Cooking And Eating....“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”

simple satisfaction.......Chinese eggplant, soaked overnight in sea salt brine, then roasted until creamy, with some olive oil and fiery hot tomato salsa.....rolled into tandoor-baked naan, pan seared in ghee.....a 6am breakfast on the side porch, awaiting the little yellow and orange birds, disguised as fall leaves........pecking up the "matching" crumbs from the pop-up toaster.....

    THESE 'CAKES' WERE FAR TASTIER THAN FRANK ZAPPA'S 'FISH HEAD STEAKS'.....

 Back to a temporary diet of whole grain oats, walnuts, grapes, roasted pumpkin and flax seeds, dried cranberries,  yellow raisins, sliced mangos and black cherries in organic goat's milk yoghurt, sweetened with sourwood honey and Madagascar vanilla extract.....

Ginger tea, preserved orange and lemon peels in honey, with English walnuts atop chia seed, and cognac-marinated black raisin fruitcake fill the bill on a chilly morning......reconstructed from a taste-memory from last night's Muted-Colour Dream of High Tea at Harrods, 40 years ago......displacing a rather boring pre-dawn intention to have a poached egg on sourwood toast......demonstrating how dreams can enhance the ordinariness of a chilly, housebound morning, viewing...for the umpteenth time......Ang Lee's hyper-detailed romantic study of Jane Austin's "Sense & Sensibility"s focus on elegant dining at a well-appointed Table....guests, all in beautiful Jenny Beavan finery.......may I utilize your dessert fork, if you will, Zack MacLeod Pinsent, since you can, surely, nibble this...even while wearing white gloves?

  yet, Americans still awaken after sleeping on their fat asses, declaring "I'm starving to death!".....as they raid their fridges and stovetops  for yesterday's high-calorie leftovers..... This Thursday.....Thanksgiving Day.....a couple of hundred million people will be gorging on the 'products' seen on this table.....with little variation.......