Thursday, December 12, 2002


more cookies; humor is a must

at holiday time everyone wants more cookie recipes. this flourless chocolate cookie recipe certainly caught my eye.

when making it, however, be sure to use an intense, high-percentage, chocolate, or else you might find the results lack a strong chocolate flavor. i hope to try making it myself in the next week or two. . .if you beat me to it, dear readers, tell me how it went.

finally, whenever you lose your sense of humor about yourself, you are ripe for satire. in fact, you deserve it. a definite feeling of fun should be a required element in yoga, to my mind.

in this vein, i read the account of a beginning yoga student at an ashtangi holiday party and laughed a lot. even tho' the author takes some cheap shots, and is writing for a horrid magazine i couldn't agree with less, i still have to say that i have met yoga students and teachers too much as described. that dread kernel-of-truth thing.

before i give the link, however, i have to note that this is british humor, and not family reading. consider yourself warned. however, i can't help but remark that the author clearly intended to be comic in the british manner by giving the hostess a cheap, touristy brand of hard cider. like bringing a bottle of ripple or thunderbird to a fancy dinner party. . .and i do like the phrase "out of that door like a long dog."

fans of real british cider and perry -- which tends to be a local, hand-craft product -- take their stuff very seriously, just as lovers of fine microbrews do. they are slow people.

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