[491] in Vegetarian_Support_Group
Re: Sacrifice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Collins)
Tue Apr 11 12:33:53 1995
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:37:02 -0500
To: vsg@MIT.EDU
From: jxc7@psu.edu (James Collins)
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:28:59 -0500
>To:lmtancre@MIT.EDU
>From:jxc7@psu.edu (James Collins)
>Subject:Re: Sacrifice
>
>Lucy,
>
>Is it the "Corner Room" to which you are refering? I'm sure that it is. I'll
>cook at home, thank you. We have all you can eat vegetarian pasta at home. We
>make it fresh. Extra extra virgin olive oil. Fresh ground Parmasian cheese.
>Sun dried tomatoes imported from Italy. Garlic. Great pasta is fun to make at
>home. Why go out for it. However, great Thai cuisine at home is something
>else. Trust me, I have done it. I took a Thai cooking class from a woman that
>taught home economics at a university in northern Thailand. Her husband was
>here getting his doctorate. She cooked for dignitaries in small intimate
>groups as well as large banquets for hundreds of hungry food "know-it-alls". I
>learned a lot about Thai cooking and culture from her. I cooked in her
>kitchen, with authentic ingredients from scratch. I ate great while she was
>here. I miss her. I love her. I still can't make it taste the way she did. It
>is a real balancing act. A pivot point of flavor that hovers in zero gravity.
>I want great Asian cooking in State College and no
>"All-you-can-eat-pasta-for-5-dollars" will do it for me. Kanja come back. And
>bring your galingle root with you.
>
>Yours truly,
>
>The Cry Baby
>
>
>>i had a friend at penn state who i visited once - there was a place
>>("the corner" maybe?) that had all-=you-can-eat pasta for $5 every
>>monday (something like that). small consolation perhaps, but worth
>>looking into. could be a fun group trip, and you dont even have to find
>>only vegetarians for that one...
>>
>>-lucy
>>
>
>>
>>> Hi Dinners,
>>>
>>> I'm out here in the middle of rural Pennsylvania. Penn State. Geographic
>>> center of this land of William Penn and Benjamin Franklin. Surrounded by
>>> 300 miles of bovine filled landscape. We don't have any vegetarian
>>> restaurants now. We once did, it burned down and was never replaced. I
>>> think the owner may have moved to Coolige Corner. More sadly, we have no
>>> Thai eaterie. I miss the Veggie Pad thai and lemon grass soup. The crunch
>>> of galingle. The aroma of Thai Basil. The warm flavour of Kaffir Lime. The
>>> childlike charm and excess of Sri Racha. We have as lot of pizza. Only at
>>> home are we able to indulge our gustatorial curiosities. When I read your
>>> culinary correspondences, delivered daily to my mail box, so spontaneous,
>>> intimate, and filled with the knowledge that at any time you can pack off
>>> and meet companions at some wonderful dinning spot to satisfy your desires,
>>> I feel empty. Envious. I want what you want. I want to smell what you
>>> smell. Taste what you taste. I want to mime your every gesture and share in
>>> the warm glow of the feast. I'll even order what you order. I have no
>>> shame. However, I do have guilt. And it is because of this guilt that I
>>> feel I must be marginalized. Cut off. Removed from the list once and for
>>> all. Only in this way can the group survive, in peace and happiness.
>>> Uncontaminated by my bum trip. So, I beg of you, cut the cord, cast me
>>> adrift. Let me go. It's really the best thing. Take heart that I may, from
>>> time to time, wander amoungst you as a "Lurker". I'll miss you all. Bon
>>> Appetit .
>>>
>>> James
>>>
>>>
>
