Where culture and cooking collide: Missives from the heart and mind of Edward Aloise.
We haven’t talked in a while, but it is February. In my mind, the month has always been called Melancholia. I inevitably experience a lack of motivation and general emotional ennui. I sense it in others as well. READ MORE
I have not written you in a while, but It has not been for lack of motivation, I have been distracted. Travel, personal chef commitments, and consulting responsibilities have demanded much of my attention. READ MORE
I love the term oxymoron. I guess it’s the second part of the word that I find amusing. Here are a few examples: jumbo shrimp, quality assurance, unconditional guarantee, bipartisan legislation, and extra legroom. The last one is high on my list. READ MORE
When she walks in the door we will embrace like lost lovers,
I will act as if she was just returning from a short errand. READ MORE
I want to recount how a pre-planned family visit turned into a surreal travel experience. Most of you have seen the videos and read the accounts of the chaos that the NYC vicinity experienced due to an underestimated deluge of which, to our dismay, we became unwilling victims. Claudia and I left Manchester under cloudy skies, and with naive and uninformed intelligence, proceeded to drive into that almost apocalyptic scene. READ MORE
Distance is the major disruptor of relationships. It can be either a tearing experience or a liberating one. It offers an opportunity to remake yourself. To start from scratch and associate with those whose views and personalities are new and different. The result, however, is that it makes it easier to leave behind what and whom you have, indeed, left behind. READ MORE
Friends: I, like most of you, woke to the news of Jimmy Buffet’s passing. Say what you will about his music, I am sure many of you, like me, have hummed the tune or sung READ MORE
In prior years I dreaded receiving the notice because, as executive chef, time away from my business would be both costly and potentially detrimental. I prepared and stored away, just in case, a heart-wrenching soliloquy to perform for both lawyer and judge as to the hardship it would cause if I was chosen. READ MORE
There are times, and we all have had them, when our normal routine is interrupted by a surprising interaction with another person. I am not talking about a conversation with someone new at a party or a business meeting. Those situations are to be expected and assumed. I am describing an event that seems to have been planned in advance without our knowledge or consent. One where we have been placed just where needed and at just the correct time. An event that will remain and continue to give us pause. READ MORE
Philip Guston’s work is not aesthetically pleasing, and I don’t believe it was meant to be. It is politically charged and he makes the viewer uncomfortable. His depictions of fascist and racist violence in reverse and counterintuitive images forced the MFA as well as the National Gallery to sequester some of his work in a separate space with advisories posted that read “some may find these images upsetting.” What I found upsetting were those notices. READ MORE
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