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Cooking through the fourth wall

November 30, 2014 by antdina

Ferris Bueller tells us to “go home, it’s over.” The stage manager explains what is about to happen in Our Town. Hamlet acknowledges that we’re watching. All examples when the fourth wall is broken: when a character in a show speaks directly to us. Their eyes meet ours and we are no longer pious spectators. We participate. Our reaction speaks back to them. Cooking is performance art. And yet it’s a hidden drama. For unless you have the chef’s table, the […]

Categories: Pioneer • Tags: fourth wall, grill, Pieous, Qui, Salty Sow, sea bream, Shakespeare, smoke, tableside, theater, white oak

When the soprano kissed the coalman

November 24, 2014 by antdina

She steps through theater air. Her hair, a radiant gold, swaying like an Tupelo porch swing. Her voice piercing and melodic. Notes of apricot and honeydew hang like ornaments. She smells of honeysuckle and wears a glycerin smile. Her name Tokaj (“toe-kye”). She is born from northeastern Hungary. Her audience often summoned by royal degree. He is a man of the inner mountain with large, thick hands. The mere sight of them a humbles us with thoughts of heavy work […]

Categories: Pioneer • Tags: coalman, kiss, pastrami, Pieous, Princess Bride, soprano, storytelling, Tokaj, wine

Some assembly required

August 10, 2014 by antdina

Ikea represents more than a big box retailer at the edge of town. It’s more than an ode to Sweden or contemporary design. Or the continuously cost-cutting enterprise flagged in yellow and blue. It’s the firm that put the buyer into their factory. You might argue that unassembled furniture is much more compact. And that efficiency of space lowers the cost of goods sold. But an artist’s mind is at work. By inviting it’s customer to join in on production, they […]

Categories: Design • Tags: appetizer, bahn mi, cheese, Dahlia Lounge, Pieous, salame, salami, sampler, self service, South Congress Cafe, tuna tacos, Zocalo

If you want to succeed, get the frame right

July 28, 2013 by antdina

Travel the Natural History Museum in New York and it will focus the mind on the evolution of things. Begin on the fourth floor where dinosaurs live. Curators designed the permanent exhibit as walk through millennial time. It shows the progress of species by the only evidence we have: the bones left behind. Scientists point our attention to the hole in the pelvis. This evolution provides a socket for the thigh bone and greater mobility on land. Or consider the shift […]

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Cooking through the fourth wall

When the soprano kissed the coalman

Some assembly required

If you want to succeed, get the frame right