(So, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mario Batali (of restaurant and Food Network fame), and a Spanish movie star and cook book author Mark Bittman are teaming up to host a documentary-style show in which they travel through Spain eating food. It is random, very random. Gwyneth apparently speaks fluent spanish, Mario and her have amazing chemistry and it all begins and ends with WILLIE NELSON singing. There is no voice over that soothes me saying “yeah, this is really strange and incredible and quite the paella of people and places but it is going to be awesome!”
Just watch:
I must say that Mario Batali fascinates me, and I think it is because he carried his girth around so well. The dude is fat but has the attitude of a skinny dude with a fat soul, if that makes any sense. I first got into him NOT through television but rather while reading the book “Heat” by a big time New Yorker writer. I can’t put my finger on what exactly fascinates me so much, but this show opens up a brand new arena. An arena which also features Frank Gehry and Michael Stipe. Can’t wait to watch.
(Note: I decided to delete my entry about Dr. Pepper because even if it was just a joke, I don’t want to make judgment calls.)
7 Comments
August 26, 2008 at 10:42 pm
August 26, 2008 at 10:43 pm
better yet:
August 26, 2008 at 11:30 pm
I made a comment when I was in the work lounge the other day, something like “why would anyone drink dr. pepper, it’s so random”. But I don’t drink any of the “brown” sodas, save the occasional root beer float, so it’s hard to make a definitive call on brown soda.
August 27, 2008 at 12:00 am
agreed. i will partake in the occasional root beer float (maybe once every five years or so) and I do love an ice cold diet coke. But I suppose that is the thing I don’t like about Dr.Pepper: completely random. It doesn’t have the history or cultural context of a Coca Cola nor does it have the sittin’ on the porch with grandpa feel of root beer.
now if we want to talk soda I have three words: all natural ginger beer (ok, four words).
August 27, 2008 at 1:12 am
dr. pepper is like a wimpy cherry coke (NOT diet), and that’s all i have to say about that. (oh, and Amen Sista on the p–ping and not mentioning it afterwards. i think some people around here should take note!)
August 27, 2008 at 6:41 am
dude. not cool. dr. pepper has been a staple in my life since i was a young child. my grandma would have no fewer than 30 2-liters stocked in her pantry for when us coffmans would hit the scene. you’re just not used it, that’s all. harpy doesn’t know either–dp is nothing like cherry coke. not even close.
that pooping thing could probably apply to me overall, but it’s got nothing to do with what i drink or eat. it’s just a common courtesy to warn people that they might meet their death if they go near the bathroom for the next 20 minutes or so.
August 27, 2008 at 6:51 am
minus – i am all silly and a speck of sass. i honestly have never tried dr. pepper. i was under the impression it tasted like cough syrup, no?