Now that the painting I showed you last night is finished, let me tell you about it.
When I was in California about a month ago. We went to Alice Waters' restaurant, Chez Panisse. It was worth the lifetime wait. I've been a fan of hers since I was a young woman. I believe she's about five years my senior. We have a lot in common, but $ isn't one of them and I don't possess the amazingly sharp palate that she does. Still, I do have an adventurous palate and love making and eating interesting and good food. I've always had or helped with our vegetable garden, it's always been organic, what we didn't raise ourselves, my father taught me to buy in season-- our meat, dairy, bread, eggs, etc. from local farmers. We went to a family in Conshohocken for our tomato pies and oregano bread on Sundays, another family made our hot and sweet Italian sausages. Sam Bono from Phoenixville, raised and processed the rabbits, pheasants, chickens and turkeys for us. My brother Danny and his late wife Shirley, raised organic, polled Herefords back in the 1970s. So we were pretty much covered.Back to Chez Panisse--we had a salad that included golden beets. It was sublime. Visually lovely and the taste just perfect. The dressing was smooth, creamy and subtle over the fresh, beautiful golden beets and greens, along with the rest of the salad. A relatively simple, delicious salad, yet it inspired the painting above of golden beets. Thank you Alice!
"A Tribute to Alice Waters--Golden Beets", oil on linen, 10"x10", $250., framed.
