On My Coffee Table
I usually don’t play the meme game, but I couldn’t resist this one from the Gorgeous Redhead at Gorgeous Things. Gorgeous Things is a sewing blog — elegant, near-couture-level plumage. Those who know me well would be astonished that I hang out there, seeing as I haven’t threaded a needle since The Horror that was Home Ec Class. How did I even find her blog?
I fell in love with her posts at Project Rungay, where her avatar shows her ear lobe to ear lobe with my boyfriend, Tim Gunn. (Does Tim know he’s my boyfriend? No, but I plan to enlighten him soon. I’m confident he’ll be thrilled.)
So: the rules:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
I’d been reading “Don’t Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World’s Greatest Chefs” edited by Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman. For a brief moment I considered cheating on the page # here–just a few digits lower would have put me into a Tamasin essay, but I’ll do the right thing.
From “Hope for Snow,” by Seattle chef and restaurateur Tom Douglas.
After the anger toward my pregnant wife subsided for “making it snow,” I had a lemons-into-lemonade moment. Saigon Restaurant in the Pike Place Market, one of my favorite little holes in the wall, makes a delicious bowl of pork wonton soup. This must have been my inspiration, because somewhere during the first hour of service it occurred to me to make a lobster sausage with raw lobster meat and to fill wonton wrappers — which we happened to have a case of in the refrigerator.
A nice little essay. But if you buy the book, DO NOT MISS Tamasin’s chapter: an account of cooking a pheasant dinner in her Cambridge dormitory room. With a brace of pheasants that had gone hideously, maggotty bad.
Tagging:
Eric
Kevin
Sonia
Henry
Carol
Tags: "Don't Try This at Home, Andrew Friedman, chef Tom Douglas, Gorgeous Things blog, Kimberly Witherspoon, Project Rungay, Seattle chef, Tamasin Day-Lewis, Tim Gunn
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May 11th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Ok, I have my book and I AM going to do it, because I am incapable of saying NO to you! I’ve been meme’d by Gigi.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Thanks, darlin. I promise to tag you only once a year.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:23 am
I bailed on mine because the nearest book was some rancid thing about copywriting (why are copywriting books always so badly written?) and I couldn’t stink up anybody’s joint–yours or mine–with it. I will try and drop a bunch of books on my head or something to come up with one.