kidnapped by @missmodular
A DJ and owner of the alternative record label Hoss, Nina has been a purveyor of knowledge for me since I worked with her at PBS. I miss being down the hall from her and sitting next to Cameron there, where he continues to lead the PBS video efforts—these two are reasons enough to live in D.C.
We ate stunning pumpkin curry along with drunken noodles, spring rolls, and salmon.
When someone cooks for you who truly loves cooking as Taw does, you taste the respect for the ingredients. Complicated Thai spice combinations from the kitchen continued as the fish tank burbled behind me, Cameron–in his usual Zen-like way–resisted batting the hanging plant tendrils out of his hair, and toward the dessert, the bird woke up in the cage next to me.
Silently, we unwrapped the banana leaf to find glistening sticky rice (look closely for the little fruit jewels mixed in) and mango. I think I convinced Nina to visit me in Miami when the mangoes begin to fall from the tree outside the Magic Cottage.
After Cameron narrated an incredible iPhone slideshow from his recent travels, we three talked about our work in what feels like a public living room of sorts. And we were reluctant to leave this place of good smells and wonderful food, finally walking out into the quiet street full of the knowledge and responsibility that the future of public media is what we make of it, beginning now…
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Posted Thursday, March 5th, 2009, 2:40 am * Filed in Art, Food. * Tags: cameron, dc, Food, kristen, kthread, local, miss, modular, nina, taylor, thai, washington, wonderful, xing. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
March 7th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
watching that makes me want that mango&sticky rice again RIGHT NOW yummmmm! Looking forward to our food adventures in Austin!
March 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Just wait, the best cupcakes in America are in Austin :) and we’ll go to the salad drive-through too and have Torchy’s Tacos, mmm…
March 8th, 2009 at 1:26 am
The salmon in Red curry is also delicious.
March 8th, 2009 at 10:22 am
i want to go to there!