But, here it is. Following a weekend that began with Friday’s oven like conditions as sensed by the flutter mobile's onboard instrumentation suite:
As expected we didn’t go to the last River Concert of the year, probably our first miss in quite a few. The rest of the weekend with the exception of a lovely dinner at some friend’s house passed sort of uneventfully. Stay inside, be cool. We did, however taker our first dip in the vision improved gray lagoon, and even though it was bath water temperature it was a bit refreshing.
Funny about this heat (July was the hottest July EVER). You are well aware I have whined about brain lethargy and inactivity a lot, but the more I talk to people I find I am not alone. Many people I idly talk with share the same phenomenon.
Other coping techniques besides just avoiding outside activity have included staying hydrated. You know those big cups of “Slurpee” you can get at 7/11? Well, Taco Bell has gone one more. You can now get a drink so big you need a handle to carry it. Bucket o’ tea.
Just a couple of other notes…
Garden & Gun, one of my most appreciated magazines has won an award from the American Society of Magazine Editors. They were selected as the winner of the Overall Excellence award for Food, Travel, and Design magazines. Others in the category were Saveur, Condé Nast Traveler, and House Beautiful. See, your feeder isn’t so stupid. Although, I was surprised to see National Geographic named Magazine of the Year. Does anybody really read that anymore?
By the way, the current issue of G&G (August/September) has one of those featured chef pieces (Spike Gjerde of Woodbury Kitchen in Baltimore) called “Must-Have Crab”. The teaser on the front cover is “Perfect Maryland Crab Cakes”. Two things: one, the use of the word “perfect”, and two, what is it that everybody talks about Maryland Crab Cakes or Maryland Style Crab Cakes? Is it because they use blue crab from the Bay which Maryland sort of embraces? Pretty much every recipe for the little cakes is similar, crab, some kind of binder, mayo, egg sometimes, and some spices that vary. That’s it. What’s “Maryland” about that? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen “Florida Style Crab Cakes”, or “Iowa Style Crab Cakes”. One of those imponderables I guess…
And lastly I’ve seen a couple of pieces on TV and in print about the growing amount of “Kid Unfriendly” places. Apparently there are many restaurants (my arena) that are “banning” kids. I don’t think I argue with that, for sure at higher end places. Although I do have some friends who come to mind whose children are as well behaved as their parents. But how many times have you wanted to have a nice quiet meal only to have the little one at the next table melt down and act like an exorcism is taking place. The restaurateurs say that with the expanding number of DINKS around, they make up whatever they may lose from family dining because the kidless folks will linger longer, buy that extra bottle of wine, or maybe a dessert they wouldn’t normally. Open for debate (just like the Maryland Crab Cakes!). Oh, some airlines are apparently thinking along the same lines. For an extra fee of course.
Something to think about while you are
DFD
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