FLOTUS covered her arms with a cool blue dress. Think Sunday’s NYTimes style section rant had anything to do with it?
Locative Gastronomy and Rasha’s Baba Ghanouj Recipe
Some life lessons are best expressed through an “everything I need to know about (x) I learned from (y)” statement. Like, Everything I need to know about love and relationships, I learned from Tom Waits (future book title), or Everything I need to know about opera, I learned from Loony Tunes (figaro, Figaro, FIGARO!). There are certain of these axioms I’d love to apply, like the Anthony Bourdain tenet of locative gastronomy – Everything I need to know about local food, I’ve learned from five star chefs (the closest I’ve gotten was an Istanbul self-date). Until the Travel Channel comes knocking with Bourdain’s budget, I’m sticking closer to: Everything I need to know about a location’s food and culture, I learned from Andrew Zimmern. Continue reading “Locative Gastronomy and Rasha’s Baba Ghanouj Recipe”
10,000 Sonic Tragically Barenaked Dolls vs One Spice Queen Madness
The first of a two part series examining the concept of a bi-national Olympic bid between the Western New York region and Southeast Ontario was recently published by Saving Cities. This first segment looks at the attractiveness of the region as hosts for the Summer Olympics, as well as the affordances a bid could offer the region. The second part looks at why this bi-national bid may not work out. As one security expert phrased it – “it’s an effing logistical nightmare.” Another expert estimates that there are no less than 7 agencies on each side working on security and border regulation, let alone the other logistics to be worked out. (Spoiler, it would still be a huge economic boost for the area to at least put the bid in.) Continue reading “10,000 Sonic Tragically Barenaked Dolls vs One Spice Queen Madness”
Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chapel
Weddings are awesome – celebrating someone you care about finding, in some form, The One or at least a perennial holiday date. Especially participating as a guest – no pressure on giving a toast, making sure other people have good times or any of the other duties of a party member. The downside of guestdom is the quest to look good at a wedding. I’m still not sure why this is more pressure than other parties, but maybe it’s the people taking all the pictures or the rare chance to get dressed up. Or maybe it is just the whole happy celebration vibe of the event. You want to look and feel good, because it’s such a great – and huge- day in peoples lives. A good friend was married this Sunday at St Patrick’s Old Cathedral in New York. The church, located in Soho on the corner of Mulberry and Prince, is the site of The City’s first Cathedral Church. Built in 1809, it precedes adaption of the Commissioners Plan for expansion of New York to encompass all of Manhattan. At its apex, it was at the center of Manhattan. Continue reading “Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Chapel”
Trademark, Meh
Apparently, in light of country’s strapped economic situation, Egypt ended up with counterfeit gear and wear for their Olympic athletes. The head of the Egyptian Olympic Committee, General Mahmoud Ahmed Ali, and his colleagues felt the cost of kitting out all 112 athletes plus the coaches, trainers and doctors accompanying the athletes in authentic gear to be too high, and went with a Chinese distributor to procure knockoff goods. And not even high quality, backroom in a shop on Canal St knockoffs either – the gear bags have both Nike and Adidas logos on them. (AP/Yahoo) Continue reading “Trademark, Meh”
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