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.
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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.