Madeleines
Madeleines
Madeleines. Delicate, buttery puffy cookies to inspire thinking while digesting David Amerland's Sunday Read https://goo.gl/n5B6Nb and going down all the rabbit holes, like music composed from algorithms of the world's novels.
The chocolate dipped ones are for Oleg Moskalensky. :)
Recipe http://goo.gl/rg5DLI
Marcel Proust's reflections on madeleines in À la recherche du temps perdu
And as soon as I had recognized the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town, from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands, the country roads we took when it was fine. And as in the game wherein the Japanese amuse themselves by filling a porcelain bowl with water and steeping in it little pieces of paper which until then are without character or form, but, the moment they become wet, stretch and twist and take on colour and distinctive shape, become flowers or houses or people, solid and recognizable, so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and its surroundings, taking shape and solidity, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea.
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past. Volume 1: Swann's Way: Within a Budding Grove.
#ministryofdelectables #madeleines #MarcelProust #SundayRead
Madeleines. Delicate, buttery puffy cookies to inspire thinking while digesting David Amerland's Sunday Read https://goo.gl/n5B6Nb and going down all the rabbit holes, like music composed from algorithms of the world's novels.
The chocolate dipped ones are for Oleg Moskalensky. :)
Recipe http://goo.gl/rg5DLI
Marcel Proust's reflections on madeleines in À la recherche du temps perdu
And as soon as I had recognized the taste of the piece of madeleine soaked in her decoction of lime-blossom which my aunt used to give me (although I did not yet know and must long postpone the discovery of why this memory made me so happy) immediately the old grey house upon the street, where her room was, rose up like a stage set to attach itself to the little pavilion opening on to the garden which had been built out behind it for my parents (the isolated segment which until that moment had been all that I could see); and with the house the town, from morning to night and in all weathers, the Square where I used to be sent before lunch, the streets along which I used to run errands, the country roads we took when it was fine. And as in the game wherein the Japanese amuse themselves by filling a porcelain bowl with water and steeping in it little pieces of paper which until then are without character or form, but, the moment they become wet, stretch and twist and take on colour and distinctive shape, become flowers or houses or people, solid and recognizable, so in that moment all the flowers in our garden and in M. Swann's park, and the water-lilies on the Vivonne and the good folk of the village and their little dwellings and the parish church and the whole of Combray and its surroundings, taking shape and solidity, sprang into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea.
Marcel Proust
Remembrance of Things Past. Volume 1: Swann's Way: Within a Budding Grove.
#ministryofdelectables #madeleines #MarcelProust #SundayRead
They have to become the #brainfood of choice Zara Altair :)
ReplyDeleteThis was right under your post in my stream.
ReplyDeleteIt's madeleine synchronicity day!
https://plus.google.com/+AaronWood77/posts/PtznA7cH5eX
David Amerland There you go. #neuralupgrade :)
ReplyDeleteJodi Kaplan Amazing synchronicity!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Zara Altair. They look very potent. I could act on emotion and consume all of the ones shown, but since I'm biased when it comes to logic - I'll just eat the chocolate-covered ones. Thanks again! :)
ReplyDeleteOleg Moskalensky LOL! You see how powerful the Sunday Read is. David Amerland shapes our thinking down to the level of cookie selection.
ReplyDeleteI think Security needs to assure that everyone understands this subtle power. :)
As much as I'd love to give credit to David Amerland here - he hasn't shifted my thinking when it comes to these things - I've always had them, likely part of my DNA, Zara Altair. I was simply commenting with his current #SundayRead in context, since it fits.
ReplyDeleteAnd who knows, perhaps if David Amerland finally does show his smiling face at my doorstep - we might just take a leisurely drive to Oregon to see you, provided he isn't emotionally overwhelmed with seeing me in person.. ;)
Oleg Moskalensky If you take the drive I will be emotionally overwhelmed!!!
ReplyDeleteIt will totally depend on the logic at the time, Zara Altair :)
ReplyDeleteOleg Moskalensky :)
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