Monday, July 20

Another Double Tasting Day

School slipped by like a hazy dream, did some baby shopping, then kicked it with B&Edie. Edie is definitely growing, and getting more aggressive with her crying, but I'm starting to get a handle on talking to her in a tone that seems to settle her (after the diaper check, the finger in the mouth check, the holding up-right check, etc)

E had a spare ticket to a screening of a beer documentary with a matching beer and cheese tasting in southern Park Slope, so I joined her. I like indie beer, but I don't think the tap system at this place was cared for properly, all the beer tasted soapy to me. And the cheese was at above room-temp for too long, it was all sweaty. The film was a nice recap of some of the history I learned in class, and seeing a person struggling to start her own new indie brand is kind of the backbone culinary management tried to instill in us, though really, no class can teach that kind of motivation -- you either got it or ya don't.

BREAKFAST: 7am, organic cheerios with good milk, minted lemonade, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Finished the lemonade, or it would of been funky by the end of the day.

AM SNACK: 11am, apple fritter, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Maybe my last am school snack from Starbucks in this lifetime. With McDonald's McCafe open right next door and Starbuck's business crumbling in the recession, maybe Edie will never know the crappiness known as Starblechs.

AM TASTING: 6 sparkling wines, goat cheese and french bread

LUNCH: 3pm, watermelon, left over pad thai, .75 bowl, hunger 4/5

DINNER: 5:45pm, green salad topped with sauteed shrimp, water, blueberry muffin, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5
Wanted to get something in before going off to a tasting that might not be kind to an empty stomach...

EVENING TASTING:
8:30pm, a few mouthfuls of fneh beer, a few bites of fneh cheese, half a small chili pot pie, .5 bowl, hunger 3/5

EVENING SNACK:
11:30pm, hotdog, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

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