Use me

If you spend time cooking and baking, you're usually reaching for a towel every few minutes. Studiopatro delivers beauty with function.

Color scheme

Pantone, everywhere!

Cups

Folding chairs

Christmas ornaments

Storage boxes 

Garden pots

100 Objects

Together, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and The British Museum produced a 100-part radio series using objects in the museum collection as an introduction to human history. Presented by British Museum director Neil MacGregor, a book was published as an accompaniment to the 15-minute episodes.

 Egyptian figurine of four cows 

Cows were domesticated in Africa and the Middle East.

Cattle from all parts of the world are their descendents.

 Head of Augustus, circa 27-25 BC

Augustus felt the republic of Rome needed great leadership. His leadership. He became the first emperor of Rome, with Egypt as part of that empire.

In the Dull Village, David Hockney 1966/67

In 1967, homosexual acts in private settings were decriminalized in England and Wales.

Switch it up

If you're not a purist or loyal to your Grandmother's family recipe for potato pancakes,

you might consider Daikon-Potato Latkes. I made them last night, served with Wasabi-yogurt topping and they were tasty!


Ingredients:

8 ounces russet potato (shred on large holes of box grater)
8 ounces daikon radish (shred on large holes of box grater)
3 scallions finely chopped
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1 Tablespoon chili sauce
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1 large egg, beat loosely
salt and pepper to taste

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vegetable oil for  frying

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Combine all ingredients in a bowl
Press a handful into a flat cake in your hands (squeezing out excess
liquid from the vegetables)
Place cakes into hot oil, frying each side until golden (about 4 min. a side)
Drain on paper towels briefly and keep warm in oven until ready to serve.
)my oven was set to 250 degrees)

Wasabi Yogurt sauce

2 Tablespoons Wasabi mayonnaise,

2 Tablespoons plain yogurt

1 teaspoon lemon juice

Stir ingredients together and serve alongside pancakes

10 List : No time like then

I'm a sucker for time travel stories so I loved, loved, loved the new film Safety Not Guaranteed and I'm eagerly looking forward to Looper which opens this September. 

Get back in time with these ten:

Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)

Device: Customized rowboat

Upside:  Restore your belief in love and possibility

Downside: Lose your day job (wait, that’s still an upside!)

Midnight in Paris (2011)

Device: a particular Parisian stoop at midnight

Upside: Meet exciting artists and writers from the 1920’s,

Downside: Realize you’re a bland sell-out.

Primer (2004)

Device: Large box

Upside: Make money in the stock market

Downside: Risk coma and death

Time Bandits (1981)

Device: Dwarves with a map full of holes

Upside: Witness great moments in history and steal treasure

Downside: Endlesssly chased by an evil sorcerer

Pleasantville (1998)

Device: Special remote control  delivered by Don Murray

Upside: Experience an uncomplicated lifestyle

Downside: Get really, really bored

Twelve Monkeys (1995)

Device: An enormous corroded sewer pipe

Upside: Save the future world from a devastating virus

Downside: Get locked up in an asylum

Back to the Future (1985)

Device: Customized DeLorean

Upside:  See a kinder, gentler America

Downside: Get hit on by future Mom

Time After Time (1979)

Device: A pod shaped time machine

Upside: Hunt for Jack the Ripper,

Downside: Risk girlfriend to the maniac

The Terminator (1984)

Device: Time displacement equipment that resembles a jet engine

Upside: Save humankind from extinction,

Downside: You can only rest when you’re dead

The Jacket (2005)

Device:  Combination of straightjacket and morgue drawer

Upside: Save a young girl from a bleak destiny

Downside: Claustrophobia

God! That was beautiful.

A few jewels from an interview with Ray Bradbury in the Paris Review. The rest of the interview is here.

John Huston reviews the Moby Dick screenplay written by Ray Bradbury 

INTERVIEWER
You have said that you don’t believe in going to college to learn to write. Why is that?

BRADBURY
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the other hand, has no biases. The information is all there for you to interpret. You don’t have someone telling you what to think. You discover it for yourself.

INTERVIEWER
How important has your sense of optimism been to your career?

BRADBURY
I don’t believe in optimism. I believe in optimal behavior. That’s a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don’t know—you haven’t done it yet. You must live life at the top of your voice! At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes. I learned a lesson years ago. I had some wonderful Swedish meatballs at my mother’s table with my dad and my brother and when I finished I pushed back from the table and said, God! That was beautiful. And my brother said, No, it was good. See the difference? Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you’ve done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I’ll be damned, I did this today. It doesn’t matter how good it is, or how bad—you did it. At the end of the week you’ll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I’ll be damned, it’s been a good year.

INTERVIEWER
What do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?

BRADBURY
Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you can a book. A computer does not smell. There are two perfumes to a book. If a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better. It smells like ancient Egypt. A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it. You put it in your pocket and you walk with it. And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.