"Okay, so my favorite thing to do is to complain about how tired I am, but bring a couple of friends and suddenly my energy kicks back!"
"I don't know her, but I have a feeling she's my best friend." (referring to Stella McCartney)
"...catching up with my friends Sex and The City style."
Garance Doré
"Three of Vancouver's best chefs providing the food, talking shop; I don't know about you but I love this stuff. I get to hang out with my friends, eat like a champion, drink a little too much and the editors and camera people pretty much do the rest."
"Like my three friends, Pinot, Vicro, Tojo, each from a different land, three widly different approaches, all coming together in a fantastic collision, a graceful natural fusion."
"If it's not just what you know about a place but who you know, this is who I know and knowing them is what Vancouver is for me. "
Anthony Bourdain
Watching an Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations episode one afternoon made me think of Garance Doré's "Pardon My French" minisodes on YouTube. Anthony and Garance couldn't be further apart; one's a hostile New Yorker who eats, writes and travels for a living and the other an uppity Parisienne who doodles and photographs for her own blog. But watching Tony with his Canadian friends at the end of the Vancouver episode from 2008 reminded me of Garance's final fashion week video. Tony ends the episode at a makeshift-indoor barbecue due to the weather with three of his best Vancouver friends who happen to be chefs. They all three cook their special Vancouver meal, have some wine, talk, laugh, converse. Quoting Tony, "I don't know about you but I love this stuff." It's the homey feel of having a couple of good friends over and making dishes with their own personal spin on it that appeals to me very much right now. Put on some good tunes and have a laugh.
Watching Tony hang out with his mates in the most simplistic way is similar to Garance meeting up with her three girlfriends during the last day of fashion week. After Chanel, she headed to a little café and shortly after her friends started to show up and they talked about their favorite shows of Paris fashion week and had some lunch. What registered with me was the fact that my two very best girlfriends and I are always longing to do exactly what both of these two have showed me. All we really want to is just laugh and giggle and gossip and chat and eat and drink and listen with good friends. And by "we" I mean me and my friends and also the rest of the world. Let's be honest, who doesn't love to share a meal or a table with a at least one good friend?
Watching Tony hang out with his mates in the most simplistic way is similar to Garance meeting up with her three girlfriends during the last day of fashion week. After Chanel, she headed to a little café and shortly after her friends started to show up and they talked about their favorite shows of Paris fashion week and had some lunch. What registered with me was the fact that my two very best girlfriends and I are always longing to do exactly what both of these two have showed me. All we really want to is just laugh and giggle and gossip and chat and eat and drink and listen with good friends. And by "we" I mean me and my friends and also the rest of the world. Let's be honest, who doesn't love to share a meal or a table with a at least one good friend?