browned, then roasted with brown sugar and garlic....and butter.
Yum.
I'm not a person who ever wanted to be thin. I'd be perfectly happy to be "fat but fit" as they say
There is a majesty and a kind of unabashed feminine power in women who relish being themselves. I have always thought heavier women were more sensually oriented, were more undeniably female. Here is a story: So, we were having dinner with a number of other couples, three of whom we were meeting for the first time. One of the wives is an Italian woman, full bodied, filled with laughter and with that way Italian people seem to see everything. As the evening progressed, she came right up close to my face at one point (also something Italian people seem comfortable doing) and said: "But you don't LOVE food, do you."
She was saying, without saying it in so many words, that though I look the way I look (which is a pretty good way to look), her larger body indicated a sensuality I probably knew nothing about.
It took me such a long time to figure that out.
She is an excellent cook. Their lives (the husband is Jewish) revolve around delicious food and friends and comfort. For instance, last Easter, she happily made a lovely dinner for forty, finishing it off with carrot cake
and lemon cheesecake.
There are all kinds of ways to be, in the world.
Here is another story I found interesting that addresses that same way of seeing ourselves or our value through standards that mean nothing at all. So, what our I.Q. tests actually measure is
what it is that makes a good worker.
There was a TED talk on it.
It was an amazing concept that I suspect we are already aware of. Great social skills, the capacity to form loyal relationship, the ability to proceed with confidence ~ these are not skills or talents measured by I.Q. tests. Yet, think of the horrible misery in those tests and in similar kinds of things for us all, over the millennia. Why we think it is okay to enslave, or to believe ourselves kings by Divine Right, or to think we are very much better than the next guy because we have a piece of paper said to measure what matters.
The singer Estelle is a big woman. Initially, she was dressed in a way that did not flatter her. Now, she dresses in a way appropriate to her shape. She is more beautiful today than she was in the beginning. What you see when you see her now is a big, beautiful woman who accepts herself.
Orson Welles was a big man with a beautiful voice and a commanding presence.
Cedar