bagel, cream cheese, and lox

one of my fave foods.

i am sitting here eating a late lunch/early dinner of it. the details: toasted whole wheat bagel, gaspe nova lox (though i still believe sockeye salmon is the greatest salmon ever--and to be specific--the wild copper river sockeye), some organic valley cream cheese and a little smattering of cippolini onions and parsley. very pretty looking and extremely tasty.

i can live off this stuff.

i talk about food a lot. but--i really love good food. i feel like it's the one luxury people forget about in their search for louis vuitton and givenchy--which, are of course, part of the lvmh (louis vuitton moet hennesy) family. food, when you don't have to eat it to just survive--is the epitome of good living. when you can afford to be whimsical and EXPERIMENT with ingredients and preparation--is just incredible. i love food. i love everything about it--the preparation, the experimentation, the presentation, the flavors and the eating of it.

i confess. sometimes (a lot of times when no one is around) i even talk while i prepare. you know, like they do in those cooking shows. haha

that said, i am feeling slightly better i think--but i'm still coughing phlegm and it's annoying cause it's the one thing i wish would go away before i have to fly. flying in close quarters with strangers and coughing phlegm into tissue? hell, i am going to be one of those people i hate. because, i confess, when someone in a plane even sniffles--i get annoyed and make a face. serves me right. i feel for the poor person who has to sit next to me. i'm discreet enough in public when i have to do it--but discreet or not--it can't escape a person's notice unless they are totally oblivious to life around them. or if they are paris hilton.

oh well. i feel bad i'll be sick for vermont, but i hope that it doesn't become too much of a hindrance.