November 2, 2016 Lunch - Asian Pear   Dinner – Sysco Holiday Food Event

We visited with Don and Bev this morning until they left at around 9:00 while I ate a bowl of yogurt, granola, fresh raspberries, banana and the new vitamin powder.

Aaron came around 10:00 and we discussed the VinDacia project until 11:45 when I invited him to join me and Cliff Blaugrund for lunch at Asian Pear.

When we arrived at the Asian Pear at 12:00 Cliff was waiting for us.  I ordered plates of BBQ chicken and pork for all of us with the wonderful Korean cellophane noodles in a teriyaki sauce.  We were served kimchee and pieces of Korean vegetable pancake.  It was fun talking to Cliff, who is a thoughtful conservative and one of the most philanthropic guys in Albuquerque and knows almost everything and everyone of significance in Albuquerque.

After lunch I worked on my water case until Suzette came home at around 3:00 and we drove to Sysco on Griegos to attend their huge Holiday food event.  They had filled the four or five meeting rooms surrounding their kitchen with food vendors who they represent with food stations.  There rooms full of meat vendors, such as the free range chicken producer from Colorado that Suzette is adding to the Bistro menu and beef brisket and NY strip steaks tenderized by injecting juices into them that make the meat so tender that anyone can easily chew it and rows of cheeses and pastries.  The two highlights in the dessert category for me were a vendor named Dianne’s that imported real Danish pastries from Denmark (such as Danish pastries made with real vinebrod) and a European Foods vendor that imported many wonderful items, such as Spanish Chorizo and served chocomate mousse  made with a French dry mousse mix in chocolate cups made with French Callebaut pasty grade chocolate.  We also spent a lot of time talking to the representative for Libby Glass about its new generation of plastic glasses, its new pure non-heavy metal glasses that are beautifully thin and clear, as well as its new lines of rustic table wares. Perhaps soon the Bistro will have a new look in its tableware if it adds its new beverage and tapas bar.

We left a little after 5:00 and at 6:30 I went to meditate.  After meditation I stopped at Lowe’s and bought three small avocados for $1.00, a gallon of milk for $2.28 and 18 eggs for $1.69.  Food is getting cheaper, which is amazing.

I was home by 8:00 and we watched game 7 of the World Series which turned out to be a very exciting game that Chicago won in the 10^th Inning.

Bon Appetit