Sweet Love Preserve from Nostradamus.

Saveurs du monde.net published the Sweet Love Preserve recipe for Saint Valentine Day. I took the liberty of translating it because I think it's interesting and also it should taste very good. Enjoy!

"Physician and alchemist, famous in the Renaissance times, Nostradamus published a Treaty of preserves where the following recipe is included 'for those females whose frigid womb makes them inadequate for conception and the satisfaction of legitimate appetites'.

Ingredients

- 1 kg of honey from the mountains

- 300 g of fresh ginger root

Preparation

1. Peel and clean the ginger; cut it in fine sticks, wash them several times;
2. Place in a pot and cover with water; boil 10 min.;
3. drain; and restart the process 2 more times boiling 10 min. and one last time boiling 20 min.;
4. drain all night;
5. in a pot with a heavy-base, boil the ginger in the honey during 15 min.;
6. boil it again next day and the following day always only for 15 min.;
7. Save it in a glass jar and have one soup spoonful when you need to recover your ardor."

Austinians freeway solidarity

I amaze at the solidarity of Austinians in the freeway. I spent 75 minutes to go from Round Rock to downtown Austin today. Why? Simple solidarity, I call it. A car had had an accident on the entrance ramp from 183 into I35 and the police was present. So, everybody else drove at -5 miles an hour just to take a look at the scene. Nice, the public was regretting not having the TV handy, and very happy to be able to watch live!
I remember a couple of months ago when there was a building fire by the I35 freeway and the traffic had slowed down from Round Rock on going south at rush hour. Everybody felt so much solidarity with the owner and inhabitants that they have to slow down to take a little look at the fire and/or what was left from the house!

Yes, I agree, everything in Austin is so... weird!

groupo de rua, or where is the music?

 

groupo de rua

My son (21) and I went to the Hogg Memorial Auditorium, in UT Austin, last night to see Groupo de Rua. After half an hour of watching open mouthed 9 people writhing on stage like madmen accompanied by dead silence, we looked at each other with a question mark face: and the music? 

I guess their work reflects the depressing street life, where all young people can do is entertain themselves using their own bodies to express their lack of everything else. These 9 men's gloomy -even grim- faces, and awkward body movements send all the negativity, sadness and desempowerness' vibes from a life without hope, full of obstacles and standbyness that make it almost empty, stagnant, which was well transmitted by the vacuum of music. It made me think of the same impression I got every time I saw En attendant Godot (Waiting for Godot) by Samuel Beckett. With the only difference that Vladimir and Estragon actually made me laugh even in spite of their tragic frustrating quest. Well, I may not be the only one having a hard time understanding some phenomena of our modern society, am I? Follow the link under the pic to read a different review and this other comment on their multiple presentations around the world.

The House of Sand

Some people are never happy with the place where they live, or they're always looking for something else, or always wanting to go back "home". The movie The House of Sand takes the audience in the journey of two women trying to escape their "house of sand", the challenge of their lives, only to find out that happiness is not somewhere in a longed for place, but in themselves. What's important is not the place where we live, or the circumstances around, but what we do with what we have.
"Man went to the Moon -María says- only to find more sand!" A film to be watched and thought about.