My Saturday Six (chop, chop - it's almost Sunday!)

Please take this in the spirit it is given....

Part of me hates you....but only the part that is whining: "Crap. I'm still stuck getting up at 5:00 a.m. and still commuting 120 miles a day and still getting carsick & nauseated and retirement just got pushed out a few more years" kindof way.

The rest of me (the other 99.99%) is really, really happy for you.

Enjoy this time, my friend. Enjoy the birds waking you up. Enjoy the sun coming through the window and shining on your face. Enjoy arising to daylight instead of darkness. And finally taking a vacation WHEN EVERYONE ELSE GOES BACK TO SCHOOL!

 
No, I'm a couple.of hills to the West from there. I live that part of Filbert, I used to walk there

At lunch from downtown when I led a walking group at lunch time. So magical! Somewhere I have a book of stairwell walks in SF.

 
Update: Robert won the chimichurri contest today! He beat out the guys from his poker night

Who have been bragging how their stuff always wins. Hoo! He's very excited. It was so tasty! So proud of him!

 
Brown bagging it with the Martha Stwart folk? How fun! And happy to hear you and Sandra met up....

 
Sunday Six

1. Returning from Renee Behnke, owner of Sur La Table's book launch. Lovely woman, could have eaten my weight in those savory palmiers!

2. Thinking about tomorrow night's party, an Americana-inspired potluck with special guests...4 international fellows from India & Africa. Invited friends old and new-to-me...including some I've never met from Twitter. LOL! Looking forward to a night of deviled eggs, hot wings, pulled pork and I'm making root beer floats!

3. Extremely thankful for my relationship with Stumptown Cofee Roasters. My condo's too small. They're letting me have my little shindig at their roasting facilities tomorrow. Expecting 90+ people.

4. Visited a new version of a taco truck last week--in the shape of a pig on wheels. Seriously! Funny to see the guys coming in an out of the back end of the pig.

5. Picked up a new client last week...launching a restaurant early fall. Working with the chef & restaurant owner to refine the concept. Need to pick a name for the resto soon.

6. Planning to head to Rancho La Puerta sometime this summer. Trying to figure out when to go. http://www.rancholapuerta.com/

Bonus entry

7. Interviewing author of food writer's bible, "Will Work for Food" on Tuesday. Trying to figure out a. where my copy of the book is and b. can I read the whole thing before we talk on Tues.? (Who said craming for assigments was over in college???)

 
I use it for hiking, like a walking stick -- and you can mount your camera

on top of it to stabilize it -- you still need to hold on to it. Probably good for whacking bears, or, whatever needs whacking!

 
Good Texas BBQ! Two locations in Austin -- one in the hills and one on Town Lake (now known as Lady

Bird Lake). I have been trying to get Rudy's to go to NYC for the BAB, but so far they haven't gotten it together. I really like their brisket, and their jalapeno sausage is awesome. DS says they are better organized this year to alleviate the long lines. Have a great time - get the t-shirt! :p

http://www.saltlickbbq.com/

 
We all liked it, but thought it was just a little dark. My biggest question was

when Margaret was writing the biography? There weren't many clues as to the decade... She is a good writer -- I hope she chooses some brighter topics than death, incest, abuse and repression! Her prose is beautiful!

 
I love waking up at 6AM with the cardinals at my window with absolutely no reason to get up but to

feed the cats and enjoy the sunshine!!!

 
And that's the problem. To me, a lb would be at least 3 and probably 4 cups. I can't read the

recipe writer's mind. I do wish our cookbook/magazine writers weren't so weight-phobic, although, I think they guesstimate many times as they aren't in agreement.

 
I think you are right. I like odd numbers way better than even

and especially any number divisible by five. smileys/tongue.gif

 
Oh ya...I always give a little "heads up!" about the dark twists...but

that opening...when Margaret is reading at night-time and getting to the end of the book and her fingers--holding the pages back--are telling her that she's almost done and yet..and yet, there is no resolution in sight.

That was just plain brilliant and could only have been written by one who has read & loved many, many books.

As far as time frame: I took it to be "now" since she describes the large posters of the author while waiting for the bus. I don't think "book authors" were "advertised" with that kind of media blitz during an earlier time frame. I imagined her as a cantakerous Agatha Christie. Also, when she describes Aurelius' catering kitchen, the equipment seemed "modern" to me.

Yet I think she deliberately tried to keep the book from having a specific decade.

If it's a movie, I'd like it filmed sometime around the 40's or 50's.

I pictured the bookstore from "34 Charing Cross Road" for her father's store.

For Vita: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Helen Mirren (oh look...I haven't pick a single American actress).

For Margaret: Eva Green (if they could possibly make her look mousy, which I doubt), Rebecca Hall, Kelly McDonald, agree with you: Kate Winslet

 
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