A Year of Improvising
En Cuisine, comme dans tous les arts, la simplicité est le signe de la perfection. (“In cooking, as in all the arts, simplicity is the sign of perfection”)
Richard Olney - Simple French Food
Slow Mondays, Cooking with Massimo & Friends
It’s funny but I have to come to realise over the past few weeks as I manage and figure out how I am going to cook every recipe in this book I realise that reading a cook book and mediating upon the recipes is much like a spiritual practice. You turn up, you read, begin, make, follow, sample, season, taste, prepare and ultimately create something beautiful to sustain your day. You commit, you take your intentions, your creativity and your intuition to the table.
“in the end it’s all just violets trying to come to light” - Elizabeth Gilbert
“Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears, sees it, senses it, knows it, is fed. That is why beholding someone else’s creative word, image, idea fills us up, inspires us to our own creative work. A single creative act has the potential to feed a continent. One creative act can cause a torrent to break a stone”.
Women who run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes