Geeky Cat Miusings

Geeky cat loves to learn about all sort of things and when the learning involves chocolate in any way, her excitment escalates. Tonight the Royal Ontario Museum hosts a talk about the use of food, perfume, and chocolate in creating the mood for love. Now thinking about chocolate certainly puts me in a mood…but is it a mood of love? I think the lure of chocolate can banish the thought of love right out of my mind. Luckily that lasts only as long as the chocolate lasts - which can last me a long, long time as I let it melt in my mouth without haste - 20 minutes per square. The use of aphrodisiacs in different cultures and time periods will be discussed by my favourite ROM personality, Gayle Gibson. I am wondering if they will provide chocolate since a chef from George Brown College will also be there. If you are interested in attending you can still sign up for the romantic tour.

If anyone knows who has the world record for taking the longest amount of time to eat chocolate, please let me know.  I am also looking for any interesting chocolate facts.

Thanks to all the researchers who are finding that chocolate has great anti-oxidant properties that protect against heart disease and cancer: Now I can justify my consumption of this luscious fruit.

I hope you have a chocolatey day.

It has been a long time coming but I finally have my own domain name and I have successfully installed Wordpress. This is my first blogging experience and I am so excited.

I love to read and Februrary is the month when Toronto celebrates reading. If you are interested learning more have a look at this site http://www.keeptorontoreading.ca/. Last night I attended the wines of Italy talk. The talk about the wines was not very informative but the recital by Gianna Patriarca, a poet, was insightful, moving, and humourous. Her poetry touched me personally: she was born in Italy and moved to Canada and continues to feel a strong connection to her native country but has established her ‘life’ in Canada.

While I was not born in Italy, I still feel the Italian connection as my parents were born in Italy and I grew up in the Italian tradition and I feel that this has given me a dual nationality and a complex sense of what my culture is. Living in Canada is a multicultural experience and anyone that is fluid enough will assimilate some of the multicultural flavours with their own basic stock. So what I am is a strong Canadian/Italian stock with mixed vegetables from Europe and exotic spices from Asia.