I’ve been cooking: chicken yakitori | vegetable red curry noodles | cardamom pots de creme baked pasta with four cheeses | chicken piccata with artichokes and olives
Archive for July, 2005
haam nafas if gastronomy and all things related to it weren’t so absolutely great, i’d feel like my entries had become repetitive. there are three things i never tire of talking about: food, international politics, and travel. achieving one out of three, and working towards achieving a life dedicated to the second, which in turn [...]
vaay dahanam aab oftaad, eshtehaa’am raa oftaad this evening i saw the house is black, a 1963 documentary about life on a leper colony, by the legendary iranian poet forugh farrokhzad. poetically narrated, it was extremely sad and moving. both mohsen makhmalbaf and abbas kiarostami consider this short documentary to be a major influence on [...]