Today I woke up and looked around the internet, seeing many salutes to the fallen of 9-11. Of course, memories of the collective sorrow that surrounded New York return, and I plan to spend the day nesting; I will have to see if I can get to my art studio to paint, my other artistic pursuit. First and foremost, I longed for the Sunday morning comfort food of the early 2000s. In 2003, for my graduation from library school, my sister gave me the wonderful gift of this cookbook, The Sunlight Cafe. It's a vegetarian breakfast book which also has great recipes for protein bars of different sorts and lots of interesting ideas for brightening up breakfast. Today I made Mollie Katzen's homemade pancakes, which include soy flour for energy and protein and raw wheat bran for some oomph. And, because September 11th is a sad day, I decided I needed to add a natural comfort, chocolate. I was also thinking as I cooked that my chocolate chips (imported bulk from Italy) and wheat bran I bought from Sahadi's, one of my favorite food stores in Brooklyn, and also a store that was hit hard in the anti-Arab sentiment that tragically arose as a result of 9-11.
So, for me today is a day of seeking quiet, solitary comfort and beauty to reaffirm those qualities in life. I'm watching this stunning clip of the great Naima Akef, an Egyptian film star of the Golden Age of Egyptian cinema.
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