Maybe I’m in the wrong line of work
August 24 2008
Like my friend Kathleen McGivney, my better half and I have been trying to cook at home more often this summer. One of our great resources has been the US magazine Cooking Light. The new September issue wanders outside the boundaries of cooking into lifestyle a bit, including a mutli-page article on the Cooking Light "FitHouse". I would not normally have paid much attention to an article like that until I saw a couple of the photos of the "FitHouse"....(Left-hand are not the same photos that were in the print magazine, but they are taken from the "virtual tour" on the website; right-hand photos are taken from the "BrillHouse"):
"Umm, honey, isn't that the light fixture in our dining room?"
"and don't we have the matching sconces, too?"
But then it got really creepy:
"Whoa, isn't that the fixture I just put in our bedroom?"
Perhaps this means that an alternate career in interior design isn't that far-fetched, or that we're trendsetting, or that Cooking Light has really figured out that notion of "mass customization" for their audience.
Any which way, I'm going to turn the page, that recipe for Vietnamese Summer Rolls looks really good...
(Credit: Creative production of this blog entry: my better half...)
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Henry Ferlauto http://www.geniusinside.com | 8/25/2008 5:21:44 AM
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Karen Demerly | 8/25/2008 7:25:49 AM
Wow, that's pretty crazy. And hey, it's always good to have a back-up career.
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Debbie Farley | 8/25/2008 7:36:58 AM
Amazing and very cool.
If you like cooking, you might find this web site interesting. I just discovered it recently and have been browsing a lot. There are links to some very amazing recipes there.
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David Vasta http://www.iSeriesAddict.com | 8/25/2008 8:03:29 AM
Your phones are all tapped and I would start looking around the house for hidden cameras. Careful Ed, maybe Cooking Light is a Microsoft propaganda tool with it's only purpose is to bring down Ed Brill and the rest of the Lotus Nation! HArrrr Harrrrr Erraaaaa (Evil Laugh)
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Karen Lilla | 8/25/2008 10:49:54 AM
That is so freaky! I had a similar experience with The Sopranos ({ Link } ) where so much of their kitchen appliances, gadgets and linens were in mine. Dont know what that says about my taste, though. ;-)
What you didn't reveal was where you bought the lovely fixtures from -- all one store?
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/25/2008 10:52:00 AM
Ah - I tend to buy lighting from Bellacor.com . Sometimes I look at Lamps Plus or other sites, but I seem to always come back to Bellacor. They ship fast, are always competitive on price, and you can even earn American Airlines miles through the AA eshopping thing.
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Bill Brown | 8/25/2008 12:04:13 PM
It is quite a coincidence that they have the same light, but not that surprising to have the matching sconces. They do, after all, match the chandelier.
Congrats on the impeccable taste!
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Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 8/25/2008 12:06:17 PM
@8 they do match the light, but they put them in a completely different room in the "fithouse". That seems a bit more like product placement to me, but OK. In my home, the chandelier and scones are in the same room. I *do* like them :)
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Bob Balaban http://www.bobzblog.com | 8/25/2008 6:25:53 PM
Ed? I mean this in the best and most respectful way possible -- don't quit your day job.
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Great recipes, lots of techniques and while a lot of the recipes LOOK complicated they are often quite easy.