[extropy-chat] The Extropy of Cooking

[Natasha Vita-More]

>From: "J. Andrew Rogers"
> > -- cooking is a very complex art,
> > especially at the very high end.

I could not agree more.  When I lived in Italy in the mid 1970s I was in 
school at the Accademia di Belle Arti.  I took a bus from my apartment by 
the sea (where I would pick up muscles on the shore and bicycle down to the 
docks to greet the fisherman and purchase my evening's meal) into Ravenna. 
Near to the accademia, was a small ristorante where I apprenticed a couple 
of days a week.  I learned how to make pasta and pizza from scratch, and 
palenta, ravioli and tortellini dishes, and real lasagna. I wrote a small 
Italian cook book on beautiful Ravenna note cards, sewn together with 
Italian lace, and send as a gift to friends back in the US.

The beauty of learning the cuisine of Italy is the art of preparation.  The 
mood - ambience - that accompanies the event of cooking truly sets the 
stage for entertaining people, even if that people is just you.  I spend at 
least one night a week recreating that "feeling" I had in Italy making 
pasta con sause di basil di aglio di pomodoro.

Natasha


<http://www.natasha.cc/>Natasha <http://www.natasha.cc/>Vita-More
Cultural Strategist - Designer
President, <http://www.extropy.org/>Extropy Institute
Member, <http://www.profuturists.com/>Association of Professional Futurists
Founder, <http://www.transhumanist.biz/>Transhumanist Arts & Culture

If you draw a circle in the sand and study only what's inside the circle, 
then that is a closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the 
circle and everything outside the circle, then that is an open system 
perspective. - Buckminster Fuller


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