“CHRYSALIS”

 So I was watching an indie film yesterday by director Dolly Wells about the life of a recluse famous writer as observed (third person) outside her "chrysalis" by an unexpected guest living with her in Brooklyn, NY.  The guest was not quite a stranger - in fact in the story her most recent...

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CHALLAH BOY

(Making challah in my NYC kitchen, ca. 2017.)The pastry chef-owner of Breads Bakery at Union Square Park in Manhattan gave me a starter yeast dough (twisted by hand a small portion from his master batch) and said deliberately: use those for your future bread baking. One of the best results of that "inheritance"...

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BEST CURRY YOU WILL MAKE

Ingredients: Uncooked french lentils and black beans 1/4 cup each, 1 med. yam root (with skin), cherry tomatoes 1/2 cup, young ginger root 3 nodes peeled and minced, garlic 3 small cloves peeled, shishito peppers 1 cup pitted, 3 small waxy potatoes, 2 lg. orange carrots with skin and quartered,...

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SURFING

 SURFINGSalad days.These are his fins.Hokusai big wave athelete.His roommate reading Ezra Pound.Two souls.Off the plate.Green macadamia andAdvanced Christmas lights on rocks.They understand their difference is a reflection  to cross. The same thing to ride.The same thing to write.Arugula...

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