Sunday, December 14, 2003


killer brownies

i'm always on the look out for the ultimate killer brownie recipe. while this cappucino cream cheese brownie gig looks ok, i don't think it's for me. . .but it might be for you.

as always, i find supposed "food writer" amanda hesser of the ny times deeply amusing. she lives down the street from me now, which is an interesting exercise in yoga; not only do i get to practice indifference to her bad writing in the paper, but i also get to ignore her in the subway elevator.

fortunately for amanda, since i have seen her in the morning in aforementioned elevator, i also can overlook her utter inability to dress herself. . .

thus i am now supremely indifferent to her labeling the nespresso machine in today's times magazine as a great idea for 2003 (log your own bad self and think of bruce: saute wednesday). she goes on about the ease, the no-muss no-fussiness of it all, the ugly po-mo style of the machine, its popularity. . .and nowhere does she mention the taste of the coffee it supposedly makes!

(recent rant on the tasteless of said coffee from pre-packed pods and capsules here.)

but that's so the new york times. style over all; soon the paper will just be a tony print version of entertainment weekly with some poorly researched foreign stories tossed in as a sop to intellectual and "hard news" pretension.

i shouldn't be so bleak: deborah baldwin is a food writer who understands that food is about more than narcissistic style; it reveals culture and soul, but oh, you have to be able to cook a bit too.

i say, less hesser, more baldwin!

finally, playing with le nez du café from yesterday. it just makes me appreciate more deeply the subtle factors of the scaa coffee flavor wheel. i'm always surprised when members of alt.coffee and the scaa consumer member program reject this useful tool.

i once described it as a doorway into a deeper relationship with what is beautiful in coffee; but now i would say it is more like a warm pool into which you can plunge your entire body without regret. . .you do not pass through coffee and its flavors.

rather, you bathe in them and can come really come away refreshed.

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