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What Cookbooks Mean to Cooks: A Meditation on a Magic Carpet Ride to Turkey (and We’re Not Talking ‘bout the Bird)
Turkish bread – Katmer – blistered like flatbreads usually do and the feta/dill filling bubbled as the heat reached through the thin buttery dough. In the oven, the cinnamon-laced meatballs cooked slowly in a tomato sauce, enlivened by chopped green peppers and pinches of Marash and Urfa pepper flakes. The fragrance of bread and meat soon brought the rest of the family into the kitchen, hovering…
Wordless Wednesday: Velvet Icosaspirale
Returning to a favorite subject of mine, the sculpture Icosaspirale by Charles Perry at Maritime Plaza in San Francisco. The “velvet” and bokeh effects were done with the Lensbaby Velvet 56 lens.
Wordless Wednesday: Velvet Icosaspirale was originally published on CatSynth
Charles O. Perry
Charles O. Perry
Denard Butler is not the typical cowboy in Checotah, Oklahoma, known as the steer wrestling capital of America. He holds an advanced degree in behavioral health…
The bill would protect state-licensed health care professionals who discriminate but claim they are following a "sincerely held religious belief...
The Supreme Court of the United States of America:
“Religious and philosophical objections to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression. Nevertheless, while those religious and philosophical objections are protected, it is a general rule that such objections do not allow business owners and other actors in the economy and in society to deny protected persons equal access to goods and services.”
Six Texas Republicans and one Texas Democrat:
Hold our beer.
Note, also, that these Texas senators evidently see no meaningful difference between “I don’t want to bake you a wedding cake because I believe gay people shouldn’t be allowed to marry each other” and “I don’t want to treat you because I believe gay people should stay sick and die.”
Mal Waldron Trio - Moonglow & Stardust (1960)
A1. Moonglow A2. Stardust A3. Idaho A4. Sweet Lorraine A5. Coolypso B1. Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea B2. Don't Worry 'Bout Me B3. Sleigh Ride B4. I Surrender Dear Mal Waldron (piano), Wendell Marshall (bass), Charles Perry (drums)