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How to Build A Wall | performances by Stacey Cann | May 17, 18, & 19, 2019
Walls can both protect and isolate. This work is about protection, withdrawal, and vulnerability. How to Build a Wall uses humour and absurdity to confront real issues of protection, frailty, isolation, failure, and building barriers.
Stacey Cann is an Edmonton based artist who uses performance and installation to confront the daily realities of her life. Her performances often use absurdity and humour to explore her experiences of street harassment, working, and social isolation. Stacey has shown her work throughout Canada and the United States.
Tamires Para
Blended Realities: healing cultural scars
April 13 - May 4, 2019
Tamires Para's art depicts the multiple facets of her experience growing up in Brazilian patriarchal society.
Blended Realities:healing cultural scars is about insidious trauma women experience under patriarchal societies and the scars it provokes. By relating the artist's lived experience with that of Edmonton women, this exhibition seeks to unveil the process of creating such images in watercolor. Join us in a quest inside the mind of an artist that seeks healing from trauma.
Limited Time Offer
An immersive installation by local artist and creator of thecreativethrob.ca,
Brittney Roy.
Open Walls 4 Dec 3 - 22
Works from any and all artists will be on display in our 4th annual OPEN WALLS Exhibition each Saturday from December 8th - 22nd, 2018 11am - 3pm or by appointment.
Any artist is welcome to contribute 1 work of their own to this non-juried exhibition. OPEN WALLS is a rolling-submission show, which means we will also take in work throughout the run of the show, when we are open, until our walls are full.
Champions of Alberta Avenue
A community-driven project that utilizes photography, video, and written word to share the stories of 11 businesses started by immigrants and refugees along 118 Ave. This project offers a unique opportunity for community members to celebrate the multicultural richness of the District and the people who have contributed to it – the true Champions of Alberta Avenue
Kaleido Family Arts Festival Student Gallery
September 14, 2018
Stop in an enjoy this array of beautiful artwork by students from Elementary/Junior High Schools in surrounding neighbourhoods (Ben Calf Robe - St Clare, Montrose, Mount Royal, St. Nicholas, Spruce Avenue, and Virginia Park), as part of the 2018 Kaleido Festival.
Marina Hulzenga
June 2 - 30, 2018
LIMINAL SPACE: The space of a threshold from one domain to another.
AWASITIPAHASKAN: 'Across the border line' in the Indigenous language of Cree.
By unfolding and deconstructing the map, this exhibition pays witness to the border spaces of Alberta's 141 First Nation Reserves. At the edges of these reserves an expanse of liminal space lies, manifesting itself through various physical, social and emotional experiences. With this collection of maps, a new territory of conversation is created.
Photo credit: Miriam van Eck.
View Marina Hulzenga's work online at http://www.marinahulzenga.com/
Against the Patriarchy: Tools for the Revolution
Stephanie Jonsson
April 21 - May 12, 2018
"For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support." - Audre Lorde, 1979
Through this body of work, I am attempting to dismantle the Master's house without the use of the Master's tools. These sculptures are a set of metaphorical feminist tools with which to smash the patriarchy. I am digging deep to find the areas within myself that uphold systematic herteronormative white male privilege. While using traditionally female dominated arenas of life (domesticity as a revolutionary act), I am reclaiming craft as a viable voice of dissent. In this, I grapple with my Modernist artistic upbringing and its agenda to negate craft and ornament. This body of work is a response to this patriarchal world and its histories, seen through the lens of Craftivism, which aims to create wider conversations about uncomfortable social issues.
For more information on the artist, please visit
Regarding Mary
Marlena Wyman
March 10 - April 7, 2018
Regarding Mary is inspired by the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, interpreted in representations of her as mother, through materials that speak of women's work, and through her "found Mary" explorations.
In her former work as an archivist, Wyman found that one of the significant gaps in archival collections and in mainstream history is that of women's stories, especially early prairie women. As an artist, she advocates for their rightful place in history, and encourages women to deposit their own and their foremothers' records in archives.
View more about Regarding Mary and Marlena Wyman on her website and blog.
Contemporary Relics
Dominika Koziak
February 10 - March 3, 2018
Contemporary Relics takes a look at the transcendence of idolization in today's media and pop culture into the realm of religion. Dominik's paintings reference icons and relics of Catholicism, with re-imaginations that challenge the boundaries of devotion and obsession.
View Dominik Koziak's website here
Origin Stories
Jenny Hawkinson
January 6 - 27, 2018
Origin Stories is an exploration into the external factors that contribute to an identity. It questions the authenticity of personal and collective memory/loss, and the desire to find home in the midst of a shifting world.
Open Walls:
Community Works
November 25 - December 16, 2017
Your art, our walls. Be inspired by works from over 45 local artists in this 'open mic for visual art'.
Blair Brennan:
Get it Down on Paper
October 28 - November 18, 2017
Dozens of spontaneous, automatic drawings from internationally exhibited Edmonton artist, Blair Brennan.
Blair Brennan is represented by DC3 Art Projects.
View Blair Brennan's website at http://blairbrennan.com
Jennifer Berkenbosch
September 13 - October 14, 2017
Recent two-dimensional mixed-media works.
Presented in partnership with The Front Gallery.
View Jennifer Berkenbosch's website at http://jenniferberkenbosch.com
A Group Show Curated by The Green Room (IFSSA)
May 23 - July 4, 2017
As children of immigrants who are living on Treaty Six territory, what does home mean to us? As Muslims living in North America, what does belonging look like, especially given the recent political climate? As people of colour living in a time of immense fear mongering, what does it mean to build a home and community amongst friends and strangers?
The HOME exhibit is a showcase of photographs that depict the meaning of belonging, family, and rootedness to fifteen Muslim youth in Edmonton.
More information and a listing of Conversation Series events tied to HOME can be found here.
Visit The Green Room (IFSSA) online at http://www.thegreenroomyeg.ca
Maskihkîy Âcimowin / Medicine Stories
May 28 - June 21, 2017 (outdoor installation in the green space across from the gallery)
In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action, the Diocese of Edmonton's Indigenous Ministries Initiative and Bleeding Heart Art Space collaborated on Maskihkîy âcimowin/Medicine Stories, a public art installation that opened Saturday, May 28th, 2017.
derek beaulieu | Alex Linfield | Ryan McCourt | Petra Schulze-Wollgast
Curated by Edward Van Vliet
April 22 - May 20, 2017
Edmonton poet and visual artist Edward Van Vliet brings these two passions together into a collective exploration of the ways text and image interact in arts.
Hilary Mussell
February 4 - March 11, 2017
Sculptural works by Hilary Mussell. View Mussell's sculptures on her site at http://www.hilarymussell.com/#!sculpture/c1zuo
Built to Last
Carly Greene
December 3, 2016 - January 21, 2017
Installation artist Carly Greene explores memory and shelter in the Bleeding Heart Art Space.
Visit Carly Greene online at http://www.carlygreene.com
Open Walls 2
October 29 - November 19
Everyone gets space in this annual group show open to artists from backgrounds and skill levels.
Our walls. Your art.
Brandon Atkinson
Drawings that blend Atkinson's tattoo-inspired style and stories from his Indigenous traditions.
(This show was part of the Kaleido Family Arts Festival.)
What Bernice Sees
Bernice Caligiuri
May 21 - July 2, 2016
Bernice Caligiuri is an multi-disciplinary self-taught artist and long-term resident of the Parkdale Community. Her work spans decades and nearly every conceivable medium, from poetry to painting; photography to sculpture; furniture making to crochet to cross-stitch landscape painting.
Visit Alberta Avenue and you're likely catch Bernice sharing coffee at the Carrot or reading poems at an open mic. She may be wandering the Kaleido Festival grounds in her trademark purple jumpsuit and matching purple hair. She might walk up to you to hand you a photograph she's taken. A photograph of you.
What Bernice Sees presents dozens of previously unseen works by Bernice Caligiuri, curated to reflect the sheer volume and variety of Bernice's creative output over decades. The Bleeding Heart Art Space will be transformed into menagerie of creative explorations, with new discoveries in every corner. In addition to 2 dimensional visual works and sculptural pieces, a large bookshelf will house forty photo albums packed with snapshots Bernice has taken of the Alberta Avenue arts revitalization.
Printed copies of Bernice's poems will be available to read, with a live reading from Bernice at the show's opening.
Come and let What Bernice Sees change the way you see.
Sweet Jesus
Borys Tarasenko
Come to Jesus
"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians." Mahatma Gandhi
My name is Borys Tarasenko. At the time of my birth my dad was parish priest at Sts. Borys and Hlib Church in Redwater, Alberta, so it is no great mystery how my name was chosen. I go to church at least once every week. Sometimes more than once a week. It has been this way always. Hours a week I am surrounded by Byzantine iconography, a very specific visual system establishing the Christian narrative and the individuals important to the Catholic Church. I have been an altar boy, a priest helper or "palamar", a youth group member, a pincher of parish perogies, a choir member, a church janitor, and a cantor. Figuratively and literally I have grown up very close to the Church. However, few who are close to me would call me a spiritual person. My formal education led me away from a Catholic understanding of the universe and my principles have grown to be different from those of my Church. But the rituals I grew up with are my rituals today, and I continue to attend church.
With SWEET JESUS, I am attempting to articulate the beauty and incongruity of my own spiritual life and play with what I feel is at the heart of the New Testament. SWEET JESUS is a series of sitespecific temporary murals in the Bleeding Heart Art Space, and an amplification of my colouring book, the original springboard for this content. Prayer is not always oral. Colouring has an unmistakable meditative quality, and iconography is viewed as prayer. In this way, the audience is invited to colour and complete SWEET JESUS with their own offering of visual prayer.
About the Artist
Borys Tarasenko is a Canadian artist and illustrator based in Edmonton, Alberta. A BFA Art & Design grad from University of Alberta with a focus in Painting, Borys now works in a variety of media to examine spirituality, human consumption, and cultural identity. This past year Borys released SWEET JESUS: A Colouring Book, a collection of illustrations acting as an eccentric supplement to the lore of Jesus Christ. Borys, a church cantor and son of a Ukrainian Catholic priest, further investigates a complicated and incongruous spiritual life with the interactive, site-specific solo exhibition SWEET JESUS.
Ni wapataenan (We see)
February 7 - March 5, 2016
92nd Street and 118 Ave
Ni wapataenan is Michif for "we see" (Michif is a traditional language of the Metis people).
The We See project seeks to participate in the process of reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous people as laid out by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In particular, this project hopes to further reconciliation in Edmonton neighbourhoods and communities by creating opportunities for engagement and response through art, listening, conversation, and interactive educational activities.
We See aims to engage the stories of our shared history in this land. When we are able to see ourselves and our place in the stories of the relationship between settlers and indigenous peoples, and see how those stories intersect with the stories of our own lives, then we can begin to imagine a new story together--one where each of us can take action to acknowledge truth, and pursue healing, justice, reconciliation and change so that the future does not look the past. Our hope is that new ways of seeing will lead to new ways of thinking and acting.
We See has chosen to highlight the lived experiences of missing and murdered indigenous women and their families through an interactive, participatory outdoor public art installation incorporating red dresses and an empty tipi frame. Metis artist Jamie Black's work with red dresses has made them a way of making the nearly 1200 missing and murdered indigenous women of this country present and visible as mothers, sisters, friends, daughters and as part of the fabric of our communities
On Sunday, February 7, at 2 PM, this installation opened in the field at 118th Ave and 92nd street.
This project has been inspired by the REDress project originated by Jaime Black in Winnipeg.
We are so grateful for her work, and her encouragement of related projects which have taken shape across the country.
Find out more about her original project at http://www.theredressproject.org
kâ-katawasisicik iskwêwak
Lana Whiskeyjack
January 30 - March 5, 2016
kâ-katawasisicik iskwêwak is pronounced [kaa kut tuh wus SIS (sit) tsik ISS kway wuck] and means "beautiful women", "women who are beautiful".
Artist Statement
My art springs from gratitude - a powerful teaching and practice of my grandmothers. I create to honour them; to continue the work they left to challenge me; and to express that which fear attempts to silence. The beauty of my grandmothers stems from their freakish strength and courage. I am eternally grateful to carry the blood of these strong nehiyaw iskwewak (Cree Women). When I create, I connect to spirit, not just mine and those I came from, but also to those who bless me with their presence and guidance.
Each work of art communicates the iskotew (fire) that lives within the centre of my iskwew (woman) being. The place that my passion, determination, and Cree humour reside. Colour and form sing that which my words cannot express, each sending their waves of energy to communicate the light that defies the darkness. I create to transform the darkness of being from oppressed/colonized/assimilated people into the dream of all our grandmothers and grandfathers – to live a good life - miyopimâtisiwin.
Art is language that carries spirit. I want to speak my truth. To educate, to create dialogue, and to share good medicine.
ay ay mistahi – thank you with great respect
About the Artist
ayisîyiniw ôta asiskiy I am human being from this earth.
Lana Whiskeyjack is a multidisciplinary treaty Indian artist from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, Treaty Six Territory, Alberta. Among her early influences and teachers were her mother's and grandmother's gifts in the traditional arts (beadwork, moose hair tufting, fish scale, moccasin making, quilting, and sewing). At 10 years old, her mother's gift of a book of Pablo Picasso's etchings changed her life, the simple and expressive lines influenced her to draw on everything she could.
After graduating high school, the young single mom moved to Red Deer to attain her Art & Design diploma, then moved with her two children to Edmonton to work at the Royal Alberta Museum, after a few years she returned to school to fill her hunger for sculpting at the University of Alberta. She fell crazy in love with a brilliant Cree man and joined him in an adventure that included moving across the country to Ottawa, attaining B.A. (Honours) and M.A (Canadian Studies) degrees. The story continues with doctorate degree at University nuhelot'įne thaiyots'į nistameyimâkanak Blue Quills in iyiniw pimâtisiwin kiskeyihtamowin (Indigenous Studies).
Guided by her grandmothers advice, "Go to school, travel, and see as much as you can. Then return home to share what you learned, but do not forget where you came from.", Lana returned home to work at the first Indigenous owned and operated educational institution in Canada, UnBQ. Prior to 1970, UnBQ operated as Blue Quills Indian Residential School, where two generations of her maternal family attended.
Lana's research, writing, and art explores the paradoxes of what it means to be nehiyaw (Cree) and iskwew (woman) in a Western culture and society and how she and other Indigenous women are reclaiming, re-gathering, and remembering their ancestral medicine (sacredness and power)
Her art is passionate and expressive, born from the deep roots of her culture, history, and ancestors. With emotionally charged expression, Lana art ranges from dry wit to soul-full colourful creations. Through the examination of sometimes difficult subjects, her art reflects the intrinsic beauty of her interconnections with the earth, environment and living beings. She invites you to join her on the next chapter of her adventure.
View Lana Whiskeyjack's website at lanawhiskeyjack.ca
Waiting Room: A Sound and Video Installation
Alysha Creighton
November 21, 2015 - January 15, 2015
Alysha Creighton's new multimedia work Waiting Room poses the river as a site of healing, source of life and liminal place. This two part installation addresses both the interior and exterior spaces of the gallery through video, sound and interactive technologies.
A large-scale site-specific video projection illuminates the exterior of the gallery. The imagery of running water interjects in the dark, mid-winter cityscape of busy 118th Avenue. The projection runs through the night, bringing light and motion to the street.
Inside the gallery an immersive soundscape envelops viewers with the sounds of rushing water. Viewers are invited into a contemplative space where they may interact with the soundscape exploring the tension between sound and silence.
Alysha Creighton is a visual artist working in drawing, video, installation, and performance-based practice. She holds an MFA in Drawing and Intermedia from the University of Alberta. She has exhibited extensively within Edmonton as well as across Canada and the United States. She is a drawing instructor at the Univeristy of Alberta and a lead artist at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the arts.
OPEN WALLS: Works from Community
OPEN WALLS is a grand experiment in community creativity. We have opened up our space for the public to submit a work of art which we will display, and if they want, sell. There are very few limits, and very many wonderful pieces to take in.
Early test results are positive.
Forgotten Places
Riley Tenove
September 5 - October 22, 2015
"These works concerning Edmonton are a reflection on mental states and the urban environment ... my personal interest seems to stem from a desire to remember forlorn areas of towns and the unique ideas they conjure in me. Each painting in this series is meant to depict the beauty of the forgettable and their novelty ... This series focuses on the under-appreciated areas of town with a sense of transience in order to emphasize that subtle influence a place has on our daily lives". - Riley Tenove
Riley Tenove is an Edmonton based artist who holds a Diploma in Fine Arts from MacEwan University. Find him online at http://rileytenove.space
The Battle of Barking Creek
Rob Harpin
June 20 - July 2015
The Battle of Barking Creek was the first time one of the most beautiful aeroplane designs showcased its prowess and ability over the skies of Europe. Three days into World War II, Supermarine Spitfires shot down two fellow British aeroplanes killing one pilot and chalking up the first British airman casualty of the war. This exhibit explores the Spitfires elegant design and a deadly mistake.
Bridge Songs: Perfict
June 13, 2015
Art, music and language that deals with perfection, perfectionism, failure and utopian ideals.
The First Metaphor
Poetry By Kelly Shepherd
Linocuts By Alison Kubbos
April 19 - May 30, 2015
"The First Metaphor is a collaborative gallery show made up of 14 linocut images by Valemount BC visual artist Alison Kubbos, paired with 14 poems by Edmonton writer Kelly Shepherd. These pairings, or "stations," are meant to explore and blur the lines between the conscious and the unconscious, and particularly between the human and other-than-human worlds. Hidden (perhaps not too deeply) within the 14 stations are mythical, ecological, and religious images and themes." (from the Edmonton Poetry Festival website)
Curated by Mark Power
March 28 - April 11, 2015
"Life2 selected seven parolees, each vetted for their determination to make a change for the better, and paired them with seven of Edmonton's most talented photographers."
Get more info on this exhibit at giveofyourself.com
Inner Core
Marcie Rohr
Saturday January 10 & Sunday January 11
"It's that time of year again. Frozen wind chapped cheeks, running to various places of warmth, away from the cold. A time when we are so subject to the whims of Mother Earth, we find ourselves aching for a warmer day—or for somewhere else, no matter where. My work reflects the angst I feel as these cold winds blow; driving me inwards to seek shelter, and in the same instant driving my very blood towards vital organs. It's in winter that I truly wonder what is at my core. I draw from Indigenous themes of the Medicine Wheel as I ponder all I have to learn about the ways of these cold winds: how they can act as agents of change to shift and sculpt what is at my core. My work reflects concepts of winter from various vantage points: historical, Indigenous, aerial, philosophical, non-western, and traditional. In relation to my travels, it reflects the mercilessness of all the climates I have faced, in far flung corners of the globe, freeing me from the illusion that Canadian winter is always the highest ground for self-pity. Through INNER CORE I seek to ask the viewer to consider what aspects of their subconscious person are exposed and sculpted by the harsh winter winds." - Marcie Rohr, 2015
Blue Christmas
Featuring glass by Keith Walker
December 6-21, 2014
Longest Night Liturgy on December 21 at 4 PM
Our first installation in our new home on Alberta Avenue, Blue Christmas will create a space for shared grief during the holidays–a time of difficult joy for those who have suffered loss at this time of year.
Bridge Songs: Dear Edmonton,
June 14 | St. Faith's Anglican Church
November 15 & 16, 2013 (Part Of The #JusticeYEG Conference)
See photos from this exhibit Read a full reflection on the gallery here.
Bridge Songs: Heartbreak
June, 2013 | St Faith's Anglican Church
This year's annual event focussed on Heartbreak. Our gallery featured works by Grace Law, Alexis Marie Chute and others.
Let's Begin
November, 2012 | The Studio
A group show exploring beginnings, endings and the season of Advent. Featuring works by Jessica Culling, Alexis Marie Chute, Little Miss Justice, Keith Walker and Lori Anne Youngman.


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Time the Destroyer
Time The Destroyer are a band known as being "a melodic train wreck" who formed in 2008 in the musical hot-bed of Guelph, Ontario.
After two years of writing, recording, destroying, rebuilding, moving, changing and playing shows in living rooms and venues across Guelph and area, we took a break in June of 2010 to gather our strength, recuperate and consider our next move.
Since the bands hiatus in 2010 there have been hints of a revival but it wasn't until a few of the members got together for an impromptu jam in August 2011 that got serious talks going to re-activate the Destroyer.
Now, a short year later, there are inklings of a revival, a re-birth of epic proportions, as it were.
Style of music: Metal
For booking contact Nik Wever.
Find Time The Destroyer Online
Instagram: @timethedestroyer

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Is the financing of dividends through debt responsible? EDF case
At the announcement of EDF's results, the new Chairman-CEO, Jean-Bernard Lévy, seems to be discovering or at least worries about financing the dividend through debt (see Les Echos and Agefi). The same day, ERAFP, a civil servants' pension fund, announces its voting policy and commitment for 2015 focusing on "the implementation of responsible policies regarding the distribution of dividends".
At EDF, the issue of reasonable dividend levels had already been discussed during the 2014 General Meeting: facing the proposal of the Board of Directors of a dividend of €1.25 per share, the employee share ownership fund "Actions EDF" for its part suggested €0.80 per share. In the end, the resolution of the Board offering € 1.25 per share was adopted at 98.4% of the votes against only 2.1% in favor of the second proposal of € 0.80. The state, in desperate need of this dividend because of short-term budgetary constraints, weighed 93% of the votes of the GA, but one wonders why so few of EDF's minority shareholders questioned this policy of funding dividend through debt.
Proxinvest, in its study, noted:
"It is quite disturbing that cash flow after net investments excluding strategic transactions and net changes in working capital was negative in 2012 (-1.9 billion) and 2013 (-1.1 billion). Despite the Operating Cash Flow, which improved from € 12.3 billion to € 13 billion in 2013, the cash flow after dividends remains negative. Given the significant investment policy envisioned for the coming years and the current level of debt (net debt, including subordinated debt, being higher than equity), it seems best not to finance all or part of the dividend with new debt or new issuance of subordinated securities (remuneration between 4.25% and 6% per year for emissions 2013).
It seems less risky for the future of the group and its shareholders to back the dividend suggested by the employee share ownership fund which, far from negligible, seems better funded and more responsible on the long term. Therefore the proposed distribution of the board is not supported."
The equity investment can finance the economy but remains risky. It is therefore legitimate to pay for it through dividends. However, being a responsible shareholder means remembering that, ultimately, the shareholder is only paid once every other stakeholder was and after every investment is. Debt is not intended to finance dividends, other than creating risks - not necessary - for the survival of businesses.
The EDF example also shows that voting during general meetings is an essential part of the management process. Investors' financial decisions cannot be reduced to mere decisions of purchases or sales and significant financial decisions are made in a general meeting. It is therefore important that the resources allocated to the analyses of general meetings are sufficient in management companies as among institutional investors.
The 2014 Florange Act intends to reduce the powers of minority shareholders, private, institutional and management companies, offering only to holders of registered shares for at least two years to carry double voting rights hence protecting issuers against public offers. At EDF, it is the main beneficiary of this future double voting right, the state, which requests and supports this dividend funded through debt. Not so responsible and rather short-termist ... This double voting right, resented by foreign investors who feel partially expropriated, will in fact allow the state to sell part of its stake all the while keeping the same level of control.
This is a short-term incentive mechanism for indebted shareholders, which even offers perks for leaving shareholders : nothing to do with long-term investments ...
Posted on February 13, 2015 by Proxinvest


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Jake Davis Test Shots: Tanya Romero
Winter's juss' ending, summer's juss' now, and this is the first thing that comes to mind – weird, right? Jake Davis used to put these out quite frequently but lately he's been fairly (lowkey) quiet. It just goes to show if you make cool stuff, it'll be remembered.
See the rest on Jake Davis' Test Shots Channel
Catch up on Jake Davis' Twitter


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This was the outcome of a recipe I found here, modified to suit my taste.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Zucchini Pancakes
Cooked by TBC on Tuesday, July 17, 2007
4 Burps:
- Kristen said...
I just got a bunch of zucchinis. What a great idea for a way to use them up!
- July 18, 2007 at 10:09 AM
- TBC said...
Thanks, Kristen. It was pretty simple to make too & did not take more than 10 min.
- July 18, 2007 at 10:47 AM
- SeeC said...
Thats a great try. Shows your interest.
You seem to be a good photographer too.
Look at the (background) combination in each picture. Good work.
- July 26, 2007 at 10:51 AM
- TBC said...
Thank you for your kind words.I have just started taking an interest in food photography now, thanks to all the food blogs out there.
- July 26, 2007 at 1:57 PM
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Check out this neat music video for The Breeders song "Walk it Off". Click the numbers and you can change your POV of the action as the video is playing. Everything hits "in time" with your clicks. Super cool and some really rick thinking I might add. Just another notch for the music scene and the constant marketing innovation we're seeing come out of it.
We all know online video won't exist solely in the "flat" format we consume it in today and little advancements like this show the depth of the medium waiting to be unleashed.


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I have been wanting to experiment with Precious Metal Clay, ever since I found a post on Craftster about someone making a pendant that looked like silver, but I was not sure, and they described the process to me.
Seemed like magic, but it is very real, and makes sense!
There are lots of tiny pieces of silver mixed into an organic paste. By burning this paste, the organic material turns to smoke, and the silver particles fuse together, creating .999 fine silver metal!
Oooh burning something to turn to silver must such a high temperature to do that…not really, now the particles in the silver are so tiny, it can be done with a butane torch, which is exactly how I did it. The same torch used to make creme brullee.
This material can be found in lump form – can be rolled, cut, shaped, dried and carved, paste form can be painted on burning items, paper (haven't figured out exactly what to do with it, origami is one option, weaving another, overlaying..), syringe…imagine the possibilities! Even some lab grown stones like CZ and other stones that resist high temperatures can be burned with it.
Enameling is the next thing I'd like to try, especially on this Indian pendant.
After the burning process, different finishes can be applied with a brass brush, burning, tumbling or filing.
For this pendant I have chose to brush it, the burnish the edges with a round steel burnisher and leave the lower zones almost white.
Patina or other oxidizers can darken the silver, and then lustering the high zones again, will accent the detailing even more.
This pendant has been oxidized by placing it in a plastic bowl with hard boiled egg yolk. I think it contains some sulfur in it so it works like the patina, but a lot slower. It can be left like this overnight for a deeper effect.
So here is the result of my first PMC experiment (lump form of PMC+ Quick fire), after months of reading and impatient waiting for it and the tools to arrive:
The print was inspired by my trip to Yuma, Arizona.
It has been stamped with the hair accessory into the rolled clay, then a triangle has been cut around the design.


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Welcome to all Jacican going-ons.
2019 is the year to focus on cooking classes, as well as getting out and about and meeting new (and all my) friends.
Now you can only visit Jacican as a guest in a cooking class or when you book a private gathering. Private gathering can be anything. This year we have had Vegan cooking classes, private harvest lunches, group training for mentors and their mentees.
Upcoming Jacican events: Pastry Cooking classes and Harvest Lunches
Lolly - Musk Sticks
My nine-year-old niece told me about this recipe, asking if I could get her some musk flavour, as it can't be found in the supermarket. Which I did.
Together we made my first batch of musk sticks. That was five years ago and now I make musk sticks all the time (along with many other types of handmade lollies). The 'sticks' come in many flavours – musk, bubble-gum, peppermint, vanilla, passionfruit. Any flavour or colour you can think of.
This recipe has led me from cooking with kids, to cooking classes for grown-ups and now taking part in the Village fest in Jindivick.
If you would like to make your own, with a little help from me, come along to a Jacican - Make your own bag of Lollies cooking class.
Please let me share the recipe with you.
- 640 grams of icing sugar, sifted
- 1 teaspoon gelatine
- 1 teaspoon glucose
- 75 ml water
- 1 ml of musk flavor
- pink food coloring


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Fluent~Collaborative & testsite are pleased to present testsite 15.3: Lenka Clayton & Veronica Roberts: TYPEWRITER DRAWINGS, an installation of works on paper by British-born, Pittsburgh-based artist Lenka Clayton. Curated by Veronica Roberts, this is Clayton's first exhibition in Texas. The project opens on Sunday, October 11 with a public reception from 4 to 6pm, and a conversation between the artist and the curator at 4:30pm.
This intimate installation features approximately twenty-six drawings as well as one work on cloth. Since 2012 Lenka Clayton has been using a typewriter as a tool for drawing, and at the same time as an obstruction to drawing. Her ongoing series, Typewriter Drawings, misuses a machine designed to effortlessly accomplish one kind of task to achieve another for which it is quite unsuited. The drawings act as a diary of sorts, depicting objects or moments that happened over the course of a day, or that appeared as fleeting visions while the artist went about other quotidian tasks. Additionally, every November she and a collaborator—the writer and artist Michael Crowe—each make concurrent drawings on their typewriters (he in London, UK; she in Pittsburgh, USA). A selection of the artists' paired drawings will be exhibited in the dining room at testsite during this presentation.
The presentation will also include Hand-Typed Polka-Dot Shirt, 2015. The button-down shirt—originally manufactured by an anonymous garment worker—was disassembled at the seams into twenty-one component parts and each piece run through a typewriter. The 'period' key was pressed over 20,000 times to create a polka-dot pattern, hand-typed directly onto the fabric. Once printed, the pieces were hand-sewn back together. At first glance, the pattern may appear industrially printed, yet on closer inspection mistakes can be glimpsed, such as an accidental "m" marking, or a misaligned row. Together, the typewriter drawings and shirt illuminate Clayton's ability to find new and inventive ways to make art using very old tools.
Lenka Clayton grew up in Cornwall, United Kingdom, and is currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In previous work she has hand-numbered 7,000 stones, filmed a person of each age from 1 to 100 years old, and reconstituted a lost museum from a sketch on the back of an envelope. From 2012 to 2015, she was the world's first Artist-in-Residence-in-Motherhood after founding a fully funded, structured artist residency that took place inside her home as a mother of two young children. She and artist Michael Crowe are currently endeavoring to write a unique, personal letter to every household in the world.
Lenka holds an MA in Documentary Direction from the National Film & Television School (Beaconsfield, U.K.) and a BA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins (London). Her work has been internationally exhibited, including at MoMA and Anthology Film Archives in New York City; Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh; FRAC Le Plateau in Paris; Kunsthalle St. Gallen in Switzerland; at the Tehran International Documentary Festival; and after the evening news on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. Lenka has also been featured on PBS' The Art Assignment hosted by curator Sarah Green. She is a recent recipient of a Heinz Endowments/Pittsburgh Foundation Creative Development Grant, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and a Carol R. Brown Award for Creative Achievement. She is currently artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia. For more information: www.lenkaclayton.com.
Veronica Roberts is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas. She is currently preparing a mid-career survey of Nina Katchadourian, opening at the Blanton in spring 2017. Her most recent exhibition, Converging Lines: Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt is touring to the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA (fall 2015) and Cleveland Museum of Art (Spring 2016) after opening at the Blanton in 2014. Prior to working at the Blanton, she held curatorial positions at the Museum of Modern Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art. She received her MA in the history of art and architecture from UC Santa Barbara and her BA in art history from Williams College.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011 By Maryam
Then, I saw the man, the bearded man. How long had he been lying on the floor? How long had he stayed in the desert? He mumbled and then his voice became clear. He said that he had spent 40 days in the desert, trying to find a spot that others tried to veil for him. He had left his camel, and he didn't know if he would find him again. He spent whole nights under the stars with just water and dates in his pocket. He mumbled again. The youngsters asked him many questions, among them "did you see your daughter? God's willing you will pay for that in the Judgement Day". Well, I thought the man looked drunk, but that was not possible, he didn't smell alcohol at all, and he was a man of religion. A happy unconscious sad face, a man who didn't understand the meaning of his fatality. Who had spent days trying to find something without success. I could only ask "What were you looking for"? He became almost angry and replied : "I've been looking for you, and you, and you too, and you, and you...." pointing to all of us, with a trembling, infirm finger, with a long nail and fiery eyes. We are not people from the desert, and we are not better than you, I said. "Probably not", he replied, but what I was looking for was here, the mere life, the mere breath, the simple joy, the dirty laugh, the deep compassion." As I tried to get rid of his hand who grabbed me by my skirt, he looked to the sky and said: "I do not own anything, yet I receive so much mockery, so much help, so much attention". The youngsters looked at him startled. And he became a dazing voice, saying poems aloud, thanking God for the dust, for the so called empty days and nights in the desert if that was to find our love and also disrespect, for "all that comes from humanity becomes a necessary lesson in my life". He stood up, and left with help of a cane, his cloths dirty and his feet naked. We all spent a few talking about what had just happened, when the youngest boy pointed to the pavement where that man had been lying and said "Look!, a book he left!" I took the book, a little book, very old and used, and read the first sentence: "You helped me find my way, now I can die in peace. I could not speak, I had no time to, they all took my words before I was even going to utter them". You will never see me again in this life. I am free. And suddenly, the minaret let waves of candor come to our ears and hearts. The muezzin was calling us for a prayer.
The mysterious man never came again, and finally, the youngsters avoided that they had just invented the story of him beating his daughter. For they had never seen that man before. The following weeks I would stare at the same point but the man wasn't there. The youngsters would look at me with a question mark on their faces. "No, I haven't seen him". And after all, God always sends mysteries that can never be solved until we are wise enough to perceive the source of such mysteries. These youngsters now, when they see me, they greet me and look more serious than before. Somehow they have grown up a little more and they approach to give me some words of respect. About the woman, she screams my name until I turn and see her, and invites me to go to her house and try her dinner with her family. We have become good neighbors all of us, and still the minaret smiles to the crowd and to us, while the birds sing strange songs they only understand.
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Enchanted Review
Beware parents. Your kids–especially your little girls–will want to see Enchanted over and over whether you want to sit through all the sugary sweetness multiple times or not. The tale follows Giselle (Amy Adams) a beautiful and plucky young lass who is waiting for her Prince Charming–or in this case Prince Edward (James Marsden)–so she can live happily ever after as his princess. But Edward's stepmother the evil sorceress Queen Narissa (Susan Sarandon) has no intention of giving up her throne. So before the happy couple can say "I do " Narissa banishes Giselle from her magical musical animated land by pushing her down a well thus sending her into the gritty reality of the streets of modern-day Manhattan. Shocked by this strange new environment that doesn't operate on magical bliss Giselle is now adrift in a chaotic world badly in need of enchantment. But when Giselle begins to fall for Manhattanite Robert (Patrick Dempsey) a divorce lawyer who has come to her aid she wonders: Can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world? By God she's going to find out. You might not think it would be tough to play an animated fairy-tale princess come to life in the real world but try playing it with a straight face. Adams not only makes you believe Giselle is a living breathing storybook character with her delicate mannerisms and unbearably sunny disposition but she does so without giving you a toothache. Yes Adams has to break into song on more than one occasion as princesses-in-making are wont to do but it's when Giselle starts to become more well human that the talented actress truly shines. For example Giselle has never known anger but when she loses it with Robert Adams plays it with such wonder and amazement it's infectious. Adams' Supporting Actress Oscar nod for her similarly cheery performance in Junebug wasn't a fluke; she could be looking at nomination No. 2. Trust me. The rest of the cast unfortunately pales in comparison but they serve their purpose. Dempsey is adequately bewildered and enchanted by this strange girl he picks up in the middle of the street while Marsden plays the prince with the right amount of cluelessness and bravado. Only Sarandon seems out of place as the evil queen. She looks great in the makeup and costumes but the veteran actress goes just a wee bit over the top. Not since 1992's Cool World has animated characters-turned-real people been so convincing. Of course Enchanted takes things onto a much more PG-friendly path with director Kevin Lima–having already directed Tarzan and The Goofy Movie–keying into that certain animated Disney mentality. Enchanted offers plenty of warm and fuzzy feelings–and should get your toes tapping during the original song and dance numbers. Giselle's theme song about finding one's true love as she dances through Central Park is one in particular you won't be able to get out of your head. I can see the Disney theme park attractions now. Yeah so Enchanted isn't terribly inspired or all that innovative; it's not very funny either. But after all the political violent and ultra-serious movies this holiday season its syrupy confection should provide some good old-fashioned family entertainment–and make you smile.


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For Sir Chris Hoy, the best moment of his career has been the Athens Olympics, when he was on the middle of the podium for the first time of his life to receive his gold medal.
Hoy is currently the favourite to take gold in his third consecutive Olympics, after becoming the first British Olympian in 100 years to take three gold medals - in Beijing in 2008.
But the Scot revealed to IBTimes UK that his proudest moment was the first time he became an Olympic gold medallist.
"The proudest moment of my career would be my first gold medal in Athens," he said.
"Just that feeling of stepping on the podium and being announced as Olympic champion for the first time. That was pretty special."
But winning in London this year, on his home turf and with a home crowd, would be even more special, says the 36-tyear-old.
"Yeah, that'd be right up there," he admitted. "The Olympics has a special place in my heart and in all athletes' hearts. That's the pinnacle, that's the one you want to win.
"Obviously, world championships, Commonwealth Games and World Cups, they're all important but to be Olympic champion is a huge deal and to do it in front of a home crowd would probably be the greatest of all."
Hoy, who is representing Gillette in its Great Start campaign which celebrates the work of coaches, competed at the London Velodrome for the first time in the 2012 World Cup in February. The cyclist stormed to gold in both his individual events, and won bronze in the team sprint.
And while the newly built stadium holds a somewhat modest 6,000 people, Hoy claims that the atmosphere is unbeatable when the crowd gets going.
He recalls: "It was incredible. It's not that much compared to a football stadium, and you think it can't be that loud but until you actually experience the noise of a 6,000-strong crowd going mental and screaming.
"It's a very acoustic sound at the Velodrome, with the low roof and seating that wraps around the track, it focuses all the noise and the attention into the centre of the arena.
"It's a really gladiatorial atmosphere - the London World Cup was probably one of the best races I've ever been to in that respect. I'm sure that at the Olympics the crowd will be even more into it and it'll be a hugely exciting experience."
Preparations for the Olympics will hit full speed for the cycling team, and Hoy believes that while Team GB have had a great start to the year, there is still room for improvement.
"We've had a really good season so far," he said. "We're still making some changes and there's been a new rider added to the team.
"We have the potential to get it all right on the big day but it's been an almost perfect season so far and we feel there's more to come as well so that's quite exciting."
This week Hoy's mother revealed that her son had owned a girl's bike as a child, but the Edinbrugh-born athlete was quick to dispel any rumours that it had any kind of feminine decorations.
He explained: "My first bike was a bike that they bought in a jumble sale, for £5, and my dad stripped it down and re-sprayed it and put bmx handlebars on it.
"It looked brilliant - to me that was a bmx bike. And after about three or four weeks I broke it doing a jump and snapped the frame.
"I didn't have a bike so before I got a new one my neighbours said 'oh, our daughters got a bike she hasn't used in a while, you can use it,' so yes, on loan I had a bike which was a girl's bike.
"It was just until I got my new bike. It wasn't like it had tassels on the handlebars though if that's what you're thinking."
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It's not everyday that someone wants to interview you for a article on your crafting.
But someone wanted to interview me! It's exciting!
Thank you Leslie for a wonderful interview and a great article!
I appreciate it so much!
Interview with Monica Bergeron, a renown quiller.
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It's not quilting, it's quilling! That's the first thing Monica Bergeron has had to tell many people who've never heard of her craft. She says she even has to spell it out to these poor souls, but she is quite amused by their troubled expressions and enjoys explaining to folks that quilling has nothing to do with fabric, needles or thread but instead is an art performed with strips of paper that are rolled into coils, glued, and then formed into shapes.
Many things amuse Monica Bergeron, and this joy carries forward into her art, her teachings, and her websites. Monica, from what I can see, is one of the nation's premier quillers. She modestly described winning a recent competition sponsored by Lark Books - a leader in craft publishing - for a quilled card she created. However, her focus doesn't appear to be on competitions. Instead, she likes to use her talents to encourage and teach others and to create new and unusual items.
Monica first began quilling at the age of seven when her mother gave her a kit to make a quilled owl. Monica took to that owl as a duck takes to water.
"I think my Mother thought it would take me quite awhile to finish the project as she was unfamiliar with quilling. Well it is a time consuming craft but that didn't keep me from taking my time. You couldn't find quilling paper then, you had to buy kits. So I would cut strips of paper and make my own creations. I would use magazines, construction paper and any other paper I could get my hands on. I was hooked on quilling from that day I received that owl kit until today."
Most quillers use their art for scrap booking or card making. However, Monica doesn't limit herself to scrap books or cards. She makes quilled earrings and pendants as well as quilled covered boxes. Quilled eggs are her favorite. "The possibilities on where you can use or place your quilling are endless," Monica states.
Monica teaches quilling classes and maintains four blogs. She started the blogs to provide tutorials to introduce people to quilling and other paper crafts. She has both printable and video tutorials.
What with maintaining the blogs and teaching the classes, how does she get any quilling done? It seems so meticulous! "I roll my coils while I'm watching TV and I have a plastic storage container that has compartments where I store all of my rolled coils. That way they are all ready when I'm ready to create a project. If I'm on the phone I'm rolling coils too, it's just a part of what I do almost daily." She could probably roll coils in her sleep at this point!
I asked Monica what she would say to someone who wanted to start quilling. "I would tell anyone who wants to start quilling to go in in with an open mind and to not get frustrated. It does take practice but if you look at the end result its well worth it," Monica replied.
Looking at her lovely work, I would have to agree, the end result is clearly worth it!
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The High Priestess
The Shining Queen, who rules the velvet night,
And nurtures nascent change, concealed from sight,
Transforms and changes, wheeling light and dark,
And seeks the Sun to sire the unseen spark.
The watery depths bring forth the Child of Light.
The High Priestess is also known as Persephone, Isis, the Corn Maiden and Artemis. She sits at the gate before the great Mystery, between the darkness and the light, and it is she who is the mediator of the passage into the depth of reality. She represents wisdom, serenity, knowledge and understanding, and is often described as the guardian of the unconscious. She sits in front of the thin veil of awareness, which is all that separates us from our inner selves. She knows the secret of how to access these realms, and represents spiritual enlightenment and inner illumination, divine knowledge and wisdom. She has a deep, intuitive understanding of the Universe and uses this knowledge to teach rather than to try to control others.
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To celebrate All Hallows' Eve, gloriously inventive London sextet The Vultures are releasing a free download of their spine-tingling new single 'Vlad' on October 31. A song that will raise the hairs on the back of your neck due to either its malevolence, its magnificence, or both, 'Vlad' should be a staple of every playlist this Halloween.
A beautiful composition of noirish intent, 'Vlad' – part-Hammer horror score, part post-punk masterclass – features a dazzling sweep of strings enveloping a resounding beat. Atop this Balkanesque blend drifts a deliciously dark vocal, evocative of Scott Walker making a blood oath with Bela Lugosi: "What's the point of dying/when you have no soul?" runs the lament for the Impaler; enough to make you shed a tear for the ruthless Romanian prince. 'Vlad' is accompanied by a comically discomfiting video, involving a gaggle of mutant muppets hosting a cookery show for the strong of stomach. Kitchen nightmares, indeed.
The Vultures are an evenly split male/female sextet whose members descended on the capital from five countries spanning three continents. Comprising three-part vocals, cello, violin, viola, bass and drums, the band bonded over a shared belief that rock'n'roll has become stiflingly dull. The Vultures are anything but, eschewing guitars, synths and digitalism in favour of intense in-the-flesh performance. Their songs' sinister subject matter may have lured a largely gothic fanbase (as well as such luminaries as Yoko Ono), but The Vultures' soundscape is sketched from a broad palette, encompassing influences from Bjork to Blondie, Serge Gainsbourg to The Pixies, and resulting in innovative and impassioned alternative song. Set to contaminate the public consciousness in 2015, The Vultures' debut album, 'Three Mothers Part 1', will be released on Ciao Ketchup Recordings in January.
'Vlad' will be officially released on 7" vinyl, as part of a double-A side with 'Cancer', on 8 December on Ciao Ketchup Recordings.
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I can't handle it anymore. I am probably going to commit seppuku the next time someone mentions Sex and the City. I have never despised a TV show as much as I do that awful awful show. Seriously, the hatred and vitriol and bile starts to build up in the back crevasses of my throat with the mere mention of it. I usually get so flustered with my hatred of the show that I cannot articulate exactly why I think it's so awful. I'm hoping that blogging it out will help. I can't promise anything though.
Someone hand me a steel umbrella because I'm being bombarded in the skull with these heavy, leaden cliches Sex and the City keep dropping on me and it hurts - I find it funny when fans of the show (female ones) talk about how it's "empowering" for women. Really? Because the idea that four women have nothing better to talk about than shoes or doing it seems pretty insulting and simplistic to me. So let me get this straight: the show's protagonist is constantly fretting about never finding "Mr. Right" and never being able to get married and have tiny little spoiled fashionista children? And I'm supposed to root for her or at the least, feel empathy for her? Let me guess, I bet the women all love chocolate too! But they worry about it going straight to their thighs! Oh my god, I hope they don't get depressed and sit in their house eating ice cream in their pajamas! Now granted, those cliches offend me first off as a person who hates deserts, ice cream and chocolate. But also, I don't like the idea that the "empowered" woman's main focus is on such material or matrimonial pursuits. Each of the four characters on the show are just two-dimensional facades of characters. So simplistic that's it's wholly insulting.
Ohhhhhh, no she di'nt say that! OMG! LOL! So daring! - Quite possibly the only thing more insulting that the cardboard cutout characters on SATC is how the viewer is supposed to be shocked and surprised by how frankly and openly the women discuss even the most graphic of details when it comes to their sex lives. Really? Because it just makes me think the characters are either not too familiar with the human anatomy (yo, check it, everyone's got the same general layout you have! it's wild!). Even more irritating is the idea that women are supposed to think that the characters are being "naughty" and "irreverant" when they discuss other people's shortcomings. Sorry, if I were writing that for the Sex and the City audience I would have written it in the much more "clever" formula of:
the characters are being naughty and irreverent when discussing other people's, erhm......ummm..."shortcomings"
and then I would insert some winking emoticon and we would all clink our cosmos in our martini glasses together and chortle because me made a double entendre! Me funny and borderline dirty! I swear, the writing on that show is like if you bought every "dirty" birthday greeting card at Spencer's Gifts and taped them together in a long string like some sort of bad blue humor Christmas tree garland. Don't get me wrong. The beauty of a finely-honed and flawlessly executed abortion joke is something to rival that of a Botticelli. So let's play a game. Which of the lines below is from SATC and which is from a tacky greeting card?
"Men cheat for the same reason that dogs lick their balls... because they can."
"I have low self-esteem, but I express it the healthy way... by eating a box of Double-Stuff Oreos."
"I'm a trisexual. I'll try anything once."
"If you're tired of New York you take a nap-a, you don't move to Napa"
(OMFG my brain just exploded that anyone allowed that sentence to escape from their brain and see the light of day)
Just kidding. They're all from SATC. Joke's on you! Well, I take that back. The joke's only on you if you actually see this ridiculous movie. Please make the hype die. Please make the skull-crushing PR go away. Go buy some shoes or something. Just don't give money to these awful writers and perpetuate this dumb stereotype.
PS - I meant to tell you that a Cosmo is not a martini at all. Because you see, a martini is a combination of gin/vodka and vermouth and sometimes olive juice while a Cosmo is just a fancy name and less white trash way of being able to order a Hand Grenade or Hurricane or Jolly Rancher-rita or Sex on the Bloomin' Onion Prep Station or whatever else comes in a souvenir glass you can take home with you when you eat a Red Lobster.
Sex and The City is Awful Part 2: When Friends Agree
And now I will present the chat that followed shortly after I posted this blog. The chat is between my friend Danny and I. And features the idea of feeding the entire cast of SATC into a wood chipper (amongst other ideas):
Old: wanna go see sex and the city with me tonight?
me: fuck you danny
fuck you hard
seriously i think my pulse is still elevated
btw, i added to it becacuse the first draft didn't allow me to fully express my anger
Old: seriously, you should go see it. if you do, i want to be there.
me: oh. my. god. i would totally live blog the shit out of that movie.
me: if you ever want to feel like taking a nap in the sweet embrace of the hereafter by your own hand, by all means go straight to sexandthecityquotes.com
Old: i wonder if samantha makes a penis joke in the movie...
me: OMG!
i'm crashing my ROFLcopter into a trade center as we speak
Old: someone needs to remind her that she was fucking "lassie" from porky's.
me: ummmmmm one better, she was the mannequin that got fed into a paper shredder in mannequin
which was my all time fave movie when i was 5
used to sing the starship "nothing's gonna stop us now" into a hairbrush daily
Old: if this films ends with her being fed into a wood chipper, it's worth it.
me: i want three sequels where each one ends with another one being put in the wood chipper until they are all just a pile of slut stew meat
Old: please add more to your blog. i'm grooving on the wood chipper theme....
me: i really think i should live blog it. go see it and be able to cite factual evidence.
Old: yep. just let me know.
me: also OMG at the inwood all the refreshements including the popcorn is going to be pink tonight!
Old: unless you need to be alone.
me: not kidding
Old: JESUS
Old: big buck hunter: sex and the city version.
me: oh my god. someone please make sure to scotchguard EVERYTHING in auditorium 1
Old: big cunt hunter.
me: like a pair of faded grey velvet drapes
Old: wow. you didn'
yes ...
you did...
me: just sort of ragged and in desperate need of hemming. just sort of frayed and worn thin but with an unmistakable chain smoker sort of smell
Old: you = #1
me: I WIN!
the world loses
Old: can you imagine the hen pen parties who are going attend this thing in droves? all dressed up and shit?
me: the gallo chardonnay will flow down the streets like the blood of a thousand saggy dead cougars
Old: gallo. lol.
me: i want to dress up as a suicide bomber and go see it
Old: i really want to do see it now...
people watching might be the allure
me: i'm going to wear a burqua and issue a fatwa against the movie then take out as many single moms as i can
Old: allright. what time am i picking you up?


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If we were you, Peggy, we wouldn't get too comfortable in Rayna's house — especially now that you've ticked off her dad.
In this clip from Wednesday's Nashville (ABC, 10/9c), Lamar puts Teddy's paramour in an awkward position: Sway the new mayor's support back to the original stadium plan or Teddy will find out exactly who leaked the dirt about his divorce to the tabloids. (We'll give you one doe-eyed guess…)
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Press PLAY to watch Peggy get blackmailed, then scroll down for another glimpse at the episode.
Meanwhile, at the tour stop in New York, Rayna's daughters go all fangirl when Juliette bestows the ultimate praise on Maddie. Press PLAY to watch the adulation unfold.
Now hit the comments: Did you suspect Peggy was behind the tabloid story? And isn't Juliette kinda cute with her preteen groupies?Follow @kimroots


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Merry Christmas!
This Christmas we send tidings of joy to you and your family, for we join with you in celebrating the birth of our Savior who came to give life, and life abundantly.
But we also send a merry reminder of how strange we really are.
Think about it. We believe a Holy, All-Powerful God had a virgin give birth to His only Son who became a carpenter and then was executed on a Roman cross in order for us to obtain salvation--and then came back to life. That's strange!
Many of us on the Minnesota Family Council team have been reading Russell Moore's Onward. He puts it this way:
[The cultural today] gives the church an opportunity to do what Jesus called us to do with our marriages in the first place: to serve as a light in a dark place. Permanent, stable marriages with families with both a mother and a father may well make us seem freakish in 21st-century culture.
We should not fear that. We believe stranger things than that. We believe a previously dead man is alive, and will show up in the Eastern skies on a horse. We believe that the gospel can forgive sinners like us and make us sons and daughters. Let's embrace the sort of freakishness that saves.
Our culture desperately needs the Life found only in Jesus Christ, and our culture will be attracted to Jesus Christ not because He is "safe" or trumpets "family values" or because His followers vote a certain way.
They are attracted to Jesus Christ because of the strangeness of the Gospel.
So join us as we embrace and live out this strange Gospel that saves lives, restores hope, and brings abundant life.
This strange Gospel is at the center of all we do.
- The Gospel is why we believe in and advocate for marriage as God designed it, between a man and a woman, because it reflects a picture of Christ's relationship with His Bride the Church.
- The Gospel is why we believe that every life is worthy of dignity and respect, because Christ died for all, and that no one has the right to abort, murder, or kill by assisted suicide another.
- The Gospel is why we believe that God designed us in His image, male and female, and that attempts to thwart His design are not just harmful to society, but a direct affront to a Holy God.
- The Gospel is why we advocate for godly leaders who will reflect godly values and enact godly policy--because that is truly loving your neighbor.
- And it is for the sake of the Gospel that we protect and advocate for the right to freely live out our faith, so that all may come to know our strange & holy Savior.
Thank you for being strange with us, and we pray that you and your family rejoice in how strange it is that our Savior came to us from Glory, through a virgin, to a feeding trough this Christmas season. Only our wondrous God could've ordained such a gift! We also pray that your "strangeness" will impact many others during the Christmas season and throughout the new year.
May God bless you and keep us "strange,"
John Helmberger, CEO
Minnesota Family Council


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I loved the different kinds pizza that we had in Italy, on our honeymoon.
Simple. Delicious. So tasty. Italy. How I miss thee.
Lately I've been obsessed with making my own pizza at home. I love making the dough from scratch, peeking to see if it has risen, grabbing my rolling pin to roll it out (I love my rolling pin, it makes me giddy). This weekend I wanted to recreate the only frozen pizza that I will buy, on occasion. Target's Archer Farms Spinach & Goat Cheese pizza. It's so good, we dream about it and the globs of goat cheese...
This is my version. I hope you try it!
For the dough
Source: How Sweet It Is
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon dry active yeast
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup lukewarm water
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon honey
Combine flour, salt and yeast in a large bowl. Add water, honey and oil, mixing with a spoon to form into a ball. Continue mixing with your hands and kneed for about 60 seconds. Lightly oil bowl and add dough back in. Cover and let rise for 2-3 hours.
After 2-3 hours, remove from bowl and punch down. Roll back into ball and let sit for 30 minutes.
Lay on lightly floured surface and roll very thin. Top with toppings and bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes.
For the Toppings
3/4 cup tomato or pizza sauce (I pureed a can of whole tomatoes)
1/2 teaspoon oregano
1/2 teaspoon basil
1/2 garlic powder 1 cup mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup Pecorino Romano cheese
7-8 slices of goat cheese, plus more for crumbling
6-7 cherry tomatoes, halved
1/4 cup defrosted spinach
salt and pepper
olive oil
After rolling out your dough, transfer it to your pizza stone or baking dish. Make sure to flour or use non-stick spray on your pan. Drizzle a small amount of olive oil over the dough and spread a thin layer of tomato sauce on top. Sprinkle the oregano, basil, and garlic powder over the sauce, followed by the cheeses. Place the slices of goat cheese on top. Add the tomatoes and defrosted spinach, sprinkle salt and pepper to taste. Bake at 375 for 25-30 minutes.
What's pizza night like in your house?


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Richard Veryard
Richard Veryard (born 1955) is a British computer scientist, author and business consultant, known for his work on service-oriented architecture and the service-based business.[1]
Veryard attended Sevenoaks School from 1966 to 1972, where he attended classes by Gerd Sommerhoff. He received his MA Mathematics and Philosophy from Merton College, Oxford, in 1976, and his MSc Computing Science at the Imperial College London in 1977. Later he also received his MBA from the Open University in 1992.[2]
Veryard started his career in industry working for Data Logic Limited, Middlesex, UK, where he first developed and taught public data analysis courses. After years of practical experience in this field, he wrote his first book about this topic in 1984. In 1987 he became an IT consultant with James Martin Associates (JMA), specializing in the practical problems of planning and implementing information systems. After the European operation of JMA were acquired by the Texas Instruments, he became a Principal Consultant in the Software Business and a member of Group Technical Staff. At Texas Instruments he was one of the developers of IE\Q, a proprietary methodology for software quality management.[3] Since 1997 he is freelance consultant under the flag of Veryard Projects Ltd. Since 2006 he is a principal consultant at CBDi, a research forum for service-oriented architecture and engineering.[2]
Veryard has taught courses at City University, Brunel University and the Copenhagen Business School, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London.[2]
Pragmatic data analysis, 1984
In "Pragmatic data analysis" (1984) Veryard presented data analysis as a branch of systems analysis, which shared the same principles. His position on data modelling would appear to be implicit in the term data analysis.[4] He presented two philosophical attitudes towards data modeling, which he called "semantic relativism and semantic absolutism. According to the absolutist way of thinking, there is only one correct or ideal way of modeling anything: each object in the real world must be represented by a particular construct. Semantic relativism, on the other hand, believe that most things in the real world can be modeled in many different ways, using basic constructs".[5][6]
Veryard further examined the problem of the discovery of classes and objects. This may proceed from a number of different models, that capture the requirements of the problem domain. Abbott (1983) proposed that each search starts from a textual description of the problem. Ward (1989) and Seidewitz and Stark (1986) suggested starting from the products of structured analysis, namely data flow diagrams. Veryard examined the same problem from the perspective of data modeling.[7]
Veryard made the point, that the modeler has some choice in whether to use an entity, relationship or attribute to represent a given universe of discourse (UoD) concept.[8] This justifies a common position, that "data models of the same UoD may differ, but the differences are the result of shortcomings in the data modeling language. The argument is that data modeling is essentially descriptive, but that current data modeling languages allow some choice in how the description is documented."[8]
Economics of Information Systems and Software, 1991
In the 1991 book "The Economics of Information Systems and Software", edited by Veryard, experts from various areas, including business administration, project management, software engineering and economics, contribute their expertise concerning the economics of systems software, including evaluation of benefits, types of information and project costs and management.[9]
Information Coordination, 1993
In the 1993 book "Information Coordination: The Management of Information Models, Systems, and Organizations" Veryard gives a snapshot of the state of the art around these subjects. "Maximizing the value of corporate data depends upon being able to manage information models both within and between businesses. A centralized information model is not appropriate for many organizations," Veryard explains.[10]
His book "takes the approach that multiple information models exist and the differences and links between them have to be managed. Coordination is currently an area of both intensive theoretical speculation and of practical research and development. Information Coordination explains practical guidelines for information management, both from on-going research and from recent field experience with CASE tools and methods".[10][11]
Enterprise Modelling Methodology
In the 1990s Veryard worked together in an Enterprise Computing Project and developed a version of Business Relationship Modelling specifically for Open Distributed Processing, under the name Enterprise Modelling Methodology/Open Distributed Processing (EMM/ODP).[12][13] EMM/ODP proposed some new techniques and method extensions for enterprise modelling for distributed systems.
Component-based business
In 2001 Veryard introduced the concept of "component-based business". Component-based business relates to new business architectures, in which "an enterprise is configured as a dynamic network of components providing business services to one another".[14] In the new millennium there has been "a phenomenal growth in this kind of new autonomous business services, fuelled largely by the internet and e-business".[14]
The concept of "component-Based Business constitutes a radical challenge to traditional notions of strategy, planning, requirements, quality and change, and tries to help you improve how you think through the practical difficulties and opportunities of the component-based business". This applied to both hardware and software, and to business relationships.[14]
Veryard's subsequent work on organic planning for SOA has been referenced by a number of authors.[15]
Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture, 2013
In "Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture" Veryard describes business architecture as "a practice (or collection of practices) associated with business performance, strategy and structure."[16]
And furthermore about the main task of the business architect:
The business architect is expected to take responsibility for some set of stakeholder concerns, in collaboration with a number of related business and architectural roles, including
- • business strategy planning, business change management, business analysis, etc.
- • business operations, business excellence, etc.
- • enterprise architecture, solution architecture, data/process architecture, systems architecture, etc.
Conventional accounts of business architecture are often framed within a particular agenda - especially an IT-driven agenda. Many enterprise architecture frameworks follow this agenda, and this affects how they describe business architecture and its relationship with other architectures (such as IT systems architecture). Indeed, business architecture is often seen as little more than a precursor to system architecture - an attempt to derive systems requirements.[16]
- Richard Veryard. Pragmatic data analysis. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1984.
- Richard Veryard (ed.). The Economics of information systems and software. Oxford : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991.
- Richard Veryard. Information modelling : practical guidance. New York : Prentice Hall, 1992.
- Richard Veryard. Information coordination : the management of information models, systems, and organizations. New York : Prentice Hall, 1994.
- Richard Veryard. Component-based business : plug and play. London : Springer, 2001.
- Richard Veryard. Six Viewpoints of Business Architecture, 2013
Articles, papers, book chapters, etc., a selection:[17]
- Richard Veryard (2000). Reasoning about systems and their properties. In: Peter Henderson (ed) Systems Engineering for Business Process Change, Springer-Verlag, 2002* Richard Veryard. "Business-Driven SOA," CBDI Journal, May–June 2004
- ↑ Richard Veryard Accessed 17 Dec 2008.
- 1 2 3 Richard Veryard Principal Consultant at CBDI. Accessed 17 Dec 2008.
- ↑ Sandro Bologna, Giacomo Bucci (ed.) (1996) Achieving Quality in Software: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software. Chapman & Hall. p.425.
- ↑ Graeme Simsion (2001). Data Modeling. p.26.
- ↑ Richard Veryard (1984). Pragmatic data analysis. Oxford : Blackwell Scientific Publications. p.7
- ↑ Mehdi Khosrowpour (1999) (ed.). Managing Information Technology Resources in Organizations in the Next Millennium. Page 30.
- ↑ Grady Booch (1991). Object Oriented Design with Applications: with applications. Benjamin/Cummings Pub. Co., 1991. p.151.
- 1 2 Graeme Simsion (2007) Data Modeling: Theory and Practice. p. 78.
- ↑ Richard Veryard (1991). The Economics of Information Systems and Software. Butterworth-Heinemann.
- 1 2 Richard Veryard (1993). Information Coordination: The Management of Information Models, Systems, and Organizations. Prentice Hall.
- ↑ Ayers, Michael (January 1996). "Critical review of Information Coordination". ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 21 (1). Retrieved 11 June 2010.
- ↑ Richard Veryard and Ian G. MacDonald (1994). "EMM/ODP: A methodology for federated and distributed systems". In: Methods and Associated Tools for the Information Systems Life Cycle, Proceedings of the IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference on Methods and Associated Tools for the Information Systems Life Cycle, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 26–28 September 1994. Alex A. Verrijn-Stuart and T. William Olle (ed.) Elsevier IFIP Transactions. pp.241-273.
- ↑ Business relationship modelling Veryard Projects. Accessed 16 dec 2008.
- 1 2 3 Richard Veryard (2001). Component-based Business: Plug and Play. Springer.
- ↑ Michael Bell, SOA Modeling Patterns for Service-Oriented Discovery and Analysis (Wiley 2010); Tony Bidgood, ArchiMate: A Standard for Enterprise System Modelling (CBDI Journal, August 2008); Marc Lankhorst et al, Enterprise Architecture at Work (Springer, 2005)
- 1 2 Veryard (2013, p. i)
- ↑ Richard Veryard List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.
External links
- Richard Veryard Home page
- List of recent publications by Richard Veryard.


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Your Basic Guide to Fats and Oils
Fats and oils are hot topics these days. If you grew up in my generation (70's child), vegetable oils were good and butter and animal fats were bad. End of story. Government and mass food industry supported guidelines warned us that any animal derived fat was a no-no and low fat and fat-free were the way to go. The truth behind this propaganda, greed-fueled and unsubstantiated by science, became public information only a few years ago. So now what? What kinds of fats and oils should we be ingesting?
It's a complicated story. We learned a lot by reading Cate Shanahan's book, Deep Nutrition. It is chock full of information - and definitely a dense read. Here is a summary of what we learned.
1. Why are vegetable/seed oils so toxic?
Vegetable oils are loaded with polyunsaturated fatty acids, also known as PUFAs. These PUFAs are highly unstable. When exposed to heat and chemical stress they rapidly breakdown and transforming into free-radical promoting molecules, potentially causing major cell damage. What do I mean by cell damage?
These oils are inflammatory, irritating the gut lining and impairing digestion by reducing the ability to produce stomach acid.
They create oxidative stress in the body, leading to neuro degenerative diseases. When heated, these oils exponentially amplify naturally occurring oxidation, so that the body has a hard time fighting it. They also limit nitric oxide signaling which slows brain functioning.
Vegetable and seed oils can cause gene mutation. There are studies linking them to autism and organ malfunction.
Having a problem with circulation? It could be due to vegetable and seed oils. They can cause cardiovascular dysfunction, erectile dysfunction (yikes), migraines and also stifles the body's ability to recover from brain injury.
In a nut shell, they are aging accelerators. I don't know anyone who wants that!
Increases genomic instability (causing gene mutation).
2. Does it matter how the oils are processed? What if they are expeller-pressed?
Yes, it matters, but when it comes to vegetable and seed oils, expeller-pressed does not mean safe. Expeller pressed suggests "gently extracted", but in reality, it only means the oils were first mechanically extracted. The next part of the process usually involves refining, bleaching and deodorizing, rendering the oil oxidized.
3. What the heck should we eat and cook with and what should we avoid?
Here's a short list taken right off of Dr. Shanahan's website.
And lastly, some tips!
- Look for extra virgin, cold pressed oils. For olive oils, specifically made in California, look for the Califonia Olive Oil Council Seal.
- For extra virgin olive oil, look for a harvest date. They are best used within 18 months from harvest.
- When cooking with high heat, stir frequently.
- Also for high heat cooking, certain oil combinations are ideal. Butter and olive oil protect each other. Sesame and peanut oil are good combinations as well. Sesame oil is high in PUFA's but is also incredibly packed with antioxidants. Peanut oil protects the PUFA's from oxidizing.
At our signature retreats, we show you EXACTLY how to put all of this together and use some of the oils suggested. Join us in beautiful Mallorca in September and experience the taste of authentic, traditionally made Spanish olive oil. We will be visiting a biodynamic extra virgin olive oil mill!
As always, please reach out with questions and comments!


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I was in a meeting today discussing different aspects of the human being..this all relates to an adult art class I teach. The artwork that we do is directly related to the conversations we have surrounding their kids, human development, how we grow (or not) in the years as parents...etc. etc. etc. It is a big and never ending conversation.
In the meeting we were talking about what we are focusing on right now..and what I said, without really thinking about it first was...that all I really care about right now is helping people feel beautiful.
And that hit me...wow, if all I ever do is help people find their beauty, and then they actually feel beautiful...that is a good result. So the question is what do we focus on? How is that made manifest in our worlds, what is the result?
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Two North Carolina men were exonerated earlier this week due to new DNA evidence after spending 30 years in prison, where one was awaiting the death penalty, highlighting the reality that innocent men can end up on death row.
Back in 1994 conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia voted against a petition asking the Supreme Court to review the case of one of those men, Henry McCollum. That man became North Carolina's longest-serving death row inmate after he and his half-brother Leon Brown were convicted of raping and killing an 11-year-old girl.
This news brings to mind Scalia's insistence that the Supreme Court has never ruled the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who later convinces a court of his innocence, as Slate points out.
"This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent," Scalia wrote in a 2009 dissent of the Court's order for a federal trial court in Georgia to consider the case of death row inmate Troy Davis. "Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged 'actual innocence' is constitutionally cognizable."
The legal definition of "actual innocence" is the absence of facts required to convict someone based on a criminal statute, according to the Legal Information Institute. Defendants appealing convictions seek to prove actual innocence by submitting new evidence that reverses the court's confidence in a past verdict.
The opinion is technically right, Dahlia Lithwick points out in Newsweek. "As a constitutional matter, Scalia's assertion is not wrong," she wrote. "The court has never found a constitutional right for the actually innocent to be free from execution."
However, Vincent Rossmeier noted in Salon,"His opinion suggested a certain callousness on the question of whether the courts should care if the state puts an innocent man to death, but he was right when he said the Supreme Court has never ruled whether an individual's 'actual innocence' necessitates the involvement of a federal court in a state conviction."
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote a 1993 decision that was in line with Scalia's comment that the Supreme Court has never made such a ruling.
But Rehnquist added that the execution of a defendant who has made a particularly strong demonstration of innocence could conceivably be considered unconstitutional. "We may assume ... that in a capital case a truly persuasive demonstration of 'actual innocence' made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional and warrant federal habeas relief if there were no state avenue open to process such a claim," Rehnquist wrote in that decision.
Scalia has accepted the fact that the justice system is not perfect, and innocent people will be convicted. "Like other human institutions, courts and juries are not perfect," he wrote in a 2006 opinion. "One cannot have a system of criminal punishment without accepting the possibility that someone will be punished mistakenly."


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2 | Hire that woman
In her eight years running the school's library, Overton, 40, has learned a lot about dealing with teenagers growing up in one of the poorest urban areas of the country. She is a small woman – so short that she can barely be seen behind the counter in the library. She wears her blond hair cropped short and her mouth is lined at the corners, forming what looks like a permanent smirk. Her language is casual; even strangers are often called sometimes called "dude." But her approach to her work is serious. She reads the books that students check out the most, thin ones with big letters written for young adults and describes her favorites as "cool." If there's a book that Overton really likes, she talks about it without stopping for breath. And she can be critical of popular work that she feels has little value, like the vampire trend in young adult literature, which she considers just plain "boring."
On Overton's right wrist is a colorful tattoo that could be easily mistaken for a bracelet. The tattoo was inspired by the children's novel "The Little Prince." It depicts in cartoon, on one side of her wrist, what looks to be a hat. Only when she shows her palm can one see that it is actually an elephant, swallowed whole by a boa constrictor. Overton said the dual images, hidden on one side and exposed on the other, were used by a character in the book to determine whether those around him had the imagination of a child or the pragmatism of an adult.
Principal Anna Hall encouraged Overton to apply to be the school's librarian eight years ago when Hall was still a teacher. "We stole Kelly from the public library," said Hall. "In our very first year, she came to present at a book talk. She was working at the Mott Haven library not very far away and she was so good that I left my classroom to talk to the [then] principal and said 'You need to hire that woman'." The decision turned out to be critical to the future of the school.


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Laos has been influenced and colonize deciding what is "authentic" depends a gread deal on how far back you wish to place the starting line.
From the use of mayonnaise-style sauce in a Luang Praburg salad through bagets and coffee, the colonial French influence is clear to see (this applies to Laos but not Isaan which was never colonised), but the creamy and complex sauces, hallmarks of French cuisine, are not integrated into Lao cuisine. Noodle soup, (pho), popular as breakfast or snack, clearly comes from Vietnam and even carries the same name.
The us of MSG and the introduction of stir-frying techniques have come from China, while chillies, dill and tomatoes were all introduced from other countries in the seventeenth century.
Lao cuisine varies from region to region. Some areas favour certain flavours more than others. In the south, padaek features heavily in almost every dish, while in the north it is popular but not used so intensely. Steamed rice is more popular in the north, and among the Hill Tribes, where dishes bear some of the hallmarks of Chinese cuisine, being more liquid in nature. Othen/vise, country people generally eat exclusively sticky rice.
Over the past ten years, with the growth of tourism and the opening up of Laos to the outside world, Lao food has taken on different emphases. Greater use of noodles and the introduction of sugar into the diet are noticeable features. Stir-frying is more popular and this and the greater use of coconut milk means that in towns, people eat both sticky and white rice to accompany their food.
Cooking is traditionally performed over a clay and tin brazier, with charcoal as fuel. Ovens have never been a part of the traditional Lao kitchen. Consequently many foods are grilled or barbecued, and have a pleasant smoky flavour. Steaming foods is also common, and the use of banana leaves as wrapping in both cooking methods ensures the food's moisture content is retained.
The wok is now a common kitchen implement following the introduction of Chinese cooking techniques. A deep implement, following the introduction of Chinese cooking techniques. A deep mortar and pestle of fired clay (shaped without the flat base) is an essential item in the Lao kitchen. While food processors and blenders are common in the West, the pounding motion of the Lao utensil releases flavours in a way the processor cannot match. Wooden versions, or mortars with flat bases are better suited to grinding and can't achieve the same effect.
Now that you have an understanding of and experience in the cuisine of Laos, we hope you will enjoy recreating your food experiences in your home. The following list of ingredients and recipes will allow you to introduce this fascinating fresh cuisine family and friends. Bon Appetit!
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In the morning, we order bagels and coffee.
Leaving this city means finding another
with places that will bring breakfast
to the apartment on a Saturday morning
where the only thing I can do is watch
Spring happen outside my open window.
Of all the places I've ever lived, this is the one
I understand the least. But I don't really need to
to be here, so maybe that's why I stay.
In the same way I exit parties, I imagine one day,
just waking up and then going without a word,
as Spring happens, outside.