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Let It Be Sunday!

October 18, 2015 by Joy the Baker 15 Comments

Let It Be Sunday!

Hello, friends.  Welcome to another one of those things called Sunday.  Maybe you’re headed out apple picking or going to catch snakes… whatever it is festive people do in the Fall, I hope you’re enthusiastically doing it.  

This week I was in Los Angeles for a few days and several hours working and lunching (like a lady, with wine and pizza), but the days have brought me back to New Orleans where I’m hustling hard and testing poached eggs for the Brunch cookbook like a stone-cold maniac.  If you need any eggs, sorry.  I’ve purchased them all.  Apparently I’m trying to re-invent the wheel (the egg, actually)… so I need all of them.  

The Internet was as full as ever this week.  Here’s the good stuff: 

•  How can we live free lives with all of our information, all of our money, all of our searches, everything ever… online?  If you’re not paranoid, you’re crazy. Please pass the tin foil.  

•  We’re part of the re-thinking and re-writing of recipes.  We’re thinking about recipes differently.  We’re cooking from the Internet.  We’re more flexible and free.  Written Recipes Undergo a Makeover.

•  Why Mom and Dad Sounds So Similar In So Many Different Languages.  Spoiler alert:  because our baby-mouths are shaped the same way, and that’s pretty cool (because we’re fascinated with ourselves).  

•  I started this article thinking… knowing.. absolutely certain that I’d only get through the first paragraph before being mildly irritated enough to click away.  (I realize I sound like a jerk.. the Internet is a fickle place), but I was fascinated beginning to end:  The Curious Afterlife of Terrance Trent D’Arby

•  Danny Meyer and the no tipping restaurant.  Forward thinking for the food industry.  Let’s do it. 

•  Are you watching the baseball playoffs?  They’ve been pretty great.  Here’s a major highlight… in case you want to look sporty when you’re not really very sporty at all.  Here’s something you should know about baseball playoffs.  

•  Miranda July writes about her Very Revealing Conversation with Rhianna.  

•  Listen past the 3-4 cringe-y remarks from Mr Stern to get all of the goodness and amazing vibes from Sia.  Such an incredible interview:  Howard Stern interviews Sia  (thank you Jon!)

•  How To Be Good With Kids.  Other people’s kids.  When you have no kids.  Be prepared to have a shit time.  Because… yea. (Thanks for the link Jessica. I like your children so very much and that’s not even pretend.)

•  You’re not Jennifer Anniston, and 9 other things your hairstylist wants you to know.  

•  A photographer edits out our smart phones to show a strange and lonely new world.  I hate us.  

•  40 Things to do in New Orleans for less than $10.  What we’re trying to tell you is, stay off Bourbon St, ride the street car, and go to the park.  

•  Sausage and Mushroom Risotto because I’m not kidding when I say this is one of the best things I’ve ever made.  

•  Aimee from Simple Bites made Lots of Autumn Pesto.  Hint:  so should we all.  (Similar to Battlestar Galactica’s ‘so say we all’, but this isn’t the apocalypse and we aren’t in space with Edward James Olmos.  Captain Adama!!!!)  (That really got away from me.) 

•  I can’t read just one book at a time.  Here’s what I’m working with:  After a While You Just Get Used to It and Fates and Furies.  

Have a very happy day!  

xo Joy

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  1. The Queen of Dreaming

    November 7, 2015 at 3:48 am

    Great post as always ;)

    https://justsem.wordpress.com/

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  2. swlock

    October 25, 2015 at 6:36 am

    Joy, when you put links out to other content on the web, make them open in a new browser window. If you use your internet stats (like time on site) to sell advertising or get sponsors, or to make sure your content is compelling to your audience, making this change would help you have better information. I really like to visit the sites you recommend, but then I’m sad when they don’t open in a new browser window.

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    • joythebaker

      October 25, 2015 at 10:56 am

      I’ll fix that!

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  3. Jon

    October 21, 2015 at 7:11 am

    Sia is life!

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  4. Alice

    October 20, 2015 at 2:10 pm

    While I do think it’s important to think about how much we use our phones and when it is appropriate, I think photography like this can be misleading. Not because the photographer is lying, per se, but it’s the nature of photos to capture one moment only. None of those people exist in a vacuum. Consider Diane Arbus’s famous photo ‘Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park;’ the kid looks creepy and you can totally read into the dark hole humanity is heading towards seeing this weird kid with a toy grenade. BUT, if you look at the contact sheet, he’s just a normal kid who was showboating for the photographer, and she chose the most disturbing image for her own purposes. This photographer has done the same thing and edited out the phones for emphasis. Photography is art, just as much as it is reality.

    Oh man, I just internet ranted. I took a theory of photography class in college and this is what it did to me. /rant done

    Interesting reads as always!

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  5. Joy

    October 19, 2015 at 8:52 am

    Spot on links, Joy. Just..spot on.

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  6. Edlyn

    October 18, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Wasn’t that Miranda July interview with Rhianna like a dream?! I was swooning at the end of it. I’d like to think that’s how I would act if given a chance to interview her. Except I would pass out. So maybe not? She should totally do a FREE West African concert. I’m in!

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  7. Ellen

    October 18, 2015 at 2:33 pm

    Joy, how did you know I love risotto and have three sausage links in my freezer? You can read minds, that’s how.

    Loved the Miranda July/Rihanna piece.

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  8. Sheree Knapp

    October 18, 2015 at 11:28 am

    As a Louisiana Lady (I refuse to say Old Lady) living in South Carolina, I look forward to your Let it be Sunday post. They give me a sense of home. I miss the delicious food and great places to visit. I love your recipes and articles. Happy Sunday!!!

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  9. SMM

    October 18, 2015 at 10:40 am

    A restaraunt near where I live in Canada tried the no tipping model when it first opened in June 2014. The program didn’t last even three months because the customers didn’t like it. The owner felt he was maybe three years ahead of the trend.The owner still intended to keep a health and dental package for employees. I am not sure how that has panned out.

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  10. Kristi

    October 18, 2015 at 10:36 am

    I was just thinking this morning, ‘ I need some Terence Trent Darb’y’ in my iTunes music and I need to google him. Then I open this and see… what??? :). Can’t wait to read it. Thanks Joy for Let it be Sunday. I always look forward to it.

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  11. Cy

    October 18, 2015 at 10:30 am

    Having worked in every position in restaurants for years, I can tell you right now; the no-tipping idea is not going to work in most places, simply because the staff won’t make a decent wage. We have a couple very high end spots here in SF that are okay with it, but the more affordable places have since given up this model, because they can’t keep staff.

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  12. Leslie

    October 18, 2015 at 9:44 am

    I think these will prove some good reads, as usual. Hah. I hope you are having Great Sunday!

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  13. Betsy

    October 18, 2015 at 6:43 am

    I tapped over to the photographic images–smart phones have become the dumb-down of intimacy… Shutting down to let it be Sunday ;-)

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  14. Rena

    October 18, 2015 at 2:46 am

    Looking forward to your eggs-recipe in your Brunch cookbook as I love eggs – hopefully eggs will be again available then :) Happy Sunday!
    xx from Bavaria/Germany, Rena
    http://www.dressedwithsoul.com

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