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A multimedia and multi-sensorial experience will happened this coming Friday June 19th, 2009 8PM at 5C Cultural Center, 68 Avenue C (corner of 5th Street), New York, NY 10009 (view map here). I’ll set up my stage/kitchen at 5C Café. Not only Mike Bisio and I will perform from our repertoire of songs and contemporary [...]

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THIS COMING SATURDAY: Saturday May 16 2009 6:00pm -7:30pm Concert CD release of: “Whisk! Don’t Churn!” Nicole Peyrafitte (voice, video, electronics, whisk & sweets!) Michael Bisio (double bass) & with guest poet & producer Pierre Joris $8 Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery New York, NY 10012 (212) 614-0505 CD Details: here Read  reviews: here Get [...]

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A few weeks ago I raved about the Jean-Louis Cheese from Bobolink Dairy but didn’t get to take pictures. For my grand joy, I reconnected with Jonathan White, cheese maker and owner of Bobolink Dairy at the D’Artagnan Duckathlon. Jonathan was leading the cheese challenge; the contestants had to rank the cheeses by age, and [...]

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photo: Josh Stansfield “She is making Cherry Coke Foie Gras!” says Ariane, nodding her head, pursing her lips, and cracking a demi-smile. She looks at my face and quickly adds: “she always wanted to do it“. Ariane Daguin, the Foie Gras goddess and childhood friend, is talking about her daughter Alix.  Rose, Ariane’s best friend, [...]

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Some pix and comments from the events mentioned in the blog  “busy week“. April 27-28 I played Claudine in The Cry, a vignette film, part of James Mehr’s  project Veritas that will be on line soon. on May 1st I had a great time performing Voyage dans la Lune at the Neo-Benchi and Experimental Video [...]

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Thanks to COMFOOD, the listserve of the organization Community Food Security Coalition,  I could learn more about the Swine Flu issue. The mass media community is having such a ball playing with the scare levels that the real info gets buried if given at all. An insightful discussion on the COMFOOD list mentioned the blog [...]

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Les semaines se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas or in English: Week follows week; none are alike. Here’s the one coming up for me, and wow,  is it busy! First, this weekend I am preparing for  the shoot of a short independent movie “The Cry” by talented young director James Mehr. I will play [...]

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FRANCE 24 report: French scientist Eric Seralini says research shows Roundup herbicide is highly toxic to human beings. ‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands Sunday 19 April 2009 By Clea CAULCUTT link “Superweeds” are plaguing high-tech Monsanto crops in southern US states, driving farmers to use more herbicides, return to conventional crops or even abandon their farms [...]

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Two of my most recent posts were about turmeric (curcuma) and today this piece was posted on the ASFS List server (Association for the Study of Food and Society) by Cara de Silva via Dana Jacobi. A very scientific article on the source of turmeric’s healing power finally uncovered in U Mich lab (American Chemical [...]

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Yesterday I attended the first day of Food Film Fest 2009. What started as a dreary, wet, miserable trip to the Action Center at Battery Park ended up as a full, enlightening, insightful and tasty one. I will not have time to get into too much details but just a few notes about the event. [...]

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