A Bachelor's Effort To Understand Love
28.01.10
The romance, which began three years ago, could have resulted in an engagement and maybe even marriage. Instead, it was the latest in a series of fraught relationships, all of which seemed destined to end in failure.
Mr. Bowe, a perpetual bachelor, had been in love twice before — in high school and as a graduate student — but it had been so long and this new feeling was so profound that it shook him to the core. Rather than making him happy, he said, it confused him.
“This facet of experience most people center their lives around came as this alien, funny, unanticipated shock to me,” he said last week, pounding garlic and spices with a mortar and pestle in the kitchen of his West Village studio apartment. He was certain that he was in love, he said, but felt confounded by how to deal with a relationship that “came with so many complications, and a lot of fear, and a lot of pressure.”
Part of the problem, he said, was the distance involved — Saipan is a two-day trip from New York — and the fact that the woman shared custody of her two sons with their father and couldn’t leave the island.
Source: New York Times
Thai chilies and farm-fresh herbs give curry paste its flavor-packed punch
20.01.10
We bumped along in the back of the pickup, casual men threshing rice under the hot morning sun, roosters pecking at their bamboo cages and a cut buffalo grazing near the canal, her baby tethered alongside.
The mad scent of jasmine filled the air as we turned onto the dusty track leading to the Thai Farm Cooking School. Ten of us signed up to dish out the day at an organic farm outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand, away from the shipping, pollution and noise of the city.
Since arriving in Thailand several days before, I had enjoyed stew-inducing, flavor-packed curries at least once a day and I was eager to learn the art of preparing the centuries-old dish at peaceful.
The bamboo cooking pavilion that served as our classroom was a quiescent retreat overlooking a lotus pond surrounded by hot pink bougainvilleas. The gardens, exactly steps away, were lush with mangoes, bananas, coconuts, celeb fruit and all of the vegetables and herbs we would need to prepare our spread.
Source: The Spokesman Review
before modern kitchens had the ease and strength of a 
A Bachelor's Effort To Understand Love unanticipated shock to me,” he said last week, pounding garlic and spices with a mortar and pestle in the kitchen of his West Village studio apartment.
