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...spiritual perspective. McKanan said that Stevenson’s reading of success was very individualized in nature and said that while his four principles of success could also be fostered within religious communities, this has not occurred much to date. He said he hopes that religious communities can better integrate the four paths to personal success...
...Wilco’s live shows is an understatement, but these quietly confident alternative rockers are masters of the understatement. In one particularly striking example, Cline admitted that he rarely practices guitar. “If I practiced every day I’d be so much better,” he said. “Just sitting down every day in the morning and going through some kind of studies I’d be ‘god-like’ at this point.” However, between efforts to realize 16 upcoming projects and a recent...
...balance, musing, “You look around and realize that your hobby has been usurped by your profession… I realized how wonderfully narcissistic being an artist in your twenties is—just unlimited amounts of time, and now I feel like I’m better than I’ve ever been at doing what I do, but I don’t really have the time for it. It’s interesting, when I get home I’m handed the child immediately...
...wrong. "I love ramps," says chef David Myers of Sona and Comme Ça in Los Angeles. "They taste wild to me, like an intense, pungent onion flavor mixed with the forest." "Ramps are a spring treat that have a quick season and are much better-tasting than cultivated leeks, scallions or chives," says Mark Fuller of Seattle's Spring Hill, one of Food and Wine's best new chefs last year. "Our guests also get excited for ramps." But does he think the humble ramp warrants this much hoopla? "Overvalued? Not to me," he says...
Ramps are further proof, if any were needed, that food isn't just food anymore. I don't actually believe ramps are any better or more wild-tasting than garlic chives or 860 other related wild onions that nobody pays attention to. If you take any random greens and pickle them and serve them with soft-shell crabs, or sauté the leaves in butter and put them atop incredible pancetta and artichoke spaghetti, of course it will be good! Ramps are like the foraged-greens version of stone soup...