I just had lunch with some girlfriends. We ate at a new restaurant at the Walker Art Center, home to art of the 20th and 21st century. Like most people I know, I don't understand "modern" art, or what passes for it. Basketballs floating in a tank of water. Whatever. The Walker has a nice collection of Edward Hopper's and Frank Stella's, though.
Warhol's Marilyn greeted us at the entrance to the restaurant. It was full of cool people that I'm too uncool to even know who they are, although I recognized a couple of local singers. My friends and I got a great window table. There were four of us and we split three appetizers and three entrees. Two entrees would have been plenty. But the piece de resistance was the Spoon, Cube, and Cherry dessert, an homage to Claes Oldenburg's Spoon Bridge and Cherry sculpture that resides in the Walker Sculpture Garden. We didn't bother to order anything but that! A chocolate cube, filled with chocolate mousse, topped with Vanilla Bean ice cream, with a curved chocolate spoon and a marzipan cherry at the end. I took a picture with the CrapCam(tm).
I guess I was too close; you can't really see the spoon and cherry on top. I should have taken a second picture, but my ice cream was melting! I promised myself that I would work out this afternoon to burn it off. I may have to exercise for 4 hours, but it was worth it!
3 comments:
your dessert looks wonderful!
I hear you on the eating thing. The only thing I'm happy about training starting tomorrow is that I have a half of a fighting chance to actually burn off some of the bad calories I've been eating.
HEY: congrats on getting in to Grandma's. You are going to rock.
HEY HEY: what do you mean "your last year in Minneapolis?"
I LOVE Edward Hopper's paintings!
In Minneapolis, eh? You would sneer at our snowfalls here.
Already the Great Nor'easter is melting away!
(That was me who deleted that last comment by the way - a typo. I HATE typos.)
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