90% of art is eye candy.
7%, head candy.
here's to the attempt to concoct recipes worthy
in their alchemy to be included in the illustrated
cookbook of the 3% that manages to satiate both.
it must be said that some of my attempts have been a little undercooked perhaps, like coming down too soon, like weak mushrooms wearing off at 2am in the all-night donut shop, with sugar cake, watching the easy white trails of cream glide and tentacle, shifting between transparency and opacity in the dense black universe of the bottomless cup.
some, overcooked, like a solid week spent driving much much too fast and too far, on bad bathtub blotter, just to feel the constant blast of tepid wind coming through the wide open windows, and drinking only water. discerning purity and impurities. glorious, banal, water.
some were like peasant dishes, too easy on the palate, and lending too much to overconsumption. some got out of hand, over-complicated, making the all-too-common error of cannibalizing their own flavors.
and yet, here's to the hunger, the eternal ravenous search, for those rare blends: that gratify like comfort food or familiar sex, but that also tantalize and edify like interrogating a tradition, contaminating or lacing a familiar beverage, or re-learning mere sustenance.
clean hands or a clean apron signal a bad approach.
never coming down or never going hungry leads to unrequited ability.
understanding of ingredients should be as intimate as possible, but keeping in mind that complete understanding of each is not always possible nor even preferrable. ingredient use is about mastery with and without what is often understood or defined as "control".
errors are necessary, and even the occasional bout of vomiting and diarrhea unavoidable, if not exactly recommended.
every bad taste, delirium, and/or nightmare must be vividly recallable.
nourishment arrives after the intoxication of the feast has waned, as digestion begins.
the process is cyclicle, effects cumulative.
tolerance and aging lend to the need for developing astute lucid memory, which will help avoid a self-defeating learned dependency that comes from too-frequent efforts to re-create experiences, which can breed a sort of laziness, at the expense of authenticity in newly generated ones.
