Good rules, Richard. As for finger food, I love it. And years ago I heard John
Douilliard explain that when we eat with our hands, it opens the marma points.
So all those cultures that feature lots of finger food are actually pretty wise
about all this eating business (-:
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 9:25 AM, "'Richard J. Williams'
pundits...@gmail.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
No, not that silly practice that wannabee yogis perform when they want to feel
all self-important for abstaining from doing something they'd rather be doing
than abstaining from.
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On 9/10/2014 9:09 AM, j_alexander_stan...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife] wrote:
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>For me, eating out is only a true pleasure if the chef can cook better than I
>can. And, in Fairfield, that is rare. Yesterday, I roasted a leg of lamb and
>had it with a side salad of arugula and kimchee.
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But, can you get good tacos up there? One of my rules is to never
eat at a restaurant that has an empty parking lot.
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>No, not that silly practice that wannabee yogis perform when they want to feel
>all self-important for abstaining from doing something they'd rather be doing
>than abstaining from. Tapas, the cuisine from Spain. I felt like having some
>today, and fortunately in Leiden one can find pretty much any type of food in
>the world, so now I'm comfortably seated at a canalside restaurant enjoying a
>beer and some albondigas and calamares and mejillones, abstaining from
>nothing. *Much* better form of tapas than that yogi stuff.
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>I've never understood that "spiritual"
kinda tapas, and why people get off on
it. It's like they expect
some kinda "brownie points" for
*resisting* something that the Natural
Tendency Of Their Minds is drawing them
towards? WTF? Just doesn't compute for
me.
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>I don't even get the concept. I mean, is
some god or some Law Of Nature supposed
to be *impressed* by some monk who
(similar to TM guys on rounding courses)
spends 90% of his time thinking about
sex, but isn't really ever gettin' any?
Seems to me that the god or the Law in
question would want the guy to Go Get
Laid Already, so that he could come back
to meditation and spend a little time
transcending.
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>Anyway, I like the Spanish version of
tapas much more. Little dishes of fish
or shellfish or veggies or meats, small
enough so that you can order 3 to start
with and stop there if that satisfies
you, or order 3 more (or 12 more) if the
first course doesn't. It's a perfect
eating style for me, because I tend to
have a
small appetite and like to "graze,"
rather than eating a long, full meal.
YMMV.
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>This is a very important post. We now know that bawee likes to graze rather
>than eat a full meal. I will go forth today feeling that much more enriched
>and empowered. Keep these posts coming bawee. And, I was not disappointed
>because you were able, as is your usual style and form, to denigrate others
>while showing the rest of us how lucky and special you are because you have
>access to tapas in Leiden. Well done. I have a feeling you did not take this
>picture of the actual meal you consumed.
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