Fado and Food

I am writing a lot on the new fado this weekend (cover feature, so it has to be good), so I will not be working on the Victimae analysis. It is close to done, but needs some final touches (and I want to post it simultaneously with Building Blocks: Mode Part I). The fado story is due in my editor's inbox Tuesday morning, and I have Lectura Dantis on Wednesday, so it will be awhile. If you are anxious for more arcane analysis, I am sorry to keep you waiting. I will, as a slight compensation to you, post my Mariza and the new fado story on the blog on Friday or Saturday (I want Bay Area folks to have to buy the paper).

I have also been reading the founding documents of religious communities: St. Benedict's Rule, St. Augustine's Rule, St. Francis's Rule, the Dominican Constitutions, the Jesuit Constitutions, etc. Lots of interesting things have been going through my mind on the nature of government, society, community, penance, seasonality, etc. I might post some of these random thoughts.

I will try to post some more summer recipes, though. Tonight I am grilling lamb-burgers with Italian fontina cheese, served on grilled Pugliese bread with dressed mixed greens, avocado slices, and heirloom tomato slices (and grilled balsamic onions, for those who want them). For wine we will be having a Bonny Doon Clos de Gilroy grenache and a Quinta da Sonora (a dry red Portuguese style wine from the foothills of the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountain range (ha ha ha, that and the Great Sahara Desert, buddy!)). I will report on the wines later tonight or tomorrow.