The Ink-Pot and the Palette

Hello! Nice to see you! I was going to go search you out and find out if you're still blogging here.

Cooking and food combined with love seem to be almost universal Id List items. I'm rewatching "Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty," a Chinese "historical" drama featuring a clever and very pretty young state official with a gourmand streak, and his stoic, traumatized military protector/friend.

The military guy finds solace in cooking, and we get some marvelous scenes of him tying back his considerable sleeves and going to work in the kitchen with a cleaver and a wok and some steamers, and setting wonderful meals in front of the titular Sleuth and his found family around a lively dinner table. Sheer Id!

I hope you're well. Must go seek out your journal and see what's been going on.