As D and I walked home on Locke St. past Democracy,
a recently opened restaurant (v likely named after John Locke) - www.literary-articles.com/.../john-locke-father-of-modern-democracy - we toyed with opening our own multi-ethnic eatery and calling it Theocracy after no one in particular.
We played and tossed around ideas for a menu with a broad, multi-denominational flavour:
For Jews - blintzes bagels and borscht
For Jews - blintzes bagels and borscht
For Christians – meat and potatoes with a side of coleslaw
– Friday maybe loaves and fishes, canned peas
For Muslims -
baba ghanoush. humus, lamb stew, couscous
For atheists – tea and counseling – liquor license pending
For Buddhists - vegetarian tofu and beans
For the excommunicated - penance, Perrier water
Divinity students would serve
Who would cook – maybe catered
Investors welcomed
Or we could call our eatery Autocracy and just serve cake, plain and simple. Cake for the masses or special gourmet cakes for the elites and upper classes, all on a late summer afternoon.
Marcia LaBelle mcohenlabelle and David Cohen © 2014
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Marcia LaBelle mcohenlabelle © 2009
Okay you and D need help with the menu. As an atheist I protest. We eat everything. In fact here in the big city people mix it up pretty regularly. But you made me laugh. Let them eat cake, she said. But she lost her head over it. Better to stick to more low calorie fare. Love the painting.
ReplyDeleteBelated thank you Barbara for your charming comment. of course needless to say I’ve presented a very, modest, partial menu primarily as a joke.
ReplyDeleteOf course you would eat most everything as you as you paint and celebrate most everything - a positive and inclusive approach to life which I heartily subscribe to and applaud!