MUSIC & DANCE

I went for a Pat Metheny talk last nite and a concert the night before by Nguyen Le. Pat plays jazz and whatever takes his fancy and Nguyen’s the same although their styles are very different; Nguyen is now being watched as a Hendrix revivalist - he takes Hendrix’s music into another plane.
Both […]

I came to the realisation recently that the art of cooking combines the static arts (painting, sculpture etc) with the kinetic (dance, music etc).
The prep part of cooking is the static; you make sure everything is chopped up right, that you have your, as Anthony Bourdain calls it, “mise en place”.
When you do […]