On my way into the USA, I spent a couple of nights with my friend, Vince, who hosted me in his mansion. We always have fun eating and drinking too much together. Vince does all the cooking, but it’s okay because I make up for it by doing most of the eating. He is an accomplished amateur chef who has been highly inspired by Anthony Bourdain to both travel the world and become an excellent cook. When I’m lucky, Vince fires up his backyard brick oven to grill steaks or takes out his salt slab to bake chocolate chip cookies. Tiberius (Ti) and Augustus (Gus), Vince’s two Beauceron dogs, are always the additional members of the party. Thanks again for hosting me, Vince. My time at your house really feels like I’m at home, and it gives me insight and awareness into the lifestyle I have forgone (sacrificed?) in order to navigate my own path in life. You are a positive affirmation and influence that someday I might find my own peaceful and happy place with two dogs and an outside brick oven where I can be content to live and also stay.
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I have been anticipating spending Thanksgiving with my relatives in Georgia for years and was finally able make it happen en route back to Denver, Colorado. Special thanks to April and her boyfriend Vince for hosting me for a weekend of sight-seeing and barbeque eating in Kirkwood — a neighborhood of Atlanta very reminiscent of my home back on the outskirts of Denver. Both are industrial, warehouse districts with train tracks crossing them that have undergone gentrification over the past several years as new cool cafes and restaurants spring up. A personal highlight of the weekend was eating pecans fallen from the backyard tree. I created a monstrosity of a coffee by creating a grinded coconut milk infusion for my morning coffee. After that I headed about an hour south of the city to Brooks, Georgia, a very small town where my father’s first cousin lives with his wife. I spent twelve days here working from my computer on their kitchen table, eating a lot of Andy and Susan’s food and disrupting the organization and serving of breakfast, lunch and dinner. In addition to helping with that, I was perhaps the most dull houseguest they have ever had the pleasure […]
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