e pur si muove

Wet pine needles, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati.

I went to the Taste of CU this afternoon. Got caught in a sudden downpour. Didn’t eat much, but I did spend $40 on an ikebana dish, a jug, a mug, two pots, a margarita salter, seven tealight cups, a vase, and a melted glass marble fish decorative dish. It was so worth it.

Pottery spoils, originally uploaded by Elia Diodati.

I had some VIPs over the other day and I made a salad with vinaigrette dressing; it wasn’t an ordinary one either. Extra-virgin olive oil with balsamic vinegar (the real kind that costs $3 a tablespoon), grated orange zest and some white truffle oil. Emulsified by hand until it was all creamy (a pain, but worth it) and sprayed with an atomizer over the usual suspects: Romaine, Boston and iceberg lettuces; kale, and arugula. And then topped off with baked parsley-encrusted croutons made from slightly stale homemade bread. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

The only response I got from that?

“Mmm, not bad.”

Some people are just cows^*. How can they live their entire lives with such insensitive tastebuds? Poor things.

I doubt they’ll be swinging by this part of the country anytime soon. Materialistic city-slickers.

^*对牛弹琴, to serenade cows.

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