Georges Auguste Escoffier (French: 28 October 1846 – 12 February 1935) was a French chef, restaurateur and culinary writer who popularized and updated traditional French cooking methods. Much of Escoffier’s technique was based on that of Marie-Antoine Carême, one of the codifiers of French haute cuisine, but Escoffier’s achievement was to simplify and modernize Carême’s elaborate and ornate style. In particular, he codified […]
Intellectual Prostitutes It would seem that Paula Craig Roberts has been proven correct! John Swinton, former Chief of Staff of the most powerful and prestigious newspaper on earth, The New York Times, when asked to give a toast to the “free press” at the New York Press Club stated: “There is no such thing, at this […]
Didymos Judas Thomas Nag Hammadi Codex II, folio 32, the beginning of the Gospel of Thomas The Gospel of Thomas was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius […]
Ten Ten Code 0010110 was dropped on my brain today by Dr. Deb from Boston. She’s always Avantgarde when it comes to spirit, so as the story goes…. a few years ago a group of people began a world-wide time for mass meditation at 10:10 twice per day, from anywhere in the world, when it […]
Canada has produced some great content creators on YouTube and one of my favourites is Shawn James and his dog Kelly, at their cabin in Northern Ontario. The Channel is called My Self-Reliance. There’s allot to learn from this channel and it’s amazing to see so many people watch it and that Shawn has become […]
My lovely dog Victoria is now deceased and despite knowing for months that she was suffering from chronic bronchitis and not well at all, then given a few more weeks time by modern medicine and excellent loving care. Even knowing she was going to be leaving it still didn’t prepare me for the emotions I […]
The coat of arms of Spain, flanked by the Pillars of Hercules bearing the motto Plus ultra Are you the Optimist we are looking for? <!– Optimistic thinkers never hide secrets in code–> That’s what it says (above) in the source code of the home page of Plus Ultra Society, leaves little doubt that there […]
Donald or Scrooge – A mural painted on a garage in an alley near Roosevelt Row in central Phoenix, Arizona. This location is just north of Garfield and 2nd Avenue, in the most colorful alley in town. Now that I blog everyday, in freestyle mode, without a topic or agenda and with only one purpose, […]
As I’ve mentioned before in this blog, topics that are negative, mean-spirited, insulting to someone other than myself or instill fear, will be excluded because I don’t want to add to those thoughts and ideas. The weather was once the safest thing to talk about with anyone, not anymore, now that we’re in Grand Solar […]
Hamadryas baboon (Papio hamadryas) – Paignton Zoo, Devon – May 2019 It’s true Number Magic as All the people in the world are of the same age this year! It’s amazing: this year all the people in the world are all in the same age group, all equal to 2019. Just like number magic, this […]
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