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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

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Introducing Taco as a verb

October 6, 2013 by antdina

Shakespeare once again stirs up controversy. Scholars now debate the number of words he coined.  The current argument places the bard’s inventiveness at 1700 unique words. This down from 3200. Somewhere an English major weeps. However, this is not heart of the matter. While computers running statistical algorithms may have reduced the quantitative measure of Shakespeare’s invention, they have left his qualitative genius in tact. William turned nouns into verbs. And in doing so, we are struck with the familiar […]

Categories: Design • Tags: Austin, eating, Hamlet, Jeffrey M. Pilcher, Mexico, Moo-shu, National Taco Day, Navajo, New York Times, Ortega, puffy taco, Shakespeare, street food, street vendor, swordfish, taco, Taco Bell, Taco Deli, Taco love, Tex-Mex, tortilla, tuna, wrap

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