It’s one week + one day since the 4th of July. Since then I’ve had a lot of cooking adventures that didn’t come out quite right. And the ever-increasing horror of the big ugly bill, somewhat ameliorated with small encouragements when people fight back. And all the bad news from Texas and other climate change … [Read more…]
We started off looking at a show of work by Raymond Saunders, who grew up in Pittsburgh and was inspired to be an artist by his high school teachers and also by taking the Saturday morning art classes at the Carnegie, that Andy Warhol also attended. It was called the Tam O’Shanter classes when I … [Read more…]
Except it really wasn’t, it was more like a fun four days in our old home town. For years my brother and have talked about going to Pittsburgh, visit our parents grave, wander around some of our old haunts, maybe see a few old friends. And that’s pretty much exactly what we did, except we … [Read more…]
But it didn’t quite work out. Yesterday – Thursday – was supposed to be a long day. My schedule was go to campus, volunteer at the book sale, meet a studnet (who didn’t show), followed by back-to-back online class meetings, one at 6:00 PM, and one at 8:00. And somewhere in there, between 4:00 and … [Read more…]
Let’s see if I can tell you about a couple of things that stand out. Affogato for dessert at Avec. It’s that Italian dessert that’s just coffee, espresso really, dumped over vanilla ice cream. Here’s Food52’s take on it. Lots of high end restaurants serve it with some baked good on the side. We had … [Read more…]