TO HEALTH

Broiled eggplant and pickled cucumber on toasted sunflower bread with vegan butter. Vegetables from my landlady.“In the early 1960s, a physician named Stewart Wolf heard about a town of Italian immigrants and their descendants in northeast Pennsylvania where heart disease was practically unknown. Wolf...

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TURMERIC AND RAMBUTAN

 I was writing haikus deep in Iao Valley this morning where I swim, and I caught sight of two mating forest spiders on a web line over the rock pools. And I have to say it was fortuitous for the poem to receive this imagery on the accident that art was there. In grad school I remember my writing...

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ELIXIR CONGEE

GINGER, CARROTS, PIGEON PEAS, SAVOY CABBAGE RICE CONGEEThose are pretty much the ingredients for this healing soup, in that order you cook it with a little olive oil for sauté, it's good to have a hot vegetable stock standing by, also cooked white rice, you just have to do the slice-prepping of the...

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LIFE OF FOOD

 Without constant experiment literature dies. Experiment is one of the necessary elements to its life. Experiment aims at writing that will have a relation to the present analogous to the relation which past masterwork had to the life of its time.   — Ezra Pound    I think it...

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RESTAURANT GABRIEL KREUTHER

 New York City. Dec. 29, 2021A [personal] review. Arriving at the gilded reception where the maître d' greeted us to our table was immediate to send the sommelier, noticing the need, after peeling off my heavy scarf intuitively. Fig carpaccio with the Alsatian Beaujolais summoned. Impressive match....

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CULMINATION TABLE

 It’s 5:24am and I’m at JFK on New Year’s Day waiting for my flight back to Hawaii, but yesterday for Eve not long ago this brunch table I put together for dear friends (see photo: I rented an entire apartment in Brooklyn for the holidays with the requisite kitchen) was a culmination of sorts—...

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