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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">From: "J. Andrew
Rogers"<br>
> -- cooking is a very complex art,<br>
> especially at the very high end.</blockquote><br>
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
<font size=2>tortellini </font>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. <br><br>
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.<br><br>
Natasha<br><br><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>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. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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