Dec 15, 2009 – Phone Number Exchanged
Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:50 AM
Subject: RE: Just kidding …
It’s not a Garland…. but it is a Jenair Duel fuel convection with modular downdraft cooking surface. 4 burners, 2 of which can be replace by an E-ven heat grill assembly (which I also happen to have as well) She’s a beauty… and… very well used.
So… will that stainless steel baby get you at least a little closer to coming down here and whipping up some magic in my kitchen??
Other fowl? I might be able to – only if it isn’t raised in a ‘fowl factory’ and pumped full of god knows what to make it’s breasts so heavy that it’s leg’s can’t support it. Have you seen the documentary Food Inc?? Yikes.
Speaking of movies…. what kind do you like? Big Hollywood Blockbusters… or low budget/independent/foreign goodies that leave you thinking about them well after you’ve left the theatre (guess which are my favourites?) If you haven’t rented Manufactured Landscapes… please do. You’ll absolutely love it. Photographer Edward Burtynsky (from St. Cath. of all places).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0832903/plotsummary . Amazing film. The opening 15 minutes blew me away. His photos… you won’t believe how beautiful he makes a toxic, decaying ship in India look. Strange dynamic going on there.
Well aren’t I just full of p&v this morning. Could sit here and type all morning! But alas… it’s time to get ready for the corporate world…. sighhhhhhh. I need a more creative job!!!!!
Wait… did you say that pasta was your specialty???
Mmmmmmm……. yummmmmmmmm
Hey… where’s my Brad story?? (actually, I would have been out of my mind excited had you said it was Johnny Depp… but.. Brad will do!!)
Good morning btw Robert… hope you’re enjoying your day so far!
Alexis
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Not Just Kidding …
Hi Alexis,
First things first … your stove … never cooked on Jenair … Dual Fuel? … sounds great … As long as it is HOT! Well used? Sounds a bit like me! Ok … you have an amazing home stove … your list of ingrediants for last nights dinner is none too shabby … so why do you need me to come and cook? … you sound way more than competant in the culinary arts!
Ok … next … Pasta … I love to cook pasta! I also love creating soups. Both allow a level of infusion of flavours that make me salivate just thinking about them … my favourite pasta? .. that’s really hard … when I worked at the 5 star Couples Resort we had a pasta of the day … I swear I created 100 different pastas … never repeated … great for using up leftovers … fast … every pasta ordered was a la minute … one favourite is a bunch of grilled veggies and seafood in a flamed Pernod cream sauce … Penne and Tagliatelli are my favs … ok enough … I’m hungry and it’s only 10:30 …
Fish and fowl … love pickeral and artic char … love chicken … but I like Elk better … oh wait they have eyelashes … whoops.
I read a book a while ago about the fast food industry … almost made me sick … I still hate eating hamburger when I have to. Food Inc sound gross and great … I’ll have to check into it …
Movies … movies eh … did you say movies? I suck movies … by that I mean I watch every extra on a DVD … If there are two different commentaries I will watch the movie three times … It’s like a film course. I’ve been a Michael Moore fan ever since Roger and Me … Capitalism is his best … way more balanced than his Bush hating rants …. Love the low budget thought provoking ones too but I probably should watch more … also love anything with Clive Owens, Johnny Depp (just watched Public Enemy last weekend), Anthony Hopkins, Meryl Streep (watched Julia & Julie? last weekend – loved it) … I could go on forever about movies … I’ll watch anything that isn’t full of guns or vampires or aliens … not too excited by the sci fi genre … Does that answer your question???? Read the plot of Manufactured Landscapes .. sounds wonderful … I saw another doc that showed the place where they dismantle ships … really eerie and beautiful.
Oh shucks … I don’t have time for the Brad story! Have to get back to my SEOing … sorry …
You know Alexis – I really don’t think we have that much in common … what do you think? … LOL I
Talk to you soon …..thanks for another great morning email!
R
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM
Subject: RE: Not Just Kidding …
Hmmm…. first things first for you now Robert… I don’t ‘need’ you to come and cook for me…. I ‘want’ you to come and cook for me. Such a luxury that would be… and… I think I’d like to be served. So there.
‘Well used’ sounds a bit like you? Well… ‘breasts so heavy it’s legs can’t support it’ pretty much nails me on the head !!! So… you’re a stove… and I’m a ‘factory fowl’… sounds like a match made in heaven !!!!! (just kidding about the heavy breast… my plow pulling Polish (how’s that for aliteration??) gams are plenty strong enough to support the front load!!!
Scared ya huh?
Let it be known… that I am very well proportioned… and fit as a fiddle.
No Robert… I don’t think we have anything in common… absolutely nothing at all. In fact… I’m so convinced that we have nothing in common that I’m going to give you my phone number… I’ll bet we don’t even have a single digit that matches! (about as subtle as an elephant I am !!)… so… here goes….
(000) 555-1234
and…
thank YOU for your most entertaining emails (but I am still waiting for at least one of the four stories you enticed me with yesterday…) We elephants NEVER forget!!
ttyl
A
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Not Just Kidding …
What was it … the Pernod Cream pasta sauce or the sucking of movies or you want to hear all the stories ???
I am feeling many emotions … maybe I’m making too much of this … it is not like me to fret about anything but I was enjoying THIS SOOOO much and I actually don’t want it to end …
Honestly Alexis … have you done this before? I have … I have to admit I have never felt a textual connection to anyone like this. It just has never worked out … Made some friends and some enemies … what do they say about a spurned woman? I had basically given up on this style of contact until I got your first message and then the photographs … the amazing photographs … then your sense of humour (but narcissistically? speaking it was you getting MY humour).
I’m flattered … thanks for the trust … thanks for everything … oh my battered heart … and what if I don’t want to cook … I want to slurp down bad pizza and drink coke … BTW … did you know that chefs/cooks as a whole eat more junk food than any demographic??? Just kidding about pizza … I only eat my own … actually I’m suffering from some weird kind of withdrawal from cooking … I get up from the ‘puter and I feel that I’m forgetting something … Oh yeah … I don’t have to scrub down the line. Kind of nice.
Back to your wonderful expression of interest in this guy … I’m flattered … and want to pick up the phone immediately and give you a call (but you probably aren’t there right now). I’ve got a busy night with my brother, Paul, tonight … we are going over to friends apartment and I probably wouldn’t be able to phone till very late … however I’d love to give you a call tomorrow night … in the meantime I’ll work on my Brad story.
Talk to you soon …
Robert
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: Not Just Kidding …
Relax….. take a deep breath…. and welcome this ‘connection’ that has torpedoed into your life. Nothing to fear… and… SO much to embrace.
I think we ‘get’ eachother. You engage me.. you make me laugh.. you’re intelligent… you’re creative. You’re (so far as I can see) one in a million. I’m smiling… and looking so forward to learning more. The least we can do is explore this a little more. We deserve to do that.
I will SO be looking forward to our chat tomorrow evening. (but in the meantime… keep the emails coming ok??)
Have fun tonight Robert… and… from the bottom of my heart….
thank you
Alexis
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Not Just Kidding …
Thank you Alexis … You said the perfect words … how did you get so wise???
No time for Brad … maybe later …
Thanks
Robert
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Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Subject: RE: Not Just Kidding …
That wisdom…. came from LOTS of life experience…. (I do have my blonde moments though…. )
Quit teasing me with the Brad story …. sit down and write it already !!!
Have fun tonight!!
Alexis
