it’s hot, it’s late, and i’m tired just thinking about biking to work tomorrow. but quickly, two things:
there is a great article in scientific american this month about the universal human need for storytelling. Having just read it before watching the dark knight, i’m pretty convinced they are right.
there is a great paragraph in the bon appetit letter from the editor this month (don’t think that’s online) on why we’re still eating out at restaurants when food prices are so high:
“what has changed is the nature of the restaurant: The places that draw us in these days tend to be extensions of our home, and not the more spiffed-up special-occasion-type spots. (Read: spiff, expensive, daunting.) They’re the casual, more neighborhood-y places. Better yet, for many of us, we can actually walk to a great local spot, reducing our carbon footprint while getting a little exercise in the process.”
Faced with a lot of time to kill before the movie tonite, we decided to opt for a drink at a familiar favorite that fits the neighborhood-y description above (literally, the place is called “neighborhood”), and a less neighborhood-y, more gimmicky place that we hadn’t been to before and that I won’t mention the name of, but that we won’t choose to go to again. Without saying much more (because i’m tired and need to hit the sack), it’s really satisfying to read two really well written things and then realize hours later that you are living the truth of those words.
really i just wanted to say one thing tonight: long live storytelling and unpretentious neighborhood restaurants.
now i’m going to bed to dream of bruce wayne and thomas keller’s version fried chicken (also in the bon appetit issue). hopefully they won’t be in the same dream….
Tags: restaurants, storytelling, thomas keller