Dinner for mom

WEEK4-DAY 4

1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY

Michel Pagliaro - Fou de toi (Canadian Rock'n Roll)

2. PLACES TO KNOW

Montreal - Portuguese Tv show about Portugueses no Mundo

Expo 67’s American pavilion - Biosphère - a video from 1967

3. PEOPLE TO DISCOVER

Bucky Fuller

4. QUESTION OF THE DAY

5. INSPIRATION

“As any epicure knows, a fair is no fair unless it serves an ungreasy, non-rubbery hot dog and French fries that do not taste like shoestrings swimming limply in lard. Expo meets these primary gastronomic standards in first-rate style. For 35 cents you can buy a succulent chien chaud (Québecois for a wiener on a bun). And the patates frites (French for fried potatoes) are firm and crunchy at 25 cents for a good serving.”

The wondrous fair

“Babette’s Feast”, based on a story by Karen Blixen.

After Babette spent all her life’s money on a special dinner, she was told that she’d be poor for the rest of her life. Her response was: “No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, Mesdames, is never poor. We have something, Mesdames, of which other people know nothing.”

Jorgen Leth’s The Perfect Human.

Gibeau Orange Julep, a restaurant, a giant orange hosting a “cassecroûte”.

“Spherification is kitchen alchemy; a technique that enables you to imbue a flavorful liquid with the appearance of being solid, an illusion that’s broken when the spheres burst with flavor as they’re eaten.” Do you want to learn it?

Checking some Molecular Recipes

The peasant wedding by Pieter Bruegel the Old.

Andy Warhol’s 32 Campbell’s soup cans

“A Series of Notebook Illustrations of Characters At The Dinner Table.”

6. HOMEWORK 25

It's the green beans soup again. My mother had the flu recently and this last week temperatures in Portugal dropped and she got hill again. She went to the doctor and this time she is on antibiotics. The doctor told her that she should be in bed. But she is stuborn. She gets up in the morning and stays up. She just goes to bed earlier than usual, when sun starts to disappear and the house gets colder. She has lost her appetite. Even so she said the soup is delicious. My mother does not like what I cook. That's the rule. What I know about cooking I learned from her. I try to cook her way but food always tastes differently! A mistery!