May 6, 2007
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EAT!
Cranberries and pumpkin and goats cheese. Fresh green melon. Prosciutto and grapes. Asparagus. Sea salt. Olives and their oil. Saffron. Apricots, plums, peaches.
I’ve been reading alot about food lately. Last week I read Isabel Allende’s Aphrodite, a book about the cultural history of aprodesiacs. Isabel Allende writes, “The most intense carnal pleasure, enjoyed at leisure in a clandestine, rumpled bed, a perfect combination of caresses, laughter, and intellectual games, has the taste of a baguette, prosciutto, French cheese, and Rhine wine.”
This week I’m reading Animal, Vegetable, Miricle by Barbra Kingsolver. I don’t think this book actually comes out until this summer, but Shaun got a proof of it at the London Book Fair for me. Its the amazing non-fiction story of Kingsolver’s family moving from Arizona to Apalacia in order to run an experiment: the family ate only locally grown foods for a year. Living on a farm made much of that possible, but Kingsolver presents many applicable ideas for city dwellers like myself. Anyhow, its a great book and very informative. Today I ate an omlette made from cheese from the Isle of Arran and wild mushrooms from the farmers market. It was absolute heaven.
Speaking of the Isle of Arran, I had myself a nice lil hike yesterday. Full story and pictures at:
www.lochnessblog.shaunmanning.com.
In other news, I got my hair did last week. Behold my glamor shot!!!!
Now go read my good blog at loch ness, will ya? It took forever to load the pictures today!
Comments (8)
Food glorious food! And books glorious books! A great combination.And I like the new ‘do, too!
Nice! You are too cute.I am heading over to Loch Ness now.I am going to try the 100 mile diet this summer myself. For only a week though. All fod must be produced within 100 miles of my home. I am a touch worried.
I read over there and I cannot comment. I logged in to my wordpress site but I do not think that is what is needed.I am going to check out the story link there as well.Living hard and playing hard, if it is to be done, you are are so right about now being the time! I had to laugh out loud about stag head stag head stag head.
Nice ‘do! The Kingsolver book sounds like it is right up my alley—I will have to check it out when it gets released.
PS, I alsoread the Loch Ness Blog, and I too had trouble commenting. Lovely story/pictures! The best advice I’ve ever been given is: “You can’t be perfect at everything all of the time.” (from my dad). It so interesting to see photos of the Scottish terrain—so completely different than what we have here in Oregon. It reminded me of that movie with what’s-his-name called The Man Who Went Up a Molehill and Came Down a Mountain. I usually don’t like movies with what’s-his-name but that one was rather cute.Why did you make it so people had to log in to comment? Was it to protect from spam? If so, I use three plugins to protect from that: Akismet, Bad Behavior, and Comment Timeout. Together, they work like a charm! I don’t get spam anymore.
Hugh Grant! That’s his name.
I love your hair!!! I am so sad right now. Please give the UK a hug for me.
Nice glamor shot (or should I say glamour?).You reminded me that my sister loaned my Aphrodite by Allende and I never gave it back–and I have no idea where it is! Ack!Lynn