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Another Way (cont.)
- Today it is stuffed with menus, postcards of
paintings, a drawing of a floor plan of an
abbey, Italian poems, and diagrams of the
garden. Because it is thick, I still have room
in it for a few more summers..."
"...cooking in a foreign kitchen and discovering
the many links between the food and the
culture--these intense joys frame the deeper
pleasure of learning to live another kind of life.
To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it
shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a
metaphor for the way life must change from
time to time if we are to go forward in our
thinking."
--- Frances Mayes
Under the Tuscan Sun, 1997
- Today it is stuffed with menus, postcards of
paintings, a drawing of a floor plan of an
abbey, Italian poems, and diagrams of the
garden. Because it is thick, I still have room
in it for a few more summers..."
"...cooking in a foreign kitchen and discovering
the many links between the food and the
culture--these intense joys frame the deeper
pleasure of learning to live another kind of life.
To bury the grape tendril in such a way that it
shoots out new growth I recognize easily as a
metaphor for the way life must change from
time to time if we are to go forward in our
thinking."
--- Frances Mayes
Under the Tuscan Sun, 1997
Live another way: Frances Mayes
- "our first summer here, I bought an
oversized blank book with Florentine
paper covers and blue leather binding.
On the first page I wrote ITALY. The book
looked as though it should have
immortal poetry in it, but I began with lists
of wildflowers, lists of projects, new
words, and sketches of tile in Pompeii. I
described rooms, trees, and birdcalls. I
added planting advice: 'Plant sunflowers
when the moon crosses Libra,'
although I had no clue myself as to when
that might be. I wrote about the people
we met and the food we cooked. The
book became a chronicle of our first four
years here.
- "our first summer here, I bought an
oversized blank book with Florentine
paper covers and blue leather binding.
On the first page I wrote ITALY. The book
looked as though it should have
immortal poetry in it, but I began with lists
of wildflowers, lists of projects, new
words, and sketches of tile in Pompeii. I
described rooms, trees, and birdcalls. I
added planting advice: 'Plant sunflowers
when the moon crosses Libra,'
although I had no clue myself as to when
that might be. I wrote about the people
we met and the food we cooked. The
book became a chronicle of our first four
years here.
Hunt & Gather: Angelo Garro / hidden
kitchen
- "I met Angelo Garro nearly a decade
ago. Nikki Silva and I were working on
our radio story 'Waiting For Joe
DiMaggio,' about the return of 'Joltin'
'Joe' to his parents' village in Sicily. We
needed help with some translation,
and a friend told us about a
blacksmith from Sicily at
'Renaissance Forge'--hidden down a
little alleyway in San Francisco--who
went out hunting and gathering and
cured his own olives... "
-- http://www.npr.org/ Hunting &
Gathering with Angelo Garro by the
Kitchen Sisters, 2004
kitchen
- "I met Angelo Garro nearly a decade
ago. Nikki Silva and I were working on
our radio story 'Waiting For Joe
DiMaggio,' about the return of 'Joltin'
'Joe' to his parents' village in Sicily. We
needed help with some translation,
and a friend told us about a
blacksmith from Sicily at
'Renaissance Forge'--hidden down a
little alleyway in San Francisco--who
went out hunting and gathering and
cured his own olives... "
-- http://www.npr.org/ Hunting &
Gathering with Angelo Garro by the
Kitchen Sisters, 2004
| Notes: What is Campaign "Style"? |
Mercantile
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| Florentine papers are still available today. Direct from Italy, that is what we use to embellish our favorite Moleskine Journals made in the concertina fold -out format. The format provides a panorama for campaign notes and handles sketches and/or notes without limit. With the Florentine papers added, you will know why the journals became so popular because that is how they were in Hemmingway's days. |
