Quote of the Day

"...cooking was mine. It relaxed me...It was a way to make sense out of my internal chaos. There is logic and order to cooking. What you put into it has everything to do with what you get out of it. With love, it's not so cut-and-dried."

- Giulia Melucci, I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti (a fun beach read: chick lit meets Martha Stewart)

How going to the gym is like running a restaurant..

A GREAT article on the Myers + Chang blog today-- very entertaining. Here's an excerpt:

You see all types when you go to the gym. There are those who show up with new work out gear, pump iron furiously for ten minutes, and then disappear after a few weeks when they don’t see results of their workout quickly enough. (Circle in the South End.) There are the buff college students, full of energy, who spend hours at the Y, playing basketball and doing pull-ups and having a blast. (We heart Jamie Bissonette.) I love watching the slow-and-steady older folks who come as a group and walk the treadmill - they arrive at the Y every single day with a smile and work out for a full hour each time. (Franklin South End.) And then there are the preeners- those who seem more interested in looking gorgeous and observing themselves in the mirrors than actually breaking a sweat. (You fill in the blank here….) It’s quite an anthropological show.

I'm totally the old person, walking on the treadmill .. haha ;)

Check it out!

Quote of the Day

"I'm kind of sick to death of the food police and these emaciated anorexics telling people what to eat."

- Lydia Shire to the Improper Bostonian

She is a sassy one! And I like it.

Quote of the Day

I like this quote from Amy Traverso's article on Todd English in the April issue of Boston magazine. (It's a great article, by the way; check it out here).

The quote I speak of is from Alan Richman, a restaurant critic:

"People like me who have never worked in a restaurant, we're entranced by the romance of something that isn't romantic. We're like people who watch the ballet and see the beautiful ballerinas and don't see the bloody feet."

What an eloquent way to sum up the strange allure of the restaurant business.

Life Quote

I'm stealing this from one of my favorite blogs, A Cup of Jo... I love this quote. Has nothing to do with food, but I thought I would share all the same:

"I must learn to love the fool in me--the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool." -- Theodore I. Rubin, MD

Enjoy your inner fool this weekend :)

Quote of the Day-- for all the waitresses out there..

I feel like I have to share this kind-of-amusing quote from this morning, brought to you by one of the greatest television shows of all time, Saved by the Bell.

"I've already made 5 dollars in tips!" - Kelly, after her first waitressing shift at The Max.

(Did five dollars really go that far in the early 90s?)