After much anticipation,
I finally save up enough money.
I take the bus all the way from p.c.c for my "much deserved lunch" (I knew that if I went, I was not going to make it in time for my evening class)
I get there famished.
I see it unlit and empty, but the little dancing Buddha at the cash register keeps me optimistic, and
then....I see it:
"closed"
my heart drops to the bottom of my feet...
"No, it just can't be"...
I try too open the door, as if there could still be a chance, but like taking the knife out of a deep wound. I think that hurt more.
oh well, maybe next time.
Pho Le Loi
107 E. Valley Blvd. (Just east of Del Mar Avenue)
San Gabriel, CA
91776
Friday, May 30, 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Cooking my Life (In a Nutshell)
I'm still alive, just having trouble getting back to real life. I know...I just kind of left everyone hanging.
I just came back from an ethereal two week stay at Green Gulch Zen Center , working full time as a Benji (assistant to the head monk), washing and bussing dishes three times a day, composting rotting remains in triple digit weather. All this, to be able to attend Edward Espe Browns "How to Cook your Life" workshop.
After all those 5AM Zazen (meditation) sessions, sore muscles, undesirable decomposing odors in triple digit weather...it was worth it. I learned to "wash the rice, when I washed rice, to cut the carrots while I cut the carrots and to stir the soup when I stirred the soup"....I learned to be even more mindful of food.
But if it wasn't for the freshly baked bread of the day--that I still had to cut the slices off the loaf of-- still warm from the oven, jagged, crisped crust and sensually soft interior, along with the daily soup and gourmet vegetarian dinners I had every day, 3 times a day...I don't know if I would of lasted.
Anyways, I will post on the following as soon as I have any sort of chance.
1) The filming and joining of the "Bizarre Foods" show at my house and rest of L.A.
2) My soon to be published book in the works on how food saved--or ruined--my life (I know, I know!)
3) The MILK OPEN HOUSE EVENT (tender, cloud like corn bread made with local corn and stuffed with little raspberry preserves and whole corn kernels, blended green teas with thick, tart cream dollop)
Be patient...
Green Gulch Zen Mountain Center
39171 Tassajara Road
Carmel Valley , CA 93924
I just came back from an ethereal two week stay at Green Gulch Zen Center , working full time as a Benji (assistant to the head monk), washing and bussing dishes three times a day, composting rotting remains in triple digit weather. All this, to be able to attend Edward Espe Browns "How to Cook your Life" workshop.
After all those 5AM Zazen (meditation) sessions, sore muscles, undesirable decomposing odors in triple digit weather...it was worth it. I learned to "wash the rice, when I washed rice, to cut the carrots while I cut the carrots and to stir the soup when I stirred the soup"....I learned to be even more mindful of food.
But if it wasn't for the freshly baked bread of the day--that I still had to cut the slices off the loaf of-- still warm from the oven, jagged, crisped crust and sensually soft interior, along with the daily soup and gourmet vegetarian dinners I had every day, 3 times a day...I don't know if I would of lasted.
Anyways, I will post on the following as soon as I have any sort of chance.
1) The filming and joining of the "Bizarre Foods" show at my house and rest of L.A.
2) My soon to be published book in the works on how food saved--or ruined--my life (I know, I know!)
3) The MILK OPEN HOUSE EVENT (tender, cloud like corn bread made with local corn and stuffed with little raspberry preserves and whole corn kernels, blended green teas with thick, tart cream dollop)
Be patient...
Green Gulch Zen Mountain Center
39171 Tassajara Road
Carmel Valley , CA 93924
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