July 19, 2018 at 6:22 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Lists, Places, Recommended)
Tags: art, desserts, exhibits, happiness, museums, praise, restaurants, San Francisco
Self has seen it three times.
The Magritte-themed food in the fifth floor café is so much fun:
In the adjoining sculpture garden, you can pose in front of this sign and you will look fabulous and so ‘San Francisco’:
Andrew and Jennie, 14 July 2018
There is a great, really great interactive portion at the end: Raise your arms, and YOU’RE the Magritte!
More later. Stay tuned!
June 19, 2018 at 3:09 pm (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Links, Lists, plans, Recommended)
Tags: Anthony Bourdain, causes, Events, restaurants, San Francisco
In honor of World Refugee Day, June 20, San Francisco this week is hosting the Refugee Food Festival.
The festival kicks off today in one of Anthony Bourdain’s favorite San Francisco restaurants, the Hog Island Oyster Company in the Ferry Building.
The chef, Pa Wah, from Burma, “spent the majority of her life in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand.”
The other participating chefs are from Bhutan, Iraq, Myanmar, Senegal, and Syria.
More information on the festival, here.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
June 18, 2018 at 5:55 pm (Food and Drink, Lists, Recommended)
Tags: causes, Events, Mondays, restaurants, San Francisco
In honor of World Refugee Day on 20 June (Ironically, the same day a judge will hear the case of the U.S. Dept of Justice against the State of California), this week (Tuesday, 19 June through Saturday, 23 June) San Francisco hosts the Refugee Food Festival.
Selected San Francisco restaurants will open their kitchens to refugee chefs.
For more information: refugeefoodfestival.com
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 31, 2017 at 11:27 am (Artists and Writers, destinations, Food and Drink, Plays, postaday, Recommended, Traveling)
Tags: art, British Museum, desserts, England, exhibits, indulgences, London, museums, performances, postaday, postaweek, praise, restaurants, Wordpress
So many grrreat examples of ROUNDED, everywhere self looks.
First, this from the Scythian Exhibit at the British Museum (The special exhibit is 16.50 GBP, but the rest of the museum is free. This beauty is just standing in the lobby, next to a concession stand):
The Scythians, self learned from the exhibit, were nomads who roamed the wild Russian steppes. Everything of value to them was either made of fur or minted of gold. There are the most intricate golden belt buckles, as well as gold appliqués on thick fur coats.
Moving on:
Last night, self watched a play at The Gielgud: The Ferryman. The play was three hours and 15 minutes, one proper intermission, and a three-minute break to allow the audience to get up and stretch. During the first intermission, they sold Haagen Dasz caramel salt ice cream bars in the stalls (3 GBP)
Searing. The women actors were amazing. As was a live baby, who got onstage to get a diaper change and whose part was very nicely done (Baby never cried)
Display Window, Caffé Concerto, Across from the Gielgud on Shaftesbury Ave.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
October 14, 2017 at 5:53 am (Artists and Writers, Dearest Mum, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Pianos, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: art, Bath, England, Fridays, memories, museums, New York, Paris, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
Very interesting challenge from The Daily Post this week!
SCALE
Photography ” . . . is all about perspective, where and how you place other objects in the frame . . . ” — Erica V., The Daily Post
Here are some examples of SCALE: (1) at the Louvre, in front of the Mona Lisa (2) in Bath’s Royal Crescent, the entrance to Royal Crescent # 1 and (3) in New York’s Russian Tea Room, next to Carnegie Hall. Self’s first trip to New York City was with Dearest Mum, who once played at Carnegie Hall. This September, she took Dearest Mum, who’s now past 80, for lunch at the Russian Tea Room. We had the best time.
The Louvre, May 2017
Royal Crescent No. 1 (Royal Crescent Museum), Bath
The Russian Tea Room, 57th St., New York City (Next to Carnegie Hall): Dearest Mum took self here, her first time in New York City, decades ago. The place hasn’t changed a bit.
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
September 29, 2017 at 3:59 pm (Books, destinations, Food and Drink, Places, Recommended)
Tags: fiction, Fridays, novel, Paris, restaurants, translation
Paris, 201x:
All of a sudden, as I stood in front of the Rapid ‘Jus (whose concoctions kept getting more and more complicated: they had coconut-passion fruit-guava, mango-lychee-guarana, and a dozen other flavors, all with bewildering vitamin ingredients), I thought of Bruno Deslandes.
Stay tuned.
August 24, 2017 at 5:35 pm (Artists and Writers, Books, destinations, Family, Food and Drink, Links, Personal Bookshelf, Places, postaday, Recommended, Women Writers)
Tags: Annaghmakerrig, artists residency, breakfast, California, Ireland, poetry, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, summer, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Wordpress
Self decided to post again on this week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge, CORNERS.
Books and waffles and furniture.
Jenny Lewis, poet, is a friend. The Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig is self’s equivalent of Paradise.
Le Pain Quotidien, Claremont, California: July 2017
Pasadena Moderne: July 2017
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 12, 2017 at 2:13 am (Food and Drink, Links, Places, postaday, Surprises, Traveling)
Tags: California, desserts, discoveries, indulgences, postaday, postaweek, restaurants, Wordpress
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge is ELEMENTAL. Erica V. on The Daily Post describes her response to experiencing the American Southwest for the first time: “I was both confused and in awe of this extreme landscape.”
Last month, self was in Pasadena. Her first visit south in three years. She Airbnb’ed in the Pasadena hills. The house was at the very top of a winding driveway. Behind it was nothing but steep, scrubby hillside.
Just inside the front door was a rock, a very heavy rock. Self should have asked her host about it, but she never did:
There was a chameleon that kept trying to get into self’s unit. It was a beautiful thing. Every time self left the apartment, the chameleon would be clinging to the screen door. One day, self decided to photograph it:
Finally, a slice of green matcha tiramisu from Urth Caffé, in downtown Pasadena, a block from legendary bookstore Vroman’s. It looks for all the world like moss!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 5, 2017 at 3:16 pm (Places, Traveling, Women Writers, Writing)
Tags: art, inspiration, London, museum, restaurants, short story, work-in-progress, writing process
Setting, The Wallace Collection, London:
Fragonard’s “The Swing” Originally, the lady was to have been pushed by a bishop. But this was evidently too much. So, instead, we have an elderly gent sitting on a stone balustrade, in the shadows behind.
Later, self took her notes and added this sentence (while having lunch at Chez Nous, 22 Hanway Street):
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.
August 2, 2017 at 5:29 pm (Artists and Writers, Family, Food and Drink, Links, postaday, Surprises)
Tags: art, California, discoveries, exhibits, memories, museum, nostalgia, restaurants, San Francisco
This week’s Daily Post Photo Challenge (posted every Wednesday) is TEXTURE.
Photos have “a tactile element, too,” Ben Huberman says. As an example, he provides his shot of “tangles of seaweed . . . across the wet sand at low tide.”
Here are three of self’s own examples of texture:
Maker identified only as “French, Madame Georgette”
Le Pain Quotidien, Claremont, CA: July 2017
Plastic Frog! Found in Son’s Room in Redwood City, CA: This used to be one of his favorite toys.
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