Elatia's Profile |
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| Age: | 99 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts |
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| Height: | 0' 0" |
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| Last Login: | Feb 18, 2008 (651 days back) |
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About Me |
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I'm a chef, cooking teacher and writer who loves music and good reading. |
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My Interests |
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| Volcanoes, truffles, Guarneri del Gesu violins, the discharge rate of the Amazon River, fractals, poodles, Chartres Cathedral, fraises de bois, saffron, heirloom tomatoes, roof gardens, rosewater, wild horses, peace on Earth | |
I'd like to meet:Here's the dinner party: Joseph Brodsky, Giacomo Leopardi, Bruce Chatwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Henri IV, Stravinsky, Maya Deren, Sartre, Rostropovich, Richard Feynman, Mme. du Chatelet, Machado de Assis, Oscar Wilde, Hedy LamarrOK, they can't make it. So I'd like to meet people seeking great results at dinner without killing themselves in the kitchen, especially when they'd rather be reading, writing or listening to music. |
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Music:A few of the world's most wondrous voices: Francoise Atlan, Savina Yannatou, Ghada Shbeir, Dawn Upshaw, Elena Ledda, Anne Briggs, Anne Azema, Rokia Traore, Mercedes Sosa, Omara Portuondo, Soeur Marie KeyrouzAnd a few of the most amazing instrumentalists: Kiya Tabassian, Imane Homsy, Paul Dateh, Bela Fleck, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Matt Haimovitz, Liu Fang, Paco de Lucia, Alexis Weissenberg And a few ensembles: Constantinople, Cat Power, En Chordais, the Guarneri String Quartet, the Andalucian Dogs |
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Movies:Some movies that are apparently though not really about food and/or cooking: Babette's Feast, Tampopo, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Ratatouille, La Grande Bouffe.If there's a good movie that's really about food and/or cooking, please tell me. |
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Television:Anything with Harriet Harris |
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Books:Great reading about food: M.F.K. Fisher, Michael Pollan, Anthony Bourdain, Gael Greene, Elizabeth Schneider, Harold McGee, Andrew Dalby, Annemarie Colbin, Paul Pitchford, Elizabeth David, Madhur Jaffrey, Julia ChildGreat reading not about food: Franz Wright, Tim Parks, Penelope Fitzgerald, Dan Chaon, Sandor Marai, W.G. Sebald, Aharon Appelfeld, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Alice Munro, John Banville, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Mary Yukari Waters, Fanny Howe, ZZ Packer, Jhumpa Lahiri, Terry Eagleton, Simon Schama, Theodor Adorno, Hildegard of Bingen, Yi-fu Tuan, Martin Moran |
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Heroes:The Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, Paul Farmer, Frida Kahlo, Lady Murasaki, Anna Akhmatova, Archimedes, Galileo, Mozart, Virginia Woolf, Desmond Tutu, Richard Feynman, Sophocles, Man Ray |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Hometown: | Ft. Worth, TX |
| Occupation: | cooking teacher & writer |
My Friends |
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Elena Ledda, Kiya Tabassian, Nitin Sawhney, cj, Pablo, andrea schroeder, Em, Sor Juana Inés, THE LIBRARY FAIRY! ®, Indy Writers Group, Free Quinci, Bei Bei, DEEYAH, ANDY SUMMERS, BOB JAMES & NP MOLVAER, Walter Taieb, Esmaa Self, Peter, Nancy Marmolejo ~ Visibility Expert, Loxandra, Ma Jie, Eric Roset, photographe, In the Mood for Food, Tea Appreciation Society™, Peter and Fevronia Muron, the loudest sound and nothing, Matt Haimovitz, Giovanni Arduino, Richard McCann, Liu Fang 劉芳, Ziya Tabassian, William Lane, Saeed Kamjoo, Clea, Maya Beiser, Amy
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