The Modern Harlot

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Yippee! Can't wait to dig in to the new @saveurmag on France. This is what happens with you partner up with a French expat: #unexpectedfrancophone #threehourdinner #buygood butter #winewhynot

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Just had a fantastic #dinner at @namusf ringside. Great #glutenfree options, gotta have the #beeftongue and #chickenwings. Definitely going back. (at Namu Gaji)

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Just diving into @_sarahwilson_ 's @iquitsugar book. It's beautiful, thoughtful, and so full of good ideas. #cookbooks #iqs #iquitsugar #food #recipes

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Props to @ijjisushisf for supporting the female sake maker of "Moon on the Water" Fukucho. It's embarrassing how little women are recognized in high cuisine -- but it's changing!!! #feminism #women #sake #sushi #props

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Carte Gastronomique de la France by Charles Louis de Gassicourt (1809) - Found thanks to Thomas Parker and his book #tastingfrenchterroir.

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Great talk by Thomas Parker on his book #tastingfrenchterroir today @omnivorebooks. Snapshot Summary: The French talk about terroir, they are metaphorically infusing food with history and landscape. They are creating and recreating their identity through eating.

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Check out that grass growing @stemplecreek ranch!! I freaking love following their photos as we slowly make our way through a chest freezer full of their incredible beef and lamb. #grassfed #local #bayarea #beef #lamb #grassfarming

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Our Friday night dinner party racks of lamb are rocking out in our @anovaculinary #sousvide machine. @raphaelvarieras is planning on a quick sear after a few hours at 124 deg F. So freakin easy.

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@tinstarfoods #ghee is the best in the world #cultured #grassfed #useitoneverything

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Loving my morning cup of #stevensmithteamaker Mao Feng green tea and meandering through the book that gave The Modern Harlot its name. #goodmorning

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A chocolate chestnut cake patiently waiting for tonight's dinner party. Or maybe I'm the one waiting patiently! Recipe used from @nytfood and originally adapted from THE BEST gf baking book ever: Flavor Flours by @alicemedrich

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Super stoked to be planning a little cookbook for Hestia, Greek goddess of the hearth. More to come :) :) (at Dandelion Chocolate)

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So it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life.  The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament. --Bruno Schulz

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“Most important is the basic practice of mindfulness, through which the hard edge of the narrow ego can soften. Sacredness, the inherent value of the cosmos and of each of its interrelated processes, is already there. We do not need to do anything about this, even if we could. To perceive sacredness is to harmonize within the total natural world, of which we are.” - Jeremy Hayward in the collection of essays Dharma Gaia

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"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand  growth, it would look like complete destruction." -Cynthia Occelli (via Ishtar Kramer)

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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.” - Martha Graham

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When despair for the world grows in me

and I wake in the night at the least sound

in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be,

I go and lie down where the wood drake

rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.

I come into the peace of wild things

who do not tax their lives with forethought

of grief. I come into the presence of still water.

And I feel above me the day-blind stars

waiting with their light. For a time

I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

— Wendell Berry