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June 15, 2006
Gazpacho Tourist
Lately I've been ordering the gazpacho anytime I see it on the menu at a restaurant. It's such a CR friendly summer springy way to get your veggies in a chilled, delicious format. Here are a few observations:
- The more expensive the restaurant, the more smooth, purreed the gazpacho
- More gazpachos are green than red these days.
- No one has ever heard of Bloody Mary Gazpacho, but everyone wants to try it.
On Tuesday night one of my friends tooked me out for a spur of the moment dinner at a great restaurant called Gayle's in Center City Philly. It was awesome! Their gazpacho was green and had basil and fennel in addition to the usual ingredients. It was almost creamy... made me contemplate putting nonfat plain yogurt into mine sometime.
As for some of the comments, here are some brief answers:
-- No TV: my former step-father didn't like TV, so I spent several years of my childhood not watching it, and I just never started again (except for a few summers in high school when I obsessively watched Crossfire on CNN because I had a crush on Michael Kinsley.) I just don't like it. I find the noise annoying, and I don't like ambient noise -- either I am listening to something, or I'm not. I also find that people who watch TV sometimes pay attention to the TV when they should be paying attention to me. As a Leo and an only child, I do not approve of any distractions that might keep others from paying attention to me! To me! To me!
As to the faith question: funny how all the athiests out there assume that I have no personal experience of any force other than those that *they* have experienced. You have no idea what my experience is. Don't assume that just because you haven't had experience of things other than what you can measure with your five senses, that no one else has. That's like someone who is color blind insisting that colors don't exist. I have no doubt that you have perceptions of the world that would seem alien to me... science people often see meaning and detail where none is apparent to me; musicians hear patterns in the world around them that are beautiful to them but go right over my head. Consider the possibility that I have direct experience of things that you may not.
I don't try to convince you of my system of belief... you asked, so I answered. I try to show respect for your beliefs or lack thereof.
Even those of you who don't like gazpacho. Which is almost unfathomable to me, even horrifying, but a reality I have come to terms with. Some people have a problem with cold soup. All I can do is pray for them.
Posted by april at June 15, 2006 7:37 AM
Comments
Ha ha ha! Thanks for responding April! You are a hoot!
AG
Posted by: Ariel Glenn at June 15, 2006 9:47 AM