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Provost posts communication on the 2013-14 budget

June 14, 2013

A new communication outlining the development of the university’s 2013-14 budget, which was approved by the Board of Trustees on May 10, has been posted to the Provost’s website.

Drafted by the Provost and Vice-Principal (Academic) Alan Harrison, working with the Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Budget, the document outlines how the new budget model determines the allocation of resources in the budget.

“The new budget model promotes transparency,” says Provost Harrison, “in which context I hope this document makes clear to all how the budget was developed.”

Although the 2013-14 budget is balanced, the university faces significant financial pressures that will make it ever more challenging to maintain a balanced budget in the future. Specifically, the Ontario government is reducing per-student operating grants, has capped tuition increases at three per cent per year for the next four years, and has not made any incremental funding available for deferred maintenance or new capital projects.

In addition, the current situation of the Queen’s Pension Plan means the university could face the need to make solvency payments of $35 million annually beginning in 2015.

“With revenue curtailed, a deferred maintenance liability rapidly approaching $250 million, and significant injections of cash into the pension plan on the horizon, the university is going to have to be very cautious financially,” says Provost Harrison. “The new budget model and the processes associated with it will help us maintain financial sustainability and protect the university’s core teaching and research missions.

With the 2013-14 budget now approved, the budget planning process for 2014-2015 and the subsequent two year is about to start. That process will include a number of efforts aimed at containing the university’s operating costs.

The Provost will make a presentation on the approved 2013-14 budget at 1:30 pm on Tuesday, June 18 in the Ellis Hall auditorium.

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The Long Vigil

By Jerome Charyn

170 pp. Yale University Press. $24.

The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One

By Mark Kurlansky

164 pp. Yale University Press. $25.

Yale University Press, the pre-eminent academic publishing house, founded in 1908 by George Parmly Day, decided to roll out two books on baseball in the same month of 2011. Who wants to tell the Mayans their calendar is a year off?

What seems as promising as spring training for a Mariners fan ends up in a doubleheader split. Both books are remarkably economical biographies, but Mark Kurlansky's scholarly slice of Hank Greenberg is always winning, while the novelist Jerome Charyn's earnest attempt to restore Joe DiMaggio to his former untouchable perch falls in the final innings.

''Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil'' is Charyn's affectionate defense of his idol and an answer to what he clearly feels is the bullying DiMaggio has taken in print since his death in 1999. The effort is noble, the writing at times soaring (''a man who had no language outside the lyricism of his own body''), but the execution is pure term paper. Footnoted to within an inch of its life (210 notes in 146 pages of text), the book contains one interview by the author. One. It's Mr. Coffee to go.

Part I, ''The Player,'' gallops through DiMaggio's Yankee career, which began in adulation in 1936, when he was carried in on the shoulders of Italian-Americans (who then made up 17 percent of New York City's population), and breezed on despite a wounded heel and Yankee Stadium's unforgiving dimensions for right-handed hitters. That is, until 1951, when DiMaggio was bedeviled by the first of two M.M.'s, a fleet rookie outfielder from Oklahoma.

That DiMaggio once boycotted his Batcave at Toots Shor's after he saw a photo/graph of the owner with his arm around Mickey Mantle is preface and portent for Part II, ''The Demon Lover,'' which centers on DiMaggio's 274-day marriage to Marilyn Monroe and the ensuing wreckage. In his 1966 Esquire magazine Tour de Joe D., ''The Silent Season of a Hero,'' Gay Talese refers to Oscar Levant, who said their union ''proved that no man could be a success in two national pastimes.'' But that line has no ibid. in this thesis, as Charyn coughs up conjecture that had Marilyn not had the bad taste to die, Joe not only might have made their re/marriage work, she might have helped him reconcile with his son, Joe Jr.

Charyn interjects himself just enough to be distracting. About DiMaggio's courtship of Monroe, he says, ''Soon they were seen everywhere, but it still makes me suspicious.'' And he repeats David Halberstam's persuasive theory that DiMaggio's fame lasted so long because he was the last great hero of the radio era and was not physically reduced by TV, before adding, ''But I'm not convinced.'' You're not convinced? What about the rest of us?

The publisher positions the work as a sympathetic rebuttal to Richard Ben Cramer's withering 2000 biography, ''Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life,'' but with more than 30 footnotes citing that book, this one is more of an ad for it. You want to revise the record and change some minds?Take a lesson from ''Ghosts of Manila,'' Mark Kram's bold recasting of Ali and Frazier: interview a second guy. However impressively annotated the book is, behind the stacks of index cards is a fan seeking DiMaggio's approval. If David Fincher were filming it, the final scene would have Charyn sending a friend request.

Other than the Yale imprints -- Charyn's biography is part of the ''Icons of America'' series, and Kurlansky's belongs to the ''Jewish Lives'' series -- the only true /nexus between these books arrives on Page 112 of ''Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One.'' Kurlansky notes that Greenberg's first wife, Caral (of the Gimbel fortune), ''could not understand why Marilyn Monroe had married a man as dull as Joe DiMaggio.''

Many fewer people know the story of Greenberg, which is just one of three advantages afforded Kurlansky. The second is original research, which Kurlansky (the author of ''Salt,'' ''Cod'' and the low-sodium ''Food of a Younger Land'') is no stranger to. Twenty-four interviews.

The third is the humility of his subject. ''Humility is part of the central mystery of Hank Greenberg,'' Kurlansky concludes. ''At every juncture of his life, while his qualities and accomplishments were being celebrated, Greenberg could always be counted on to punch holes in his image, calling all the praise an exaggeration.''

In 1934, his second year in the big leagues, a mythical Hank Greenberg was created. After hitting two home runs to help the Tigers defeat the Red Sox on Rosh Hashana, he sat out a game on Yom Kippur and would be eternally feted. The following year, he broke his wrist during Game 2 of the World Series and sat out the last four games, including Game 6, which also fell on Yom Kippur. Thanks to the vagaries of the Jewish calendar, Greenberg never had to make the choice again. But the perpetual press release was written: ''He never played on Yom Kippur.''

That decision rejiggered the former Hyman Greenberg into ''a muscular 6-foot-4-inch bulwark against anti-Semitism,'' and the wrist injury ''made it possible for the legend of the religious Greenberg to flourish.'' Kurlansky adroitly weaves the reluctance with which Greenberg wore this symbolic tallit throughout his life. The Tigers hardly hungered for a star Jewish player as the Yankees did for an Italian. Louis Brandeis regarded Detroit, home to Henry Ford and Father Coughlin, as the most anti-Semitic city in the country. Nine years before Greenberg played his first game for the Tigers, Ford had run a Page 1 headline in his Dearborn Independent: ''The Peril of Baseball -- 'Too Much Jew.' ''

Against this ugly backdrop, Kurlansky is refreshingly outward-looking. Everything is put in context, especially the relationship of Jews to sports and sports to Jews as a path to assimilation. Indeed, Greenberg's first triumph was overcoming the stereotype among Jews that making a living in baseball was ''disgraceful employment.''

Kurlansky offers a wonderful section on baseball during World War II -- Greenberg was the first active major leaguer to enlist after Pearl Harbor -- when rosters were decimated. The games resembled a scrimmage at fantasy camp.

The most encyclopedic baseball historian will have to clear archive space for new information. Before his last season, with the Pirates in 1947, Greenberg negotiated a one-year non/renewable deal, circumventing baseball's slave-based reserve clause and making him essentially the game's first free agent. Later, he became a co-owner of the Indians and a major force in integrating baseball once Jackie Robinson broke the color line. In the early '50s, Greenberg signed more black players than anyone else. Twenty years later, he was one of a half-handful of baseball people to testify on behalf of Curt Flood in his suit against the reserve clause.

The best definition of humility I know is ''the ability to be inconvenienced.'' Di/Maggio spent his life burnishing his icon. Greenberg never endorsed his image and corrected it when he could; he disputed the fable that pitchers refused to throw him strikes when he was chasing Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938 (he finished with 58). That was his conflict. There was no such conflict with DiMaggio, who once considered suing Paul Simon for using his name in ''Mrs. Robinson.'' Whoa, whoa, whoa. . . .

PHOTO: Hank Greenberg and Joe DiMaggio at Yankee Stadium, September 1939. (PHOTOGRAPH FROM BETTMANN/CORBIS)


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Shalom Rav Now On Sabbatical!

indexYou may have noted that my posts on Shalom Rav have gotten fewer and more far between of late. There are many reasons for this, but the long and short of it is that I’ve decided to take a brief hiatus from my Shalom Rav postings – at least until after the Jewish High Holidays.

But don’t fret – in the remote possibility that you absolutely need to read my writing on a regular basis, you should know that I’m still posting daily poetry on my other blog, Yedid Nefesh (yes, my “Psalm a Day” project is still going strong!)  So please feel free to check in and, as always, to add your thoughts and comments.

All the best for a restful and renewing summer.

7 Comments on “Shalom Rav Now On Sabbatical!”

  1. Benyomin ach Boozie says:

    This is not good news for the Jewish people. It is especially bad news for rabbis. I, for example, went nearly a year without posting on my blog. Of course, I tend to write much longer entries than your Shalom Rav posts. On the other hand, yours show evidence of thought. Wrongheaded, yes, but thought. My suggestion is that this year we all tell our congregants, “Look—I speak twice a week, on Friday night and Saturday mornings. Most of you come twice a year. Copies of my 104 talks are in the lobby. Go pick one or two and read them. That’s the sermon this year. While you’re doing that, I am going to the facilities. Anyone want some seltzer?” (Not on Yom Kippur, of course, when only flat seltzer can be consumed, our sages having rule that drinking flat seltzer was worse that being thirsty.)

    Rather than pray for peace in the Middle East, which just ain’t happening, at least not this year, could all y’all pray that I get an android assistant rabbi? Not one of those damn Android phones—I use an iPhone made by the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I mean a real, Mr. Data android. ‘Preciate all y’alls help.

  2. Brad says:

    Maybe, you will return to Zionism after your sabbatical.

  3. Steve Hinman says:

    Enjoy your well deserved sabbatical, Rabbi Brant, from the Shalom Rav blog.

  4. Don & Laurie says:

    We want your sabbatical to refresh your soul, mind and spirit – where ever God leads…God’s Peace…

  5. Gary says:

    The paranoid part of me worries that someone is doing a “Judge Goldstone” on you. But thankfully I am sure that this is just some well deserved R&R from which you will return with fresh thoughts, insights and energy. Looking forward to your return to Shalom Rav in the fall, perhaps with your holiday sermons?

  6. May your sabbatical from this blog be sustaining and sweet.

    (And I am loving your psalm-a-day postings, even though I don’t always manage to reply to them. Kol hakavod to you for keeping that project going. Beautiful stuff.)

  7. Mike says:

    The hunger strike in California by prisoners is a total joke… how about those they stabbed, raped, killed, robbed and terrorized?
    Let them starve if you have done the crime then you do the time.
    May you return in reality … a strong Israel is a necessity for the continuation of the Jewish people.
    The Palestinians must accept the state of Israel and avow to never create terrorism and to teach their children peace and not war.

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Training week in review: 13 of 18

This week’s training theme:

If you feel like pushing the pace a little in a training run, go for it. The worst that can happen is you’ll have to slow down. But it you can handle it, you’ll get a real shot of confidence.

This past week was another case of deciding that some recovery was in order. After three weeks of banging away at between 85 and 95 miles, all that stress caught up with me. I was very tired on Monday, and was worn down mentally from needing to do so much running inside due to the weather, snow and ice.

Tuesday afternoon was the last straw. I experienced some intense side effects from my third rabies shot: a malaise that hit me like the proverbial ton of bricks about three hours after I got the shot. Unfortunately, at the time I was attempting to embark on my second speedwork session — this time inside on the treadmill — and finding that I could barely run a 12 minute mile.

Oh, our ancient washing machine also died on Tuesday afternoon. That also contributed to my foul mood and overall sense of doom.

So, after feeling really frustrated and despondent for awhile, I got over it and recast the week’s schedule to try to salvage things. I split a longer easy run into two recovery runs, leaving me with just two hard days: Wednesday and Sunday. All the rest were double recovery session days, with 60% of my mileage at dead easy pace.

One thing I couldn’t change was the weather (much as I wish I could) and its effects on the running path and roads. So, with the exception of two runs, everything was inside again this week. But today, at last, we had a hint of spring, with temperatures in the 50s. Our cat was also beset by spring fever this morning, always a sure sign that the season is turning.

This week’s centerpiece run was my last big marathon pace run. I chose to again use a race environment for support. This time around, it was the 25K (15.6 mile) Boston Buildup in Norwalk, CT. The race start was a local elementary school, where runners kept warm in the gym.

What an interesting race! It’s part of a series of races of gradually increasing length, presumably designed for people who are training for the Boston Marathon to use as training runs or tuneup races. As people began trickling into the gym, it was clear that this was a serious, accomplished crowd. It was a small race of around 200 people, and there were some very good runners there.

One side note: This is the first race I’ve run in where they actually banned headphones. I didn’t care because I never race with them (and I rarely run with them outside anymore), and no one else seemed to either. It was necessary for this race, as the roads were open.

The race was on a tough, tough course. The first 8.5 miles were uphill, with an elevation gain of around 500 feet. We were also running into a 15 mph headwind much of the time. Then, at 8.5 miles, the course headed downhill. There were still a few little, yet challenging uphill bumps, but overall it was a fast cruise downhill, and I was running a good 20-30 seconds per mile faster in the second half.

I wasn’t racing, but I had decided ahead of time to go for broke and target a pace of 7:48 minutes per mile, which is a 3:24 marathon pace. For most of the past few months I’ve been training at paces appropriate for a 3:30 race. It’s only in the last week or two that I’ve picked things up; I’m doubtful I’ll run 3:24 in April, but I’ll certainly be trying for something well under 3:30.

It was a fantastic training run. People were very spread out, but close enough that I kept a few in sight and they pulled me along. And I passed a few people over the course of the run. I was working hard, but I felt comfortable and in control of things. I could have run it faster. The miles flew by and at the finish I still felt pretty fresh, like I could have kept going. The picture above shows me just a few seconds before crossing the finish line. See how fresh I look?

The best part? I came in at 2:01:08 — a 7:48 pace, right on the nose.

Post-race, the gym resembled a war or disaster triage area. About a dozen student massage therapists had turned up to give free massages, and they had their tables all set up. When I walked in, I saw all these prone runners getting massages. It was quite impressive and distracted me from my mission of determining which was the best variety of bagel offered. There were no trophies, but Jonathan got a very nice, long-sleeve custom “Boston Building” tech tee (from Asics, the race sponsor) for coming in first in his age group. They were also giving out free copies of the book Breakthrough Running. Smart schwag!

The race organization was a little rough around the edges, with too few people running things, but it was a challenging course and a good crowd to run with. The people running the race obviously cared about putting on a good event, despite the limitations. I’ll definitely want to do that one (and perhaps others in the series) next year.*

A look back at the week:

  • Monday: 4 miles recovery pace (AM), 6 miles recovery pace (PM)
  • Tuesday: Disaster strikes after my rabies jab: 3 miles at enfeebled pace
  • Wednesday: 5 miles recovery pace (AM), 5.5 miles recovery pace (PM)
  • Thursday: 15 mile long run (steady) pace (PM), 4 miles recovery pace (PM)
  • Friday: 5 miles recovery pace (AM), 6 miles recovery pace (PM)
  • Saturday: 4.6 miles recovery pace (AM), 3.4 miles recovery pace (PM)
  • Sunday: 16 miles at marathon pace

Total mileage: 73.5 miles

Paces this week:

  • Enfeebled: 12:00+
  • Recovery: 9:50 – 11:30
  • Long: 8:44
  • Marathon: 7:48

This week’s quote:

Act like a horse. Be dumb. Just run.

— Jumbo Elliott

Coming up in training week fourteen: Another attempt at speedwork, a weekday 20 miler, and my last tuneup race before the big race in April. And my penultimate rabies shot. And a new washing machine. A very, very fast washing machine.

*They had salt bagels, too, which no one ever has. These are the best bagels to eat after a long race, when all the salt in your body has been sweated out of you, settling as a fine powder on your skin.

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  1. Hey, we ran some miles at the same pace this week!

    Hope you feel better, now. The race sounds great…

  2. […] ran this race last year, also as a training run. It was my big 15 mile Mpace training run at the time, so I ran harder last […]

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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Can you be prettier when you cry?

What the fuck, filmmakers?
Actually, it was the lack of acting she hated. "I remember when I was dying in Silver Surfer...The director was like, 'It looks too real. It looks too painful. Can you be prettier when you cry? Cry pretty, Jessica.' He was like 'Don't do that thin with your face. Just make it flat. We can CGI the tears in.'" And I'm like, But there's no connection to a human being. And then it all got me thinking: Am I not good enough? Are my instincts and my emotions not good enough? Do people hate them so much that they don't want me to be a person? Am I not allowed to be a person in my work?
--Jessica Alba in Elle

So, I found this little nugget buried in my feeds, linked from Comic Alliance, through Moviefone, to and I can't help but notice not one of these websites commented on the importance of this quote. Moviefone acknowledged that it was a valid complaint, but was too busy making jokes at her expense.

And you know what, sure, Jessica Alba has never displayed a lot of acting talent. She's easy to take potshots at. But she is telling us exactly where that Fantastic Four sequel went wrong, and where Catwoman and Elektra and other incredibly shitty takes on superheroines went wrong. This is where supporting characters like Lois Lane in Superman Returns went wrong too. From the start, from the very point where they decide "Let's cast that girl based on her appearance--then make sure to change her hair and eye color", and the writing when they don't give them worthwhile parts, and the directing where they say "We need your pain to be attractive so just be flat because that's prettier" -- They don't treat female characters like people. The makers of these films aren't considering those the parts of people. Even when they DO hire an oscar winner, they don't write for her or direct her like they're writing for or directing a person. They're writing for and directing pinups. They think all they need someone who looks hot on the poster and a computer can do the rest. Then when it doesn't work, they say women don't work. After they made it not work.

When you figure all the lead woman in your film can be is window dressing, and you don't pick the best actress (and instead chose the sexpot who's natural looks you're going to cover with appearance and alter with CGI anyway), and you don't write a strong part for her (because you didn't pick a good actress who can carry it, or you'd rather write the men, or you don't feel comfortable with a heroic woman), and you don't encourage the actress to give her best in the role (because strong emotions aren't pretty, because you didn't pick a good actress to begin with so why bother), and you go as far to as to cut down on the humanity of a moment in order to make it more sexually palatable, then your movie sucks. This is why your movies suck, Hollywood. Not because your lead is female, not because your actress sucks (that's actually your fault because you morons hired the sucky actress and are actively trying to make her suck more), but because you've decided your lead isn't a human being. It's not female action heroes who suck, Hollywood, it's you.

(And by the way, if you comment anything to the effect of "Jessica Alba is just a bad actress trying to excuse her bad acting" that makes you an idiot who missed what I'm mad about. And an asshole too.)

  1. I first saw Jessica Alba on the Flipper remake (I think there were two remakes and I don't recall the title of the first one, but it starred Brian Wimmer as Bud.) and for a teen actress, she was pretty good. Then she did Dark Angel and I liked her in that. Then she started making movies and things seem to have gone downhill from there.

    I suppose the points you bring out might have something to do with her fairly erratic career post-Dark Angel. She's not being cast properly. She's not working with good directors who can bring out her best. She's not being cast in smaller, supporting roles with better known, better experienced actors she can learn from. And now, given the larger than life roles and the prominence of her roles in movies, I wonder if she'd be willing to backtrack and try to get roles where she could step back and learn.

    Hollywood helped create the mess her career has become. And that's sad, because I think she had potential.

  2. This sums up a lot of what's wrong with comics, too. I went on a rant--mostly on Twitter--a year and change ago about how much I hate the habit of twisting dead or severely injured women into pin-up poses, or at least making sure their tits and ass are as visible as possible. The reigning wisdom that women--real or fictional--are defined by attractiveness before all else definitely isn't confined to media featuring live (I balk at saying "real," for the reasons you beautifully enumerate above) women.

  3. Your take on that Alba piece - and the general commentary it brought - is just the same as mine. Thank you for writing it.

  4. I certainly agree that that's an outrageous bit of direction. I know there's a lot of talk about superheroines not selling movie tickets, and you're absolutely right that they're hobbling those heroines from the start and then saying they can't run. But was the line on Fantastic Four that the woman made it not work? I don't remember ANYTHING in the FF movies working, and I don't remember the male roles being any better than hers. It was all flash and preening and lack of substance. I was a little surprised when I saw Ioan Gruffudd later on in another movie that wasn't entirely dependent on how pretty he was.

  5. Brilliantly said. It's not just superhero movies, either.

  6. I agree, though I think in the case of "Elektra" it was more shitty marketing than anything. It had a really good female mentor/female student relationship (which is rare) and a good basic story with a whole lot of crap shoehorned in to look good in the previews and attract the teenage boy market. Then there were the "stare all you want" posters. This movie should have stuck to its central story - about a woman mentoring a magical girl - and gone for the female market.

  7. Julie Benz (Angel, Dexter) would have been a much better Sue than Alba. But if that's the directing she would have had to deal with, it wouldn't have been worth it.

    Based on the Green Lantern trailer, I can think of another case in point: Blake Lively as Carol Ferris. All us GL fans have our own ideas of what Carol Farris is like, but Lively in the trailer comes off more as someone who would be getting coffee for Carol Ferris rather than as Carol Ferris herself. "Gee, dye her hair, THAT'LL solve the problem." WRONG!

  8. Also, Malin Ackerman in "Watchmen". Laurie in the book was its heart and soul, but in the movie she was mostly a cipher.

  9. My impression of Blake Lively in the GL trailer was that they had not hired an actress, just someone able to read a teleprompter. The problem with Alba's Sue Storm wasn't Alba's lack of acting skills; it started with a script that went out of its way to do the "Sue's nekkid!" bit, and kept circling the toilet for two hours. I don't know that Alba could've saved the part if she put in an Oscar-worthy performance.

    -- Jack of Spades

  10. yes prettiness takes priority over performance - and then we wonder why a film with women leads does not do well... it does not help that most of these films are written by men - who most of the time do not know how women speak - so the lines of dialogue are soooo bad/stupid that even the best actor in the world cannot make them sound good.

  11. Great post. Nothing to add, just very true and very well put.

  12. I know I'm late to the party but I had to say it: And now, because Hollywood doesn't know how to treat women like people, we get a Wonder Woman TV series (which might be okay - I'm definitely watching my fave heroine for every episode)instead of a movie penned and directed by Joss Whedon, who might not be your favorite (he is mine - Firefly was the best show ever), but he has shown that he can treat women like people.


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A simple and delightful dish–stir-fried napa cabbage with dried shrimp (and straw mushrooms).

Straw mushrooms are optional but I put them into the stir-fry as I had some leftover in the fridge. Surprisingly, they transformed this humble recipe and added extra flavor, texture, and color to my stir-fried napa cabbage. I loved it!

If you are a Chinese-Malaysian or Chinese, I am sure many of you have had this dish growing up; perhaps you are still preparing it at home. It’s one of those homey dishes that reminds you of your mother’s–or your grandmother’s–cooking…

Stir-fried Napa Cabbage with Dried Shrimp and Straw MushroomsI served my napa cabbage with a dollop of garlic oil and fried garlic on top of this dish. What a great idea. It infused the serving with garlicky aroma. You should try it, too!

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Make the garlic oil first by stir-frying the chopped garlic with the cooking oil. Dish out half of it when the garlic turns golden brown.

With the remaining garlic oil in the wok, add in the dried shrimp and do a few quick stir until you smell the aroma of the dried shrimp. Add in the straw mushrooms and do a quick stir, then follow by the chopped napa cabbage. Stir fry for 1 minute and then add in the oyster sauce. Stir well and dish out the napa cabbage when it’s still somewhat “crunchy” and not over-cooked. Top the stir-fried napa cabbage with the remaining half of garlic oil. Serve immediately.

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China on! That's what's happening today with the oils and minerals flying, and while many are saying that oil is up because of Iranian supply cuts, I think it's because of scuttlebutt that the Chinese are cutting rates as early as this Sunday.

Last night I talked about how this market has got a real volleyball theme going with rotations happening very rapidly day to day. So we caught two down days of oil as the group rotated out of the server position and took to the net. Now the oils are serving, as they have time and again after a couple of down days. I think we are going to stay in this rotation mode, because every time the group gets hammered for a couple of days, we are going to catch a rumor of Chinese rate cuts, and the shorts will cover, and the longs will flock to the quickly beaten-down group.

Do I think we will get a rate cut?

I know after that Purchasing Managers Index report showed a further contraction that there's lots of chatter than China may grow only at 7%, not 8%, which is down from 12%. I would put it like this: I think it is just a matter of time before rate cuts happen, and time may include Sunday night.

This best bargains in the stock market right now may very well be the oil and gas companies that are becoming more oily by drilling in the Permian, the Bakken, the Eagleford and the Niobrara. That means buying EOG Resources (EOG), Carrizo Oil & Gas (CRZO) and Devon Energy (DVN), to name three that are making the transformation. I also like Linn Energy (LINE), a 7% yielder that's well hedged and has terrific properties all over the country.

As odd as it is, those independents have become the best way to play "China on," and if China's off, you still could make money. It's a little ridiculous, but it has worked every time since this good year began!

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    4 eggs
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    2 cups pumpkin
    1 teaspoon salt
    1 cup canola oil
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    3 cups sugar
    1 teaspoon cinnamon
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    1 teaspoon nutmeg
    2 teaspoons baking soda
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Mix all wet ingredients first and then add in the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pour into 2 large greased loaf pans or 3 medium, or 4 small loaf pans. Bake at 325 degrees for about 70 minutes (large loaves) and a little less for the medium or small loaves. Check with toothpick until comes out clean.

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DualtrackThere have been a number of wonderful blog posts debating whether this is a good or bad time to start a business.  Fundamentally, I believe that the reason the debate is occuring is because there have been some fundamental changes to the risk/reward ratio involved in business formation.

When I started my first business (Infonautics Corporation) in the early ‘90’s, the cost to “get in the game” for an IT business was $4 - 5M (ie, first round was $4M). It took that amount to buy the expensive sun hardware, build a datacenter, write the custom software, and build the appropriate infrastructure to grow a business. When I started in the late ‘90s, our first round of VC was about $2.5M – we didn’t have to build our own datacenter, hardware costs were coming down, and although we had to write custom software we were able to use development tools that made it faster and cheaper.

In recent years, however, it’s gotten much cheaper to launch a software/Internet company. The power of open-source software, cheap Intel-based servers, a plethora of robust development environments, ASP-based services to handle backoffice processes (ie, at we had to build a help desk – now startups can use an ASP) --- combined with the rise of offshore development – have dramatically reduced the costs to “get in the game”.

This allows companies to bring a product to market for much less than was previously required. Companies are able to launch a product or service for under $1M. This changes the game for the entrepreneur – primarily because of the cap table.

If a company previously needed $4M to get off the ground, they would raise venture funding – which would leave them with a post-money valuation typically between $8 and $12M. In order for the VC to get a “win”, their target return would prevent the company from ever considering an exit below, say, $100M. (ie, no early-stage VC would call an exit at $36M – or a 3x return – a “big win”). These VC economics typically led companies to work toward exits in 3-7 years – to allow them to “grow into” the valuations required by the VC.

However, if today’s entrepreneur is able to get a company off the ground with $500K - $1M, they have additional options. For example, if an entrepreneur is able to raise $500K at a $2M pre-money valuation (or a $2.5M post), they have the option of considering an exit between the $15M and $50M range. Indeed, a sale at a price of $18M would provide investors with an 8x return (assuming a 1x liquidation preference). Moreover, at valuations in the $15-50M range, acquirers are willing to buy “technologies” or “market positions” – as opposed to businesses. (ie, to justify acquisition prices of >75M companies must buy revenues and pipeline, but at lower prices acquirers are essentially making a buy-versus-build decision on a technology or market positioning).

I call this the new “dual track” option. (Where previously, dual-track refered to filing an S1 to go public with hopes of attracting an acquisition offer before your IPO). Companies can get further with seed or angel money now. Thus, in addition to looking for venture funding, entrepreneurs are now considering a strategic sale at an earlier juncture. This is a growing trend. If you look at the 30 “lightly-funded” companies (ie, companies that had not raised a large institutional venture round) that launched at DEMO 2004 – five of them were sold within eight months of the conference for values that reportedly were between $10-40M within one year (Oddpost to Yahoo, Stata Labs to Yahoo, Mailblocks to AOL, Turntide to Symantec, MagniFire to F5).

This trend has definite implications for entrepreneurs, angel investors and venture investors alike.  And, I believe, requires a candid conversation between the entrepreneur and his/her prospective funders.  While I know that there are no guarantees - and that plans change once a business is launched -- it is important for me to know, going in to a deal, what the entrepreneur's ideal outcome is.

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• Companies must still build a product or customer base of real value. (ie, if a company is built solely with a “flip” in mind – chances are that it will be able to take neither track (ie, no VC and no buyer).

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The Community of the Future

Remember Utopia? You know, where everyone is equal, needs have been dispatched with all the relentless force used to stamp out smallpox, and disease and suffering are as alien as Ugandan at the U.S. border? Yeah, practically speaking it’s more laughable than a Bill Cosby routine. The only place we seem to be willing to entertain even the faintest fantasy of utopian society is Star Trek: the Next Generation. And if that’s the very best we can muster, it may say less about cynicism than it does about our real understanding of human nature. We just know not to expect perfect. Not even from Apple.

But we also appreciate that there’s no reason not to attempt to make our communities better. All the strides we’ve made in bicycle advocacy work in the last few years—from bike paths to bike lanes to sharrows—demonstrate that we do understand that the communities we live in can at least be incrementally more livable.

Remember Pla d’Adet? That was the gated community that was supposed to happen just outside Greenville, South Carolina, where George Hincapie lives. A bunch of his rich-guy buddies (if memory serves they were really buddies of Thom Weisel). It was going to have a clubhouse much like a country club, but this one was going to be focused on cycling. The hundred or so acres all that was going to sit on is still a field.

While I was in Charlotte for NAHBS, the folks at Gita Sporting Goods were pretty excited to take me by the Girodana Velodrome. I’ll admit that I was more excited to see Gita’s headquarters and warehouse. I was anticipating all the killer ancient stock they had hanging on their walls. And I had good reason to, right? A velodrome with no racing is only marginally better than a theater with no movie showing.

Or so I thought.

First, the Giordana Velodrome is an outdoor, concrete 250-meter track with 45.-degree banking in the turns and 17-degree banking in the straights. It was designed by German velodrome designer Ralph Schürmann who comes from a family of velodrome designers responsible for more than 100 velodromes around the world. It’s a true world-class facility that has already hosted multiple national championships. It offers a variety of racing and training schedules, plus certification classes and even youth programs. It’s a busy facility, which is what you want to see if you hope not to observe bulldozers knocking the thing down after ten years.

If that’s all I’d seen, this post would have been over by now.

The Giordana Velodrome is but one piece of the 250-acre Riverwalk development in Rock Hill, South Carolina. Once we were finished with 25-cent tour, Thad Fischer, the velodrome director asked if we wanted to see the BMX track. Whaaa?

As it turns out there’s more to both Riverwalk and Fischer. The latter is an employee of the city of Rock Hill and serves as the town’s Cycling Coordinator. Think about that a second. This town employees a capable guy to manage their community’s cycling programs. Yes, the have enough cycling programs (or will have) that they’ll need a full-time employee to oversee them all. The former is built around the promise of raising families with a range of shopping and recreation close enough that you can keep your car parked at least some of the time.

When I saw the map with all the different facilities they were planning, I felt like I’d been brained with a backhoe.

Above is the facilities center for the Novant Health BMX Supercross Track. I shot this image from the top of the start ramp.

In addition to the velodrome and the BMX track, there will be all the other amenities you’d expect to see—baseball diamonds, tennis courts, parks with swing sets and jungle gyms. But the cycling doesn’t end with those two facilities; the development will host a permanent criterium course. Yes, permanent. I got chills typing that. When not used for racing it will remain closed to cars and serve as a bike path. There will even be a permanent cyclocross course plus mountain biking trails.

The development will be years in construction as the velodrome is the only piece of the project that is completed. The first homes in the development are slated for move-in this month. Property values are likely a bit higher than in neighboring communities, but it’s hard to argue with a new, three-bed home for $250k. The commute to downtown Charlotte is but a half hour.

The development takes it’s name from the Catawba River than wraps around the development. The Catawba is popular with area paddlers. Plans for the town center portion of Riverwalk include enough shopping that a stay-at-home parent could manage with a bakfiets. There will be a YMCA near the velodrome and (better yet) a microbrewery just yards from the bleachers.

The only reason I haven’t already started packing is because this place is damn flat. It may not be bowling alley-flat, but from the top of the BMX ramp there wasn’t a single lump of ground identifiable in any direction. I just don’t see how I can live without mountains.

There’s a kind of tragedy to the Riverwalk development. Why is a vision like this so rare as to merit a post? Utopia may be as unachievable as world peace—sorry, same thing—but there’s no reason we can’t dream larger than we have. It was the dreams of our forebears that gave us the lives we have, lives free of smallpox and polio (so long as you get your vaccinations) and that include plasma-screen TVs and the Internet. Riverwalk is a dream we can replicate, a dream of a better kind of community, not just for cycling, but living more locally, a dream I’d like to pass on to my kids.

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  1. Ted Culotta

    My dream is to win the lottery and do nothing but devote myself to raising money (some of it from my lottery winnings!) to build velodromes like the one shown here so that kids all across the country can earn varsity letters in track cycling. We can develop generations of kids who love cycling.

  2. ScottyCycles62

    I live about 10 miles from the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista California. They have a BMX track and Circuit Course for road bikes however neither is ever available to the public to use while the Olympic athletes aren’t there or using them. It would be nice if they were. Maybe a local developer will build an athletics based community nearby on the land that is still available. Unlike South Carolina we have hills!

  3. Velo Zephyr

    Rock Hill is neat, but don’t you already live in Colorado Springs where there’s also a world-class velodrome, BMX park, countless bike paths, cycling industry headquarters, and huge mountains?

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      Velo Zephyr: Um, no. That would be Patrick O’Grady who tag-teams with Charles Pelkey on Live Update Guy and also contributes to Adventure Cycling. He had a long and respected run with VeloNews and drew the much loved Mad Dog cartoons for said publication. I live in Southern California and can’t draw. The best I can manage is to say my name rhymes with his. Also the lots of bike paths and cycling industry headquarters is more the domain of Boulder.

  4. Josh "Too Tall"

    Why do we love Velodromes and how is this one more Utopian than the next? Patrick nails it, this one has intends to become the sustainable community cyclists dream of.
    There are other things that make Velodromes places for mere mortal cyclists to escape reality. Compare a day of watching Track racing to farm league baseball? Sure why not? You are up close and personal with amazing athletes for the price of a couple hotdogs or less.
    As a participant you enter a world of cycling where the playbook is still the same as it ever was. Cuss out loud or have a lame equipment failure during a race you might get a $25 fine. When you yell “Stay” riders actually “stay” and don’t flip you the bird. Velo racing is special, go for a day and you’ll know what I mean. Peace, TT

  5. Greg

    May not be utopia (no hills); but, it is a start. Wish we could have something like this in VA. Hope this helps cycling in their area.
    Bravo, Rock Hill.

  6. Kurti_sc

    Thanks for the clarification. I always thought Padraig was a pseudonym for Patrick and you were one in the same
    Next for a clarification. Both South Carolina and North Carolina have great hills ( blue ridge and the smokies) but yep, Charlotte is flat as a fritter
    Hincapies development peaked interest with us, as we live in the region, but was way overpriced and really just seemed elitist. At least the Rock Hill development seems to touch the middle class. I wish them success. For those of us 1-2 hours SW I do hope we get another , more reasonable attempt. I think somewhere in the understanding of Utopia, it isn’t limited to the über wealthy.

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      Kenny: even though Hunter Thompson wrote that there is “nothing more helpless and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge,” I take that as a compliment.

      Mike: I should have an update on the letterpress printing in the next day or so, but honestly, I’m having serious trouble with the paperback printer. They’re completely unresponsive. Once I can find out what is going on, there will be an update.

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    Sorry to go off subject, but posting where I’m supposed to doesn’t seem to reach anyone… 306 backers worth $26,000 would really appreciate an update on your Kickstarter.

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I thought this Friday I’d leave you with some Mongolian hip-hop for the weekend.

And as an added bonus, here’s some Tuvans making a Joy Division classic their own. (The band’s page is here.)

UPDATE: Look at the tracklisting for the rest of the album.

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Marcus G Zwanziger April 29, 2006 at 10:48 am

Excellent! Sharp music, beautiful people.

Speaks worlds for globalization.

Luke April 29, 2006 at 3:26 pm

Tatar is probably the best hip hop group here. It seems like every 3-4 months there is one super popular song that gets played every day on every music station on TV and radio station. Then 3 months later, new song. This song has been popular for quite awhile now, but go check out “Boroo,” or “Бороо,” also by Tatar, I think that song is better.

Mary May 3, 2006 at 12:52 am

How popular is hiphop in Mongolia? I was surprised by the quality and the band’s overall sound — good stuff. Would appreciate any recommendations for other hip hop bands to listen to.

taivan May 9, 2006 at 7:04 am

well i left mongolia when i was 12 years old and i lived in london for 3 and a half year. came back to mongolia 3 years ago. when i came to mongolia every kids in my age were listening to mongolian hip hop. the most popular bands were LUMINO, ICE TOP, DIGITAL, TATAR etc. i hated them except from tatar. they make very good songs and the lyrics are pretty good. i’m 100% sure that tatar is the best hip hop band or maybe baest band in mongolia. keep teh cool guys.

c June 14, 2006 at 7:15 pm

no onoe knows

monnie July 16, 2006 at 12:53 pm

this is very good song. I don’t know how popular hip hop in mongolia is. I was 10 when I left mongolia, and live now in Holland for 6 years. I like the songs of tatar they are ery good. And I’m very suprised of this site..( I mean that poeple from another countries listen to mongolian is very good I think)

B July 30, 2006 at 8:33 am

I worked for 4 months in Mongolia in 2004. Hip Hop is by far the most popular music. So many young aspiring bands penetrate the streets of UB, and film music videos in the streets where they grew up. Most of the Hip Hop is top class, and I just can’t wait until it breaks out of Mongolia to the rest of the world.
I did hear a rumour that LUMINO were in LONDON UK this summer playing a concert?! Does anyone know more?!

benj September 1, 2006 at 3:18 am

I’m actually planning on heading to Mongolia to make a documentary on hip hop culture there. I’ve been working on the film for some time and want to go there over December, January and February. I am trying to get confirmation that there will be hip hop shows happening over this time and thought someone on this chat may know first hand. Any clues?

Cheers, benj

Zero September 3, 2006 at 4:45 pm

Benj, I am also going to MN in Dec, are you looking to hire assistance?

benj September 4, 2006 at 3:01 am

zero…what kind of assistance are you offering?

Fiona September 26, 2006 at 7:53 pm

You looking for a producer Benj? I know this great chick….

benj October 3, 2006 at 5:01 am

hey fiona!
as a matter of fact i am! i was thinking of zero, but he never got back to me. i think this blog is passe – hope the mongolian hip hop scene isn’t. reckon your friend can make monogolia this december thru feb? what is her experience? very interested – benj

BaYaRaa October 10, 2006 at 1:20 pm

Well i have listened to Mongolia hip hop all my life and i am now 16 and I really think Mongolian hip hop is getting better day by day :)
Benj you really should go to Mongolia it is a great country… Hope you have fun over there :)

Sage October 27, 2006 at 2:34 am

this is pretty cool, seeing people from other countries listening to mongolian hiphop. yes, hip hop and rap is by far the most popular genre of music in mongolia as of now (although hiphop is still in its infancy in mongolia – the first hiphop group came out in ’98). but the mongolian people have a rather quick learning ability and incorporating our own style. from what i’ve seen, hiphop and music in general in mongolia is improving literally day by day – sound quality, perfomance, and lyrics too. you’ll all be amazed to see how creative and inspirational the mongolian people really are. and yes, i’m mongolian myself. i wish i could go to mongolia next summer, but i’m too busy with school and work… =((

if you guys need some help with your documentaries, several of my friends just moved back to mongolia, and i’m sure they’d be happy to help out.

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A Caribbean Platter

We have decided to make a conscious effort to participate in events. But we're taking this a bit slowly. We realize that events are a great way to not only follow what other great food bloggers are fixing in their kitchens, but also to absorb and assimilate other cultures.

The Monthly Mingle hosted by Meeta of What's for Lunch, Honey? this time is a great example of that. The theme is Caribbean cuisine. Being a sports aficionado, the minute I read the word Caribbean, images of Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Courtney Walsh, Usain Bolt and Merlene Ottey flashed across my mind. At this point, I am being COMMANDED by my other half to add Johnny Depp (Pirates of the Caribbean) to this list.

The atmosphere during cricket games, people dancing to the beats of calypso (regardless of whether West Indies is winning or losing!), the laid back attitude towards life, sun soaked beaches is what I thought was Caribbean. I had worked with a Jamaican colleague earlier and she took me to this place called Jamaican Jerk Pit. So I knew something about Jamaican cuisine. I immediately started to think of how to make Jamaican Jerk ourselves. But then I thought I should perform a general search on Caribbean cuisine and get some cues. This is because as we've mentioned it in the past that we LOVE to try out different cuisines but we've never really made anything 'Caribbean' before. And I (much to 'someone's' annoyance!) like to dig up info before I get into the cooking part of it ;)

So, back to the 'search'. The first link that I came across when I googled Caribbean (Wikipedia, what else!) made my jaws drop. I had no idea that Caribbean is such a broad term applied to an extremely diverse culture! Well, the part with the beaches and the laid back attitude was still true, but I had grossly underestimated the geographical vastness and the overall diversity of the Caribbean world! I did not know that it included nearly 7000 islands and also included countries like Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Aruba and Puerto Rico! I immediately rushed to convey this to my better half but I was met with that "I already knew it" look. What a barefaced liar :P

Well, the point is, we got excited and decided to explore a bit more. We wanted to sample Caribbean cuisine by trying to glean some aspects from different geographical regions of the Caribbean. I know how I feel when someone comes and tells me "I just had the best Indian food". I simply try to convey to him/her that while that statement is true in a very broad sense, one needs to learn a bit more about the eclectic nature of Indian cuisine in order to appreciate what he/she just savored a little better ;) Besides, learning about other cultures is a lot of fun to me. So we ended up looking for cooking techniques and ingredients germane to Caribbean cooking and came up with the idea of making a little Caribbean feast for ourselves :) Here's the 'menu' :

Coconut cornbread (Jamaica)

Ajiaco or Spanish Caribbean style Stew spiced up with Jamaican Jerk.

Aranitas de Platono or Plantain Spiders (Puerto Rico) with Cuban Adobo marinade.

and...Pina Colada!

Jamaican Coconut Corn Bread

1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup cornmeal
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup shredded and toasted coconut flakes
a pinch of salt
1/2 tbsp baking powder
1/2 egg (thats the problem when you scale down original recipes ;) )

1. Beat the egg well and incorporate the butter. Add all the other wet ingredients to this and mix well.

2. Sift all the dry ingredients separately into a large bowl.

3. Slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry ones and make a smooth-lump free batter without beating too much.

4. Bake at 400F for about 25 mins or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Aranitas de Platono (Plantain Spiders)

2 unripened plantains (peeled)
salt and pepper according to taste
1/4 cup vegetable oil

1. Grate the plantains and add the salt and pepper.

2. Make 1-2" balls and flatten them slightly. Do not pack the plantains too tightly.

3. Heat the oil in a pan and shallow fry the 'spiders' on both sides till golden brown and crisp on both sides.

Cuban Adobo Marinade

1 tbsp thymes leaves (we used dried, powdered thyme)
1 tbsp Oregano leaves ( we used dried Oregano)
2 handful cilantro leaves
3 garlic cloves, crushed
1 tsp ground cumin
2 tbsp ground black pepper
7 tbsp Orange juice or lime juice (the original recipe calls for Cuban sour oranges or Naranja Agria but we used lime juice)

Blend all ingredients in a food processor into a coarse puree.

Adobo can be used in two forms. The one described above is a marinade. If we remove the lime juice, then it becomes a rub for meats. This is one way of incorporating flavor in Cuban cuisine. In Spanish-Carribean cuisine, another way of imparting base flavors is called Sofrito, and is described below with the recipe for the stew.

2 bay leaves
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp Annatto oil (or 1 tbsp olive oil + 1 tsp paprika)
1 medium onion
1 16 oz can of tomato sauce
3-4 scallions
1/2 green bell pepper, chopped
3 cloves garlic, chopped
3 jalapenos, diced (no we didnt de-seed them. We LIKE the heat :) )
6-8 cups water
4 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp Oregano (we used dried Oregano)
2 tbsp Jamaican Jerk seasoning, recipe follows
salt to taste
2 handful of cilantro leaves and sprigs
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tsp grated ginger
vegetables (the original recipe calls for malaga, boniato, yuca, yams, potatoes, butternut squash cubes, green and semi-ripe plantains, corn and taro). We had and used potatoes, sweet potatoes, plantain and corn.

1. Heat the oil in a large pan. Add the bay leaves, onions, bell pepper, garlic, ginger, jalapenos, oregano, cumin and one handful cilantro leaves and sprigs. This constitutes the Sofrito. I guess this is a bit interesting since cilantro and parsley are usally added after the preparation as a garnish.

2. Add the tomato sauce, lime juice, jerk seasoning, salt and cook for a few minutes.

3. Add the water and the vegetables. Stir well and cook for about 30-40 mins. or until the potatoes begin to disintegrate.

Jamaican Jerk

2 Scotch Bonnet chili peppers (we used jalapenos)
3 scallions
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1 small piece of fresh ginger
1 tbsp ground allspice
1 tbsp dried, powdered thyme
2 tsp ground black pepper
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp ground cloves

Grind everything in a food processor. If you wish to store this for a longer time in the refrigerator, the recipe calls for the addition of 3 tbsp sunflower oil.

Now for the yummy creamy pina colada! Remember the Pineapple Upside-Down Cake from last week? We had some pineapple slices and thought that we should have a drink to go with the meal. While we are not sure which part of the Caribbean is home to the Pina Colada, we decided that we should not skip this opportunity to make some :D We don't drink alcohol, so this was a non-alcoholic pina colada and I'm not sure we missed much ;) Here is the super simple recipe for an indulgent drink!

Pina Colada (for two):

A couple of slices of Pineapple - we used 4
1 cup Pineapple juice
1/2 cup coconut milk. You could use 1/2 tbsp coconut extract and use plain milk instead. Or, pair 1/2 tbsp coconut cream with 1/2 cup of milk
Sugar, just enough to taste
Some chopped pineapple for garnish, and a slice for 'show' just like this ;)

Well, what can I was a terrific meal! The cornbread, with a slightly sweet taste from the coconut flakes and the coconut milk went really well with the piping hot stew that exploded into our mouths with the heat from jalapenos and jerk seasoning! We dipped the plantain spiders (I am not sure why they call them that way!) into the Adobo marinade. While the Adobo marinade is going to be used extensively in our kitchen in the future, the plaintain spiders , we thought will work as an easy and great appetizer. Has the Kerala effect with the plantains, so could go very well with Indian food too! What can I say, we simply stuffed ourselves while watching Dilli 6.

It was tons of fun cooking together and we learnt a lot about Caribbean food! Everything was fairly simple to make and very healthy too! So, here's sending this platter to Meeta for the Monthly Mingle- Caribbean event!

Ranjani said...

wow! everything looks phenomenal:) You guys are on an event roll!!

Mahimaa's kitchen said...

oh wowwww... is it fair on your part to post such lovely lovely array of dishes in one single post?? everything looks terrific A and N :)mouthwatering...

Dee said...

What a gorgeous meal! We love Jamaican jerk so much, we started growing our own Habeneros (Scotch Bonnets)! I think our palates have been permanently damaged.

I'm borrowing your Cuban Adobo Marinade recipe for our barbecue this weekend. What kind of meat, do you reckon?

Varsha Vipins said...

Wow,,Thats an awesome start A n N..I am seeing almost all blogs sizzling with gorgeous Caribean Cuisines.But such a feast am seeing for the 1st time..Kudos to ur effort n everything looks so delectable..!!

Cham said...

A & N, not fair :( u guys partying without me. I don't know which one to grab first, probably the drink first? That is a Carribean feast! Well done!

Nags said...

i am so floored!! and i wish i could see the bigger versions of some of your pictures :)

Arundathi said...

that's truly a feast! very nicely done!

Indhu said...

that's an awesome spread... I just finished my dinner and i am hungry again :)

Uma said...

wow, what a spread! looks like you had a lovely caribbean feast! All of them look mouth-watering.

aquadaze said...

what an awesome spread!

Chitra said...

ohoh,its a fantastic array of caribean food!!perfect for the event!!do visit my blog at ur free time:)

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

I love Caribbean food! Everything looks so appetizing and tasty!

Good to know you also like your music heavy ;-P! I was quite a Metallica fan in the 90's...

Asha said...

You went town ...errr...Caribbean this week. All of them looks so yum. I was surprised to see somany little countries includes in Caribbean too, I chose Jamaica maan! :D

Usha said...

Love your spread, I cannot decide which of these I want to try first, Awesome :-)

The Caked Crusader said...

Lovely selection of dishes - you must have put in some work!
Caribbean food for me would be Bahamian conch fritters, preferrably at Arawak Cay with a nice rum cocktail!

Arch said...

Very very very nice A and N, real awesome spread. That marinade looks wonderful and the cornmeal coconut bread seems like a great idea...Great work, really !!

MeetaK said...

oh my this is an incredible looking feast. i love it. so perfect for the mingle. thanks for joining us!

Aparna said...

You should title this "A Caribbean Feast"!
That's quite a meal.

confounded-lady said...

Ah, looks thoroughly enjoyable!

Thanks for the visual (and otherwise) treat :D I will go step by step, by first starting out with the pinacolada :)

Maria said...

Look at all of that food! Everything looks fantastic!!

Lakshmi Venkatesh said...

Looks Amazing. Array of dishes all at the same time. Please send them all to me also.

Soma said...

Do u have beaches around where u live? May be u should have taken all that delicious Island Food & relaxed on a beach chair while sipping the Colada & dipping the spiders in that awesome looking adobo sauce..& watch thewaves break!! later the bread & the stew... at a cozy corner .

I love everything that u cooked, But I hate Pirates of the Caribbean. Boy I do need to escape to a seascape.

Deepa Hari said...

I am seeing lot of Carribean cooking going around..What a lovely spread?....and all in one post....thats great yaar...looks very delicious and inviting...

Sukanya Ramkumar said...

Lovely Caribbean feast. Looks so good. Nice recipes. YUM!

Lavanya said...

wow.. evrything looks perfect n yummy..I will try those plantain spiders:)

DEESHA said...

Thatz quite a lot of food .. never explored Caribbean cuisine ..

Superchef said...

That is such a yummy platter!! Envy anyone who was around to eat all those food!! too good!!!!

Natashya said...

You did a great job sampling many Caribbean flavours! I love jerk, we had jerk pork last night. And the spiders look really good, I have made tostones before, which are similar but not shredded.
Yummy dinner all around!

Lisa said...

That's quite the spread! Everything looks fabulous. Holler and I would be pleased to have you participate in this months No Croutons Required.

meeso said...

Oh man, you made me in the mood for some Caribbean food!

PG said...

love this meal of yours. yummy1 Even i have been wanting to try out some Carribean food. let me see if I gather enough courage to do it. :)

Priti said...

Wow everything looks so yummy...difficult to say which one is better..thanks a wonderful meal...hope you guys have enjoyed it much....

Dibs said...

great stuff!! cant decide which one to try first!

Sig said...

This is the second jerk recipe I am seeing today! One of my favorite marinades, I can still taste the jerk chicken we had in Jamaica years ago from one of the dumpiest stalls... Great platter you've got there!

madcapcupcake said...

I love the idea of using coconut & coconut milk in corn bread - I must try it!!

Vani said...

What a lovely Caribbean spread this is! Liked your pasta too. I think peppers (the green ones esp) add a lovely flavor to any dish.

Elle said...

What a great Carribean feast!Love the bottom photo that shows it all together.

bee said...

what a great platter!!! i'd love to try some of these dishes, esp. the cuban adobo marinade.

A_and_N said...

@bee: Do try the Cuban Adobo Marinade. It should work amazingly well with Tofu as well, though we haven't tried it so far!

@Elle: Thanks so much, Elle!

@Vani: I totally agree about the peppers :)

@Madcapcupcake: It is so good! So, do try it.

@Sig: Thanks Sig! Hope you're having fun at home!

@Dibs, Priti: Try the Pina Colada ;)

@PG: Yours is brilliant too!

@Meeso: Gracias!

@Natashya:Oh, have you posted it?

@Lisa: Sure thing! We'll send in something.

@Superchef: Danke!

@Deesha: :D you must be one fussy eater to think that was a lot! Just kidding, lol!

@Lavanya, Sukanya, Deepa: Thank you so much!

@Soma: We are in Atlanta :( no beaches around. Just heat. Sigh.

@Lakshmi: What will we get in return ;)

@Maria, Mayth: Thanks!

@Aparna: I'd love love to eat the Dhal Puri and potatoes :D

@MeetaK: It was a pleasure! Thank YOU for taking the initiative!

@Arch, Caked Crusader, Usha, Asha: Thanks a lot. We did love the challenge!

@Rosa: A loves Metallica. He listens to it ALL the time!

@Chitra: Sure thing ;)

@Indhu, Uma, Aquadaze, Arundhati: Thanks :)

@ Nags: You know the story!

@Cham: Come join us!

@Varsha, Dee, Ranj, Mahimaa: Totally! Come on over for a party :) Thanks!

Madhuram said...

You guys have definitely made a great effort to prepare this Carribean menu. I should also try like this once.

Food Fanatic said...

omg i have been missing all the fun!!

love the recipes. u work so hard!
hey do u have any tips for peeling plantain?

A_and_N said...

@Madhuram: Hey, try it and let us know how it worked out!

@Food fanatic: No tips, really! I just sliced it with a knife!

A_and_N said...

@Madhuram: Hey, try it and let us know how it worked out!

@Food fanatic: No tips, really! I just sliced it with a knife!

Maricar said...

How come when I click on a recipe that looks delicious, I get sent right to you? Can't wait to try this!


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"They did everything I asked them to, and I feel they priced their work fairly."
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Parts & Labor Warranty:
12 months / 12,000 miles
Mon - Fri: 8:00am to 6:00pm
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"They did everything I asked them to, and I feel they priced their work fairly." Jim - Verified Customer
"They treated me pretty nice and are real fair on their prices and they did a good job." Billy - Verified Customer
"They are good, they know exactly what they are doing." Lynn - Verified Customer
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We found Momentum Automotive to be an established auto shop staffed with experienced, dealer trained automotive professionals. Buster Armstrong, the owner, is an ASE Certified Master Technician with over 30 years of experience in the automotive industry. He has assembled a group of equally qualified managers and technicians and equipped them with some of the best automotive tools and computer diagnostic equipment to make professional repairs on your late model vehicle. All work is backed by a 12 month/12000 mile warranty. this certified shop offers free local shuttle service, early bird drop off, and wireless Internet on site for your convenience.

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617 N. McCall Rd. , McAllen
AC/Heating, Alignment, Check Engine Light, Diagnosis, Muffler & Exhaust, Oil Change & Lube, Scheduled Maintenance, Service & Repair, Timing Belts, Transmission Repair

"Great service. They are my go to mechanic because I trust their work. I have taken my vehicles there for complete tun..."

1834 Las Casas, Brownsville
400 East Expressway 83, San Juan
  • Mercedes-Benz
  • Smart
203 East Maxan Street,, Port Isabel


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1999 Effect of Days Open on the Lactation Curve of Holstein Cattle in Saudi ArabiaM. H. Gamil; A. K. A. Ali, A. AI-Haidaryl,; M. A. Aishaikh
1994 A note on relationship of plasma thyroxine and triiodothyronine rateM. M. Alfuraiji; S. M. Basmaeil; M. H. Gamil
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