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Saturday, June 29, 2019

This Week

The Transformation   My favorite cook as a person and as a cook is Thomas Keller. His restaurants are The French Laundry in California and Per Se in New York. There is a book, "The Soul of a Chef" by Michael Ruhlman, that has several chapters at the end, Actually the last 1/3 of the book, about Keller and The French Laundry (it's a great book). I'm really interested in Keller for 2 reasons. 1st, I like to cook (its therapy) and I've done a bunch of things out of ... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, June 29, 2019

Saturday, June 22, 2019

This Week

Walking on Water: Grace I read a book once called "Walking on Water". It's about an elite Pediatric Surgical Unit. They mostly do heart surgery. The head surgeon is Roger Mee. These guys are doing heart surgery, bypasses, transplants, fixes on week old babies. So everything is smaller, and faster and more precise. In one part of the book they ask one of the surgeons if his goal is to do everything perfectly. He said : "A surgeon's quest is not for perfection but f... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, June 22, 2019

Saturday, June 15, 2019

This Week

Yogi, Golf, and The French Laundry If you've ever seen the PBS special by Ken Burns on Baseball you may remember this. They told a story about Yogi Berra when he was still in school. He had just flunked a test and the teacher came up to him and said "Yogi you don't know anything, do you?" And Yogi said "Know anything? I don't even suspect anything!"  She was telling him that he wasn't very smart and he was telling her that he was smart enough to not... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, June 15, 2019

Saturday, June 8, 2019

This Week

Ricky and Hal - One day in the life of Hope One of my favorite movies is "Regarding Henry" (Harrison Ford, Annette Bening).  It's the story about a big time lawyer (Harrison Ford = Henry) that everyone hates. He goes into a store to buy something and gets shot in the head by a guy robbing the place. When Henry wakes up in the hospital he can't remember anything, can't walk, doesn't recognize his wife or his kid and mostly has to start all over again. He turns... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, June 8, 2019