Monday, October 11, 2004


i think new york, sorry

several readers have kindly sent me various versions of the "punk rock yoga" story, which i believe originated in seattle before it went out over the a.p. wire.

sounds like a fun class, right? i'm all down with these fun seattle people, who have been holding classes for about a year, but i have to note with all due respect that i believe the notion is a new york invention.

long-time readers of course recall that in early feb. 2002 i myself used the term punk yoga to describe j. brown, and it wasn't original when i did it. the moniker "punk yogi" had already glommed onto him. . .

anyone finding an earlier citation of this term on the web, please shoot me an url, ok? just for curiosity's sake.

anyway, small historical matters aside, while i was away in italy, the long-awaited -- i mean, long -- juan valdez coffee shop finally opened here in new york. i believe both don schoenholt of gillies and oren himself were present at the opening bash.

now that it's fully fall here, i'm going to check the amount of bread still in my freezer. if supplies approach low, i'll pick up a recipe from carol field's the italian baker and make the famous italian whole-wheat bread, casareccio.

i was fortunate to see an actual loaf of this at rome's upscale bakery, panella. they way they made it there, it is in fact just about more raisins and walnuts than actual bread -- yummy!

i think you also often see it stuffed with olives and nuts, as well. (i'm surprised i can't find a picture of this on il forno: albiston bakes a lot of italian bread there, but i can't find this one. . .)

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