Returning food to the sacred
“Then I asked the Roshi if he had any advice for me as the cook. His answer was straightforward and down-to-earth: ‘When you wash the rice, wash the rice; when you cut the carrots, cut the carrots; when you stir the soup, stir the soup.’ ‘Ok,’ I decided, ‘I’ll make those words my life.’ They […]
I’ve been back on the mainland, all over California, for the last month. My reasons for coming here were about the launch of this book that I did the photography for, and am co creating the online magazine for. (so much more on this later!) As you know though, I’m from California, and have […]
Throughout the course of my adult life, money and its abundance has ebbed and flowed quite a bit. Many of us share the memory of college days survived on Top Ramen and Big Gulps, no? Things changed over time, and as I embarked on my first career, income became steady and so did my ability […]
Growing up, we never had artichokes. It just isn’t part of the Cuban cuisine, and really, anything that would require eating with your hands would have utterly scandalized my mother. For a time growing up she tried to have us all eat pizza with a fork and knife, until my father intervened. I can’t remember […]
Inspired by my time with my brother over the last two weeks, I came home with a renewed passion for a deeper Food Practice with Jon. I shared with him that the structure of the day opened up such a lovely rhythm to the day, and it also lent itself to more face to face […]
“Self-restraint and self-command, consideration for others, politeness, fairness, generosity, tact, discernment, good taste, and the art of friendly conversation – all learnable and practiced at the table – enrich and ennoble all of human life.” ~The Hungry Soul: Eating and the Perfecting of Our Nature
I read this article on food, politics and Che Guevara a few weeks back and have been wanting to write about it since. There is so much colliding here in one little food truck; A revolutionary figure that has been commercialized and made into a symbol for the supposed freedom that comes from revolution, capitalization […]
The following list on centered dining comes from a book that I turn to almost daily now. Its not really a kitchen reference guide in the traditional sense of the word, but its certainly a guide for my own food practice. I thought to share it now, as we all begin to set tables for […]
A few months ago, I began doing an informal survey on people’s thoughts over the sensuality of watching people eat. Its a juicy topic and I’m still gathering thoughts and trying to wordsmith the post perfectly. In my ‘research’, a topic that came up for those in the dialogue was how intimate the act of […]
