[TheForge] ABANA meeting

[Saint Phlip]

Sounds good to me ;-) I fwded it along to Paul, see what he says ;-)

On 6/22/06, Ries Niemi <rniemi at fidalgo.net> wrote:
> This is the northwest- home of the greatest food materials in the
> world, in my not so humble opinion.
> Salmon is the fish to eat around here- its copper river time right now,
> but that will end soon, but there are still good Alaskan Kings
> available- not cheap, no, but ambrosia nonetheless.
> I will see if I cant nuudge my friend the fisherman, but if not, a
> salmon is still well worth buying, down at the public market.
>
> The other thing that is pretty darn good and local is the sausages-
> Mario Batali, the big deal New York chef with all the TV shows- well,
> his dad has a little place in downtown Seattle called Salumi- and he
> makes the best sausages this side of Italy.
>
> Both the salmon and the sausages are easy and quick to cook, and will
> beat hands down any supermarket meat department type stuff you can
> find.
>
> I will be giving my talk on Friday, at 11 Am, and I want to hang around
> for Phillip Baldwins talk at 2pm, but after that, maybe I could take
> Phlip down to "The Market", as I will have a car and know the town. We
> could hit it at 4 or so in the afternoon, and still have time to cook.
> In Seattle, "The Market" means the Pike Place market, and it is
> amazing. Every food you can imagine, fresh and good.
> Including the very first Starbucks store, no good any more, of course,
> since they went corporate in 82 or so, but there nonetheless.
>
> ries
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:
>
> > OK, been talking with Paul (our host) and the Sandbox. Anybody have
> > any objections if I invite the members of the Sandbox Artmetal List as
> > well? Several of us belong to both Lists, and from the response here,
> > we should have enough room.
> >
> > So far, it looks like Friday's the best time. Any comments?
> >
> > And, talking to Paul, he says that steaks are awfully expensive up
> > there- $5.00 gets you a small, not very good one. That being the case,
> > he suggested lamb, or fish, as the meat- both are fairly inexpensive.
> > Or, we can ask a donation- $10-15 per person reasonable?
> >
> > Need feedback, folks, so let me know what you think.
> >
> > --
> > Saint Phlip
> >
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> >
> > The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful corpse,
> > pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly used
> > up, totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"
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Saint Phlip

Don't like getting old? Beats the Hel out of the alternative.

The purpose of life is not to arrive at the grave, a beautiful corpse,
pretty and well-preserved, but to slide in sideways, thoroughly used
up, totally worn out, proclaiming, "Wow! What a ride!"