In London with Jos

Monday, March 30, 2009

In London with Jos

Lunch in the garden w/ fresh pasta and mushroom sauce from Camisa's on Old Compton Street.

Jos loves pasta, and with a lot of parmeggiano!

Feisty little bro Max does, too - without sauce

LOVE this picture of Maxi, if only it was in focus....

Jos and older brother Finn climbing trees (and making faces) in the Hampstead Heath

Finn taking a break

Jos on his walking bike - somebody get this boy some pedals!

Superdad giving a lift to three boys on one buggy, on a stroll to Hampstead Heath...

... and Supermom getting three boys age 4 and under ready for bed at the same time. Hats off to Delia and Matthias!

Yours truly trying to keep up - but not really doing anything useful...

4 comments:

Carol Kim said...: that's just an adorable pic of you with the boys!; March 31, 2009 at 11:13 AM
Petra said...: aww, thank you! They're great kids, and quite a handful, esp. before breakfast :); March 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Suzie said...: All 3 boys are so cute and adorable...; March 31, 2009 at 4:03 PM
Petra said...: Oh, they're quite something, I totally agree :) thanks, Suzie!; April 1, 2009 at 11:54 AM

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Why bother? (Jan 2008)

First of all, this is NOT a diet blog. No calories counted, no kilos or pounds lost, no quantities of any kind.

My first motivation for this blog was MINDFULNESS: this is part of an overall attempt to be more present in my life, notice what I eat, stop mindless nibbling.
Then of course, there's CURIOSITY: if you are what you eat, what am I? What do I actually eat over a year?
Turns out, while I love food, I don't have a great memory for it. More often than not I have a hard time remembering what I ate yesterday, let alone a week ago. I can only imagine what I subsided on as an undergrad, or when I was living or traveling in odd corners of the world. Looking back, I wish I had some kind of record... So, the fight against FOOD AMNESIA as well as ANTICIPATED FUTURE AMUSEMENT definitely play a part.
Once I decided I would buckle down and do this, like all of two days ago, I started poking around on the web and of course stumbled over Tucker Shaw's endlessly fascinating work, from which I borrowed the title for this blog (Tucker, you're an inspiration!). Tucker also provided the ANTHROPOLOGICAL angle. While I'm less convinced than he is of the value that posterity will place on a record of the varieties of food enjoyed at this time of history on the glorious West Coast, I'm hoping that at least my bright and curious goddaughter in Germany will be intrigued to find out there's more to food in the US of A than McDonalds.

Everything I Ate - Japan

Monday, March 30, 2009