Marcella Hazan’s white bean soup with parsley and garlic …. If there’s a better soup, I don’t know what it is.
Marcella Hazan’s white bean soup with parsley and garlic …. If there’s a better soup, I don’t know what it is.
“I take the thing I’m disgusted with, imagine the opposite, and push that out into the world.” - Austin Kleon 💬 📝
Reading: The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. Lately I’ve started finally reading a lot of books/authors I’ve been meaning to read for decades. 📚
“Nobody has any zeal about arithmetic. It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.” – Bertrand Russell
We finally watched The Meyerowitz Stories this evening and, as has happened with every Noah Baumbach film I’ve seen, I’m left wondering why I waited so long to experience it. 🍿
“There is little unfairness in a colony of ants, but there is also little freedom.” – Madeleine L’Engle
We are halfway through the final season of The Man in the High Castle and there is much about it that I find disturbing, particularly in the fifth episode, which we watched last night. (Disturbing does not mean bad; it just means … disturbing.) 📺
I heard myself describe something as “more art than science” and realized I was doing both of those things a disservice.
“I’ve caught belief like a disease. I’ve fallen into belief like I fell in love.” - Greene, TEOTA 📚
Currently reading The End of the Affair and kind of stunned (and more than a little embarrassed) that it took me 50 years to start reading Graham Greene. 📚
The walls above Girona.
Earlier this month, I turned 50 in Barcelona. It was my first time in Spain. Among many other things, I discovered what anchovies actually can be, and they are amazing.