I can hardly believe that I've been in the new house almost 5 weeks. All that stressing seems so far past. I knew it would be this way: once I get all my stuff arranged, I can't imagine living anywhere else. All that to say: life's back to normal and even (dare I say?) kind of boring right now.
I feel like all I've been doing lately is working, reading and going to the gym. I really want to spend some time outside because I've grown to love outside more than inside, but it's hotter than James Brown's Celebrity Hot Tub these days (oowww!), so I'm becoming one with the air conditioner.
I'm reading this great book that my dad gave me called The Supper of the Lamb by Robert Farrar Capon. It is such a pleasure to read. It's something between a cookbook, a theology book, and maybe a memoir, too. Capon is an Episcopal priest, an amateur chef, and quite the humourist as well. I'm not even a third of the way through it yet, but so far I've learned: an onion is a beautiful thing, I'm in desperate need of new knives, and I need to spend more time enjoying the process of cooking. A more thorough review will follow once I finish the book, but I recommend that you go ahead and buy it and start reading it now. Even if you've never envisioned yourself as a chef - professional or amateur - this one is well worth the read. And don't skip the introduction or preface! They're good, too.
Oh! Is he the guy Lauren Winner talks about in mudhouse sabbath who takes like an hour to prepare an onion and sees onion-using as like this super-spiritual experience? Just that little line in mudhouse made me think differently about chopping an onion.
Posted by: Brad B at July 17, 2006 09:16 AMI haven't read Mudhouse Sabbath (though it's been on my Amazon wishlist for at least a year!), but it's got to be the same guy she's talking about.
Posted by: Christin at July 18, 2006 08:38 AM