Children are running. Strangers are introducing themselves. I’m orchestrating a complex training scheme to facilitate efficient, […]
Ye blessèd creatures, I have heard the call Ye to each other make; I see The heavens laugh with you in your jubilee; My heart is at your festival, My head hath its coronal, The fulness of your bliss, I feel—I feel it all. – William Wordsworth “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early […]
What’s the most important and costly conversation Americans aren’t having? According to a group of medical and wellness leaders, it’s how we want to die. If 75% of Americans say they want to die at home, why do only 25% of them do? As a consequence of the United States’ unique profit-first health care, religious […]
The plan was to have a fairly traditional (for me) observance of the Easter Triduum, the three day period between Maundy Thursday and Easter that recalls the passion, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus as recorded in the canonical gospels. Nothing too disruptive. . . Nevertheless, true to form, I didn’t exactly stick to plan. […]
