So...it's 12:15 PM and my shop is already hot. I don't have AC in my woodworking studio. I figure I'll walk over to the bakery and, if I'm lucky, Michael will have made some chilled watermelon, cucumber gazpacho soup and I'll have that for lunch. It will cool me off, is light to eat on a hot day and it will help me make it through what's sure to be a hot afternoon. I scan the menu board and there it is...watermelon gazpacho but wait...what's this other new soup? Cold cantaloupe soup with strawberry garnish...hmmm, I'm not the biggest fan of cantaloupe but I ask if I can try a sample and ... oh my... I have to have this!!! But I want the watermelon also...what to do?
It took me about 2 seconds to figure that out...a cup of gazpacho with a slice of Doug's miche for lunch and a cup of the cantaloupe for dessert (no bread... it's dessert.)
It's supposed to be near 100 degrees tomorrow with a heat index of 110. Try the cantaloupe, you won't be sorry...just leave me some if you can.
Lastly, a tip of the hat to the late Nora Ephron who passed away this week. When asked, in a 2006 "Fresh Air" interview, what was her sense was of what the next 20 years would be like, responded, " the next 20 years? This is a crap shoot, this is a lottery...so I feel...I don't think about the next 20 years. I think about today and I've already been to a bakery this morning. This is the thing that I'm obsessed with...carbohydrates. I feel like I'm now living in an age where there is the best bread that we've ever had in the history of the world..."
...a woman after my own heart...rest in peace, Nora.
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