The following is a guest post by Christine Liu. All photos are by Shimon Rura.
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We witnessed much on the fateful book club dinner on September 24, 2009: a lot of hocus-pocus, daring acts of suspense, and stuffing strange objects in our gullets in the spirit of sheer adventure not typically seen.
Present this evening, along with host and unabashed warranty-voider (more on that later) Jeff Potter, were Tina Downey, Christine Liu (pictured above), Shimon Rura, and Andrew Sempere.
In a move that can only parallel the poetry (and poignant amusement) of the evening’s proceedings, the following imagery is accompanied by commentary in haiku verse.
this is where it starts. oven lock is removed to induce superheat thin-crust pizza can kitchen getting warm |
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a quaff to cool down tina’s german wine chills fine in dry ice bucket |
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nature’s bounty sits lush and freshly plucked from earth pizza topping WIN |
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jeff wonders if we think apple, potato feels the same? (close, not quite) |
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cinnamon, cayenne which one is a flavor and which triggers nerve pain? |
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fresh dough needs kneading gluten, arise! gluten, come! the oven awaits |
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my dear, it is time unfurl the oven god’s wrath can we take the heat? |
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holy smoke, batman! forty-five seconds later pizza effing COOKED |
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let’s try again, yes? oven cools a bit; tina preps a second pie |
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crust too thin, toppings too heavy to slide. what to do but risk jeff’s life? |
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in it goes! oh, crap. dropped bits = pyrolyzation eyebrows still here? check. |
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big risks, big pleasures it’s a beaut of a pizza live dangerously |
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everything smells great we research more on the web atlanta guy rules |
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all in all, only oven glass is casualty and yeah, that’s my hand |
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next course: (dry) ice cream choco, cream, beer… goldschlager?! chunky, cold, boozy |
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easy, instant way to impress guests: put dry ice in, on everything |
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sweet down, savory next. keller’s tomato sorbet strange and addictive |
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it’s a miracle! we flavor-trip on pellets changing sour to sweet |
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with a single bite of lime, tina yelps in joy (it works! this is nuts!) |
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this photo says all lemons are swell, but grapefruit pwns everything else |
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we can’t get enough cheese? beer? strawberry? strange white powders? sure! |
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Thanks, Jeff and company, for a tongue-twisting, hair-raising and thought-provoking evening. Geek cooks, unite.
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The colorful spectrum of the evening’s hijinks can be found fully on the corresponding flickr set.