最近开始纠结起食材，先从三文鱼说起。大鱼吃小鱼，小鱼吃虾米，虾米吃屎。三文鱼吃虾米，是食物链中段的“小”鱼，比起鲫鱼要肥硕很多，比起鲨鱼就是小不拉子。三文鱼含汞量偏低，富含omega-3，绝对是天然补品。然而，人工养殖和野生三文鱼有着天壤之别。野生三文鱼主要吃虾米，肉色橘红也是因为虾米。人工养殖的可没那么好待遇，天天喂虾米很贵的好不好，所以都是大豆类饲料，或鸡肉/猪肉副产品。没虾吃的结果是肉是灰色的，得在饲料中加入人工染色剂。营养成分也打折扣，养了一身不好的膘。
再说华人超市里的活鲫鱼 (tilapia），美国养殖的，从小吃屎长大。含汞量可以忽略不计，但营养成分等同肯德鸡。更可怕的是廉价的冰冻鱼柳，请睁大眼睛瞧瞧是不是越南进口，有新闻曝光说这些Basa鱼柳主要产于越南肮脏的湄公河。花5美刀品尝臭水沟特产？No thank you. 下次去华人餐馆点酸菜鱼之前请三思，目前为止我还没在美国吃过用活鱼做的酸菜鱼，清一色冰冻鱼柳。
知道的太多再下馆子点菜，真个人都不好了。
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Thursday, April 07, 2016
略微惆怅的初春
3月20日春分的那天，我们去纽约林肯中心约李健。那天飘起了雪，中央公园瞧不见一朵花。
回到波士顿不久，这里连下了两场大雪。小破车裹得像个白馒头，身为大厨的我。。。完全没有动力出门买菜。雪后天晴，中国城牌坊上的积雪蠢动了松弛了，从十米高的琉璃瓦上成堆的滑落，遭遇冰桶挑战的无辜行人敏捷的闪躲开来。
本是兰花和水仙的花季，招摇的色彩嘚瑟了不到一周就被大雪打趴，花骨朵湿透了身伏地不起，像是刚从冰箱里拿出来化冻的过期物品。大雪也好，亦是火星撞地球，它也会不顾一切的盛开，只为身为一朵花，活在这一刻。如果我也能用不可抗力的借口原谅自己做出的各种选择，真的也不必再如果了。
十年前买的CD/ipod播放机不明原因“失声”，虽然不值几个钱，却也找不到可替代的产品，也有种再也找不着小时候心爱玩具的失落感。最近重温了大学时代沉迷过的音乐，GC、sleepy.ab等，发现还是非常喜欢，惊讶自己也没多大变化。虽然臭皮囊不再富含胶原蛋白，内心还保留了很多原厂配置。音乐绝对是现实版的时光机，和十年前的自己再次相遇，看到一个骚柔的傻瓜。。。那个影子穿越时空拥抱自己，心里渐渐温暖。
下周准备开车去DC看樱花，略错过旺期，不要光秃秃就行。网购了两袋盐津樱花，准备尝试做樱花味布丁，下次再更新成果啦。
回到波士顿不久，这里连下了两场大雪。小破车裹得像个白馒头，身为大厨的我。。。完全没有动力出门买菜。雪后天晴，中国城牌坊上的积雪蠢动了松弛了，从十米高的琉璃瓦上成堆的滑落，遭遇冰桶挑战的无辜行人敏捷的闪躲开来。
本是兰花和水仙的花季，招摇的色彩嘚瑟了不到一周就被大雪打趴，花骨朵湿透了身伏地不起，像是刚从冰箱里拿出来化冻的过期物品。大雪也好，亦是火星撞地球，它也会不顾一切的盛开，只为身为一朵花，活在这一刻。如果我也能用不可抗力的借口原谅自己做出的各种选择，真的也不必再如果了。
十年前买的CD/ipod播放机不明原因“失声”，虽然不值几个钱，却也找不到可替代的产品，也有种再也找不着小时候心爱玩具的失落感。最近重温了大学时代沉迷过的音乐，GC、sleepy.ab等，发现还是非常喜欢，惊讶自己也没多大变化。虽然臭皮囊不再富含胶原蛋白，内心还保留了很多原厂配置。音乐绝对是现实版的时光机，和十年前的自己再次相遇，看到一个骚柔的傻瓜。。。那个影子穿越时空拥抱自己，心里渐渐温暖。
下周准备开车去DC看樱花，略错过旺期，不要光秃秃就行。网购了两袋盐津樱花，准备尝试做樱花味布丁，下次再更新成果啦。
Friday, January 15, 2016
Harry Potter Page to Screen: Thoughts and excerpts
Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Complete Filmmaking Journey by Bob McCabe
LM and I binge watched Harry Potter moives 1-8 during Christmas. It felt like reconnecting with a long lost friend, a very endearing friend in fact. Alan Rickman's passing was especially hard to sink in after immersing myself in the wizard world and not wanting to emerge from it. It was moving to see how fans around the world honored him, like the flowers on Platform 9 and 3/4 (image from web).
Ultimately I think the credits go to Rowling who conjured the greatest antagonist of all time. The immense impact of HP over a decade is impossible to grasp. We are talking about people growing up with it and their lives revolving around it or even defined by it. The actors were 12 when they started filming Sorcerer's Stone. Ten years flashed by when the last film was shot. Can you imagine? I was just stunned after reading Harry Potter Page to Screen. The stories from everyone involved are every bit as imaginative as the novel/film. Given another life time, I'd very much like to build models of castles and beasts... Below are some brilliant details of production. Even if some only lasted split seconds in the film, or worse still didn't even make it into the film, the sheer amount of passion is worth the highest accolade. It's a designer's dream to work on fantasy world projects.
To Alan Rickman, and Professor Snape. Always.
LM and I binge watched Harry Potter moives 1-8 during Christmas. It felt like reconnecting with a long lost friend, a very endearing friend in fact. Alan Rickman's passing was especially hard to sink in after immersing myself in the wizard world and not wanting to emerge from it. It was moving to see how fans around the world honored him, like the flowers on Platform 9 and 3/4 (image from web).
Ultimately I think the credits go to Rowling who conjured the greatest antagonist of all time. The immense impact of HP over a decade is impossible to grasp. We are talking about people growing up with it and their lives revolving around it or even defined by it. The actors were 12 when they started filming Sorcerer's Stone. Ten years flashed by when the last film was shot. Can you imagine? I was just stunned after reading Harry Potter Page to Screen. The stories from everyone involved are every bit as imaginative as the novel/film. Given another life time, I'd very much like to build models of castles and beasts... Below are some brilliant details of production. Even if some only lasted split seconds in the film, or worse still didn't even make it into the film, the sheer amount of passion is worth the highest accolade. It's a designer's dream to work on fantasy world projects.
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| A map of Hogwarts like it's a real, breathing thing. |
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| Model of Hogwarts. Top left are miniature owls made for the owlery. |
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| A wintry Hogwarts achieved by sprinkling salt as fake snow. All the more painstaking to vacuum it without destroying the delicate structures. |
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| Model of Diagon Alley shops, with their miniature candy shelves, cages and lamps. |
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| Diagon Alley concept art. It's both real (based on colonial architecture) and surreal (nothing is quite straight). |
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| Basilisk model, fitting skin over frame |
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| Plates of animated cats in Umbridge's office. There were 30-40 photo shoots of different cats in muggle or wizard settings. |
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| Design of Quidditch costume, considerations of how to make it sporty yet medieval. |
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| Design of Hermione's Yule Ball gown which shows a coming-of-age femininity |
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| Prof. Snape wasn't always brooding. |
Wednesday, January 06, 2016
2016 New Year's Resolution
To start off - Happy New Year to me and you.
I've always loved counting down to the first day of a new year, a fresh start that gives the illusion of wiping all past misdemeanors clean. Excited by the magic of an open chapter, I promised myself loads of resolutions in the first week such as getting up early (by early I mean before 8:30), breaking up with social networking sites or my cell phone, ample reading writing and drawing etc. - Who are you kidding really?? The fact that I'm waiting for Jan 1st to start changing habits means I'm a perpetual failure. I'll be soooooo looking forward to the significance of public holidays fading away... because why not start right here right now, wherever and whenever.
'New Year's resolution is about managing disappointments.' by John Oliver
I've always loved counting down to the first day of a new year, a fresh start that gives the illusion of wiping all past misdemeanors clean. Excited by the magic of an open chapter, I promised myself loads of resolutions in the first week such as getting up early (by early I mean before 8:30), breaking up with social networking sites or my cell phone, ample reading writing and drawing etc. - Who are you kidding really?? The fact that I'm waiting for Jan 1st to start changing habits means I'm a perpetual failure. I'll be soooooo looking forward to the significance of public holidays fading away... because why not start right here right now, wherever and whenever.
'New Year's resolution is about managing disappointments.' by John Oliver
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