Just Desserts
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Not wanting to focus on death and grieving forever, I scoured my recent photos for something appropriate. This quirky photo of me and my step-daughter eating gelati at Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago fit the bill. The older I get, the more I'm hankering for my Finnish roots, and was thrilled to come across a treasure trove of Finnish proverbs. You'll be seeing more of them here.
Not wanting to focus on death and grieving forever, I scoured my recent photos for something appropriate. This quirky photo of me and my step-daughter eating gelati at Spumoni Gardens in Brooklyn a couple of weeks ago fit the bill. The older I get, the more I'm hankering for my Finnish roots, and was thrilled to come across a treasure trove of Finnish proverbs. You'll be seeing more of them here.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 9/16/2010 10:31 AM 
Categories: Food, New York, Travel, Photography, Spirituality
Tags: eat dessert first Brooklyn gelato Spumoni gardens Finnish proverbs Just Desserts
Categories: Food, New York, Travel, Photography, Spirituality
Tags: eat dessert first Brooklyn gelato Spumoni gardens Finnish proverbs Just Desserts
That is a great picture. I have always wanted to eat desert first and have never tried it. I need to do that.
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Marg, thanks. Try it, you might like it ;-0
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Yes, eat desserts first. First, second, last. The more the merrier. We appreciate the healthy good food more, because desserts are poetry and passion.
Today I will buy more strawberries, ingredients for gazpacho, and. . .
. . .a terrific dessert, of some kind.
And I will eat the dessert last.
I might write a poem about that or include that somehow.
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Yes, we need to grab onto the sweetness of life!
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I meant to say
I will eat the dessert
first.
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Spumoni Gardens! A ten minute walk from my house in Brooklyn. My best friend's aunt used to live right on that street. Don't think they served gelati in those days, just spumoni, which we both loved..
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I love the picture and the idea. Many years ago I sat next to a man who was a recovering alcoholic at dinner. I was looking at the main course menu and he was looking at the dessert menu. I chuckled and asked him why. He said that every day at home he eats main course first at restaurants he usually takes home a doggy bag. He never got to taste the desserts so he decided to have dessert first when he was out. He had an ice cream sundae and I had an apple pie with ice cream. Then we had our steak and potato. We took 1/2 of the steak and potato home for dinner the next day.
I have been doing it every since. I enjoy the desserts that night and the main courses on the next day.
Blessings.
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Great story. Thanks Frank!
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And I thought I was Irish! There must be a bit of that Finnish attitude handed down from my mother along with the Irish heritage because she taught me to live in that spirit if not the words.
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