Showing posts with label chaucer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chaucer. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe

I must've already done the latter, because well, I don't want to brag or anything but... screw it I'm bragging!!! Today I made two apple pies from scratch. Let me repeat that, from scratch. Pie crust, lattice top, gooey warm apple filling, you name it, I did it. And it took me all of 3 hours. I felt bad for being sick yesterday and not being productive, so to make up for it, I went to the store, bought some apples, and voila!

It's actually very simple, ingredients-wise, I followed this amazing recipe for the pie, and this useful little find for the pie crust. I baked for the simple reason of fulfilling this unexplainable need to create something. Something substantially similar to the universe. So apple pie it was. And it also might have something to do with all the food blogs I've been reading lately. I got into food blogs only because I've been following photography and travel blogs, and shockingly, there's a very high correlation between adventure and culture lovers, and art and food lovers.

On a completely different note, I found this epic video of 3 guys rapping the first lines to the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. The exact same 18 lines I had to uncomfortably recite to my professor during fall quarter, yup, in Middle English, yup, attempting to roll my "r"s when that ability was not written into my genetic code. I emailed the video to my professor because it was hiiiilarious! and hopefully after he watches it he won't be completely flabbergasted at its complete bizarreness and have a whole new opinion of me. For anyone who cares/ wants to know what Middle English sounds like in rap form: