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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Can't beat a golden beet


When it's roasted and along with lettuce and tzatziki (Lebanese yogurt sauce) housed inside a pocket pita.

Thursday, May 1, 2014

Quinoa queen

This ain't no ordinary skillet egg; it's egg nestled in a bed of quinoa.

Name it the "Quinoa Queen"?

Ingredients:

6 eggs

1/2 cup Quinoa

Corn Kernel

Black Bean

Onion

Garlic

Cilantro

Enchilada Sauce

T and I had it for dinner: sumptuous!

A polycentric world


Poly is a word that connotes multiplicity, i.e. many.

There's polytheism and there is polyandry.

Writer Pico Iyer gives an eloquent snapshot of a polycentric world in his book The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home:
Everywhere is so made up of everywhere else--a polycentric anagram--that I hardly notice I'm sitting in a Parisian cafe just outside Chinatown (in San Francisco), talking to a Mexican American friend about biculturalism while a Haitian woman stops off to congratulate him on a piece he's just delivered on TV on St. Patrick's Day. "I know all about those Irish nuns," she says in a thick patois, as we sip our Earl Grey tea near signs that say, CITY OF HONG KONG, EMPRESS OF CHINA.