Chris Dee
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Latest in Chris Dees Blog
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Tuscan Cooking
Had a fabulous meal last week which reminded me of the genius of Tuscan cooking. It's a story that not only tastes good, but is rich in lessons and metaphors for writing, for comics, for all sorts of human endeavors. In a way it begins with the Crusades. Crusaders and pilgrims returning from the holy land had discovered the rich pleasures that spices introduce to food. They came back, principally through Venice, with this new taste for spice, and Venice grew rich on the spice trade. What Venice had, Florence would have, and the Medicis invested heavily in the spice trade, growing even richer. Near the end of the 1400s, Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and across the Indian Ocean to Malabar and Calicut, exulting "For Christ and Spices!" and Italy soon had to share the spice trade with Portugal, and ultimately relinquish it. It is considered the best thing that happened to Italian cooking, because cooks now had patrons with extremely developed palates... -
Farmers' Market
With all the cooking analogies for writing, I think you all know that I like to cook. Not a fan of the dreary every night variety, more the once a week let's really have some fun kind. It's a beautiful day, and it's Sunday which means the farmers' market is out there. Nothing makes me want to cook and eat healthy like a beautiful day with a farmers' market within walking distance.
Me-ow.
Why does that go in the blog? Because it's part of the liberal arts thing needed for any kind of creative life. If you eat, sleep, and breathe "the job," maybe that's a virtue if it is literally a job and the job is accounting--but even there I doubt it. Your brain doesn't want to eat the same thing every day any more than you do. A work ethic is great, and it's the only way anything ever gets finished in this world, because that first bust of euphoria never lasts. Whether...
