BOOK:|:KITCHEN

Life has certainly taught me a few things in the past few months of my remiss blogging: Maintaining what one aims to accomplish through words alone is often not enough. Nevertheless, I saw graduation this May. It was lovely for my sister and father to visit me in NYC during the marker of MA completion. We ate like kings, drank like their guests and laughed and played a lá court jesters. Was much fun. I moved onto Art Directing a short film thereafter which, honestly, gave me such a rush. Truly deserves a spot as one of the top 10 items in which I've participated. Then I relaxed on Lake George for a bit of R & R. Note: Forget the wine in and around Lake George, in the Adirondacks. Even the praised restaurant at The Sagamore, Trillium bis, along with its highly visible promotion of "wine dinners," I found disappointing. But, a caveat: It was the best game in town, and for that, one can eat well and discover a word of wine and food togetherness utterly attainable anywhere else. Unless of course there's some culinary wunderkind with an outpost I didn't discover.

As promised, in what seems like eons ago, I've launched my extended BOOK:|:KITCHEN site which showcases all my tinkerings in the food and wine world and the overlapping areas of where other disciplines meet the two. I find the most telling stories though the connections of various interests, and sometimes find that "food" is not the real story; maybe it's ideals, ethos, authority, or dare I say power. But there is undoubtedly a narrative behind our consumptive choices. And it is the role we play, that I too play, that leads us to question and unpack a "recent past" that may or may not conflict with our hopeful, progressive amibitions for the future of food.

I will continue posting here for the next few months, but most of my activity you'll find at the definitive BOOK:|:KITCHEN. Please visit. And thanks for bearing with my absence over the months.