Cool Cookbook images
Some cool cookbook images:
New Cookbook
Image by hardillb
New cookbook, with any luck there should be photos of some of it’s contents soon
New Cookbook Bookshelf
Image by phil_g
The cookbooks now have their own bookshelf, freeing up counter space in the kitchen.
Nice Diet photos
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Japanese Diet
Image by timtak
I have spent all my life trying to be thin. Or, well. sometimes I try harder than others but these past few summers I have been on the thin bang wagon again, and generally by the end of summer, I wonder if I have cancer.
I am still not at all Japanese thin. Even the parts pictured above are quite un-thin by Japanese standards. My thighs are still Jfat. I have two or three kilos of flab on each thigh. They are wobbly and gross, but just lately I have been able to see, vaguely, the structure of the muscles in my thighs for the first time in about 30 years.
I am 49. The older one gets, the thinner one has to be to look thin, because ones muscles sag and disappear. I am sure my tits were higher before.
And I think that I am likely to die fat, unlike many Japanese people. It is still an effort. I read a Japanese doctor’s advice column in a local newspaper recently where the doctor advised old folks to eat over the winter. Many Japanese old folks seem to need encouragement to eat – lest they frail away – rather than cut their calories.
One of the reasons I think I am likely to iie fat is, have you note, that no matter how thin I get I think these days I look like an old codger rather than a ripped beast. See me here looking at my tablet, am I enjoying the view? Not so much. I am smirking. I know that this is not succulent. So what is the point!?
One of the things about being flabby is that, like so many other addictive situations, it creates an emotion that is ‘cured’ by worsening the situation. "Oh, my gosh I am flabby, what downer, lets eat some cake", I think. Cake and calories are fun, euphoric, happy making, especially in an anti-self-loatiing kind of way.
One of the first things about a Japanese diet is perhaps to get into a bit of masochism. Even Christianity sometimes says that this world is a viel of tears, but the Buddhist Japanese are more into suffering (ku), especially as an aesthetic (wabi-sabi).
To be thin Japanese style you have to give up on the feel-good, euphoric, suckling on the breast happiness that we take for granted. You, I, need to get to enjoy a Kafkan "isn’t life a bitch, but pretty" or not so ugly, kind of pain and aesthetic gain.
Dieter Rams
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Alex’s 1st Bday
Some cool barbecue foods images:
Alex’s 1st Bday
Image by Vethod
7/16/2011
Come to daddy #bbq #nofilter
Image by Sami Niemelä
amazon jungle_barbecue
Image by carlaarena
photos by Dirk Henker
Nice Cookbook photos
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0109
Image by mdxi
Aidilfitri 2011
A few nice family meals images I found:
Aidilfitri 2011
Image by Phalinn Ooi
Soto
Rome Dinner in a Private Home
Image by theintlkitchen
Enjoying a feast of traditional Italian dishes during a Christmas Day family lunch.
Twitter 365 Project – Day 56
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Had dinner with the folks tonight. And although they divorced about 15 years ago, they’re co-existing right now. Does make it much easier to catch up with them at the same time 🙂
Oh, and my dad was super excited I wanted to take photos with them, and got rather impressed with my camera as I’d set the timer to take 5 shots. So cute I could squish him!
