Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Falasca SPQR

My good friend has been the right-hand man to Alessandro Buccianti for quite some time. Alessandro is a gelato maker from Rome, who has a shop at Yonge and Eglington. He is now helping a friend from Rome (who has won a world pizza championship) establish himself in Toronto....directly across the street from his Gelato spot.



It just opened and it is fantastic. Before dinner hours, he serves square slices which are priced by weight. Just delicious...





pizza buona.....smoked prosciutto, brie and walnuts

Here's an article with more info
Postcity.com Review

Monday, May 16, 2011

MORE ?UESTLOVE

In this part of the interview Questlove talks about collecting multi-track recordings. The first time I heard a famous multi-track recording, I was left speechless and in disbelief. It was at my friend Dan's house. Like a lot of my friends, Dan was heavily into sound design/engineering and had a half-built recording studio on his second floor. After scraping away and smoking the build-up of crystals lining his electric grinder, he brought us upstairs to show us these new tracks that he downloaded.....and there it was.....every recorded track of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. We listened to it in every possible arrangement we could think of. "Put it on with just the vocals! Just vocals!". We also listened to Bob Marley (I forget which track) with just drums, bass, Bob, and his background singers....It was as if they were just jamming out in the room with us.