Updates

lucky hits the streets

2011-07-08T19:22:00.000-07:00

so far summer reading list...

2011-06-23T06:31:00.000-07:00

Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
Bicycle Diaries, David Byrne
Bossypants, Tina Fey

sure is hot

2011-06-09T05:31:00.000-07:00

may views

2011-05-27T05:08:00.000-07:00

Luck Dragon Lick

2011-05-02T21:36:00.001-07:00

falcor in the mist

2011-04-20T08:54:00.001-07:00

Finally mellow

2011-04-11T17:57:00.001-07:00

Pups Does Fetch

2011-04-08T09:57:00.000-07:00

Here's lookin at you

2011-03-21T13:42:00.001-07:00

Lucky

2011-03-17T11:29:00.000-07:00

Pot Roast

2011-01-10T18:07:00.001-08:00

Blizzzzard

2010-12-26T14:56:00.000-08:00

Christmas and the Next Day's Blizzard

2010-12-26T14:48:00.000-08:00

Photos from Drawing Recollections Opening

2010-10-13T05:03:00.000-07:00

Photo Credits to Colby Claycomb!

Opening @ 18 reasons next week

2010-09-30T06:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.18reasons.org/

Thursday, October 7th, 7-9PM, Drop-in 18th Hour: Drawing Recollections by Dori Latman: Art Opening Free; $5 suggested donation for wine Join us to celebrate Dori Latman's Drawing Recollections, a visually resonate and thought provoking new exhibition about family, memory, cooking and food. This exhibition continues Dori's interest in the intersections between drawing and cooking, the kitchen and studio, consuming art and food. On display will be selections from two series: Dinner Table Memoirs and Mom's Cookbook Collection. Drawing Recollections also features drawn and painted portraits made to resemble old family photos taken in and around the kitchen. Dori is coming in from New York for the opening, where she will cook up her family's latkes and fresh applesauce for us to enjoy.

Dori Latman received a Master of Arts in Urban Studies from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2009 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Massachusetts College ofArt in 2001. Her work has been shown at Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SOMArts Cultural Center, Queens Nails Projects, Root Division, The Garage Biennale, and Clara Street Projects. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

New Drawings!

2010-08-31T11:00:00.000-07:00

A new playground in Bushwick

2010-08-26T06:22:00.001-07:00

From the Hacienda

2010-08-13T21:35:00.000-07:00

Read article in SFGate Here

Photos from the Hacienda, a collaborative production of Scribe Winery and 18 Reasons

Talk20 documentation

2010-06-26T08:19:00.000-07:00

Photo Credits: Colby Claycomb

Talk 20 @ Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

2010-06-09T09:52:00.000-07:00

Dessert! Part III of Fritos and Champagne

2010-05-18T12:57:00.001-07:00

TASTE! at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2010-04-28T22:07:00.000-07:00

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

TASTE!, curated by Crystal Nelson, was in collaboration with Tawei Lin of Three Papayas, a weekly brunch in the Mission, and Niki Korth, a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute.

This Week!

2010-04-05T23:55:00.000-07:00

TASTE! Food. Art. Conversation.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Tue, Apr 6, 6–8 pm; Thu, Apr 8–Fri, Apr 9, 6–8 pm; Sat, Apr 10, 4–6 pm & Sun, Apr 11, 2–4 pm http://www.ybca.org/tickets/production/view.aspx?id=11116
TASTE! is an exclusive, all-sensory tour sure to give you something to talk about. Three Bay Area-based artists converge in YBCA's Grand Lobby Apr 6-11 for a site-specific, collaborative installation using food, art and conversation to respond to the exhibitions on view in our first floor galleries. Each day the menu take you somewhere new, as will the topics for discussion. TASTE! is FREE w/ YBCA Gallery admission, and includes an interactive salon hosted by NIKI KORTH, handcrafted spring lemon elixirs by DORI LATMAN and a global papaya excursion with Chef TA-WEI LIN, curator of the "cultural liberation" brunch at Doc's Clock. Also on view in the Grand Lobby, unique furniture from select students in the graduate Furniture Program at CCA.

Dori Latman's Dinner - a live cooking event
Adobe Books Backroom Gallery
Opening Reception, Wed, Apr 7, 7-9pm; Exhibition Apr 5-10, 2010
http://adobebooksbackroomgallery.blogspot.com/2010/04/dori-latmans-fritos-champagne-part-ii.html

Dinner can be solitary, in front of the television with a reheated slice of pizza. It can be on the go, with crumpled paper bags strewn across the back seat. It can be a meal shared with family and friends. Dinner, a live cooking event and exhibition, is a celebration of the moments when a simple plate of food becomes a landmark in one's own life. The event and exhibition respond to the culinary and social means through which one is nourished. The exhibition includes drawings and video works. The live cooking event will showcase a three-dish menu freshly cooked by Radio Africa and Kitchen [http://cts.vresp.com/c/?AdobeBooks/191ef9045e/TEST/39dc3bf9f8]. Together, these pieces highlight a range of approaches to cooking dinner.

Taste - A Garden of Earthly Delights
Root Division
April 10, 7-10pm http://www.rootdivision.org/041010.html

TASTE is an annual exhibit about food & food-related ideas that focuses on a different theme each year. This year’s theme is taking its inspiration from Hieronymus Bosch’s painting Garden of Earthly Delights, and the exhibition includes 26 artists interpreting this through drawing, painting, photography, collage, sculpture, video, & installation. Curated by Michelle Mansour & Jessica Wallen

SOMArts MOMENTS Part Three

2010-04-01T08:19:00.001-07:00

SOMArts Cultural Center
MOMENTS Part Three - Fal-Core
Friday, March 26, 2010

SOMArts MOMENTS Part Two

2010-03-21T07:52:00.001-07:00

SOMArts Cultural Center
MOMENTS Part Two - The Right of Return
Saturday, March 20, San Francisco

Fritos and Champagne on ARTBUSINESS

2010-03-18T12:49:00.001-07:00

http://artbusiness.com/1open/022610.html

SOMArts MOMENTS Part One

2010-03-07T22:01:00.000-08:00

SOMArts
March 6, 2010
100 Performances for the Hole - Take Two
Moments, Part One
SOMArts LINK

Southern Exposure Monster Drawing Rally 2010!!

2010-03-04T01:49:00.001-08:00

http://soex.org/event/217.html

Dinner Bells

2010-03-02T09:58:00.000-08:00

Somone's in the Kitchen - campfire song
Alice's Restaurant - Arlo Guhrie
Italian restaurant - Billy Joel

Fritos and Champagne: APPETIZER February 24-28

2010-02-27T09:06:00.000-08:00

Thank you Adobe Books Backroom Gallery!!
Part Two: DINNER April 5-10, Reception April 7
Part Three: DESSERT May 17-23, Reception May 19

People We Almost Know

2010-02-01T14:04:00.000-08:00

Listening Party Back Bar Documentation

2010-02-01T13:40:00.000-08:00

Video Credit: Colby Claycomb

Photo Credit: Colby Claycomb

Photo Credit: Colby Claycomb

Photo Credit: Colby Claycomb

The Listening Party

2010-01-26T08:27:00.000-08:00

bar proposal

2010-01-25T13:50:00.001-08:00

HULU watching

2010-01-18T22:52:00.000-08:00

Lemonade
John Cleese Teaches Wine

Forever Editing My Website

2010-01-14T12:30:00.001-08:00

www.dorilatman.com

Bon Appetit!

2010-01-07T17:49:00.000-08:00

Link to an iron pan for $2.50

Soon-to-be-a-compressed-concrete-coffee-bar

2010-01-03T21:26:00.001-08:00

Ode to Morandi

2009-12-30T19:16:00.000-08:00

Rolled with it

2009-12-30T19:03:00.000-08:00

The final days of this 60 day event WINTERFAT

If you were over here I would offer
You the spinach and feta snacks I rolled
This afternoon from what was left over
Took spinach, cream cheese, feta, herbs and fold

In the freezer went half batch for later
Reheat ten minutes three seventy five
A short practice run for when I cater
So when its party time I will survive

Make appetizers to get in the mood
Corkscrew open a bottle fizz champagne
Shhh… secret to New Year’s Eve finger food
Make it so good that no one can complain

Drink a martini dirty with olives
Toast to ending aughts with those that I loves

Potato Pollo Soup

2009-12-30T12:06:00.000-08:00

Potato Pollo Soup

Ingredients
2 medium potatoes
1 medium onion
1/4 bunch of green onions
4 tbsp butter
1/4 c flour
4 1/2 c chicken broth
1/4 tsp pepper
1 1/2 c cooked chicken
1 c broccoli
3/4 c green peas (i used frozen)
1 c milk

Directions
1. Melt butter on low heat in a heavy soup pot (avoid smoke)
2. Cook onions (1-2minutes till they sweat)
3. Constantly stir in flour (until its blended)
4. Slowly add broth
5. When boiling add potatoes and pepper
6. Reduce heat to medium low
7. Cover and simmer for 15 minutes
8. Ladle out the potatoes and puree in food processor (return to pot)
9. Stir in chicken, milk, broccoli, peas
10. Cook until broccoli is tender and chicken is hot throughout

turning craisins into compote

2009-12-29T10:20:00.000-08:00

First Roasted Chicken Ever!

2009-12-28T11:39:00.000-08:00

You intimidate me, roasted chicken
To clean out your insides, it seems perverse
All skin and bones whole in the Dutch oven
Preparing a nugget would be much worse

Serving tonight, attempt 7:30
Be sure to stay safe from salmonella
Hot soapy water, clean up what’s dirty
Cook the meat through, deliciously hella

Will roast with carrots, potatoes, garlic
Onions and can full of Miller High Life
Probably add crushed hot pepper for kick
Playing the game of the stay-at-home wife

Between cooking meals, I draw, write, draw, draw
Try not to think about my many flaws

Eggs-A-Boil

2009-12-27T16:58:00.000-08:00

GROCERY LIST

2009-12-27T16:35:00.001-08:00

Stoned Love

2009-12-27T10:42:00.000-08:00

Only a few days left

2009-12-23T17:15:00.001-08:00

WINTERFAT

Culture

2009-12-23T17:14:00.001-08:00

Laugh More, Live Longer

2009-12-17T16:21:00.000-08:00

Leaves

2009-12-16T16:24:00.000-08:00

Waiting for water

2009-12-03T08:46:00.000-08:00

to boil, to cook spaghetti
watch the drip slide down

Sidewalk Findings

2009-11-10T16:53:00.000-08:00

Been Winterfattening

2009-11-09T08:35:00.000-08:00

with an inspiring group of poets.

http://winterfat.wordpress.com/tag/dori/

Postcard Series 1 Sketch

2009-11-09T08:33:00.000-08:00

Just before
leaving the house.

With morning
yoga.

While watching
high tide.

During that
song.

Inside
a dream.

Under dust
bunnies.

Between
the hinges.

Alongside
some wine.

Entwined in
coffee grinds.

Breathing be
tween busses.

In drops
the rain

cussin’ cussin’
cussin’

and the
weather can feel

funky music
tekka maki

see you soon
darling darling darling

Last week at the Pumpkin Patch

2009-10-31T11:48:00.000-07:00

Unearthed rotten ones
to find the greatest of all
Linus would be proud

Tonight

2009-10-29T20:37:00.001-07:00

the hill was gorgeous
made me to remember to love
that moment of day

Broken Side Mirror

2009-10-29T20:21:00.000-07:00

on the road side tar
the side mirror was broken
like my insides were

Wheat Bread Loaves

2009-10-15T00:33:00.000-07:00

baked heavy and dry
only had a few slices
before growing mold

Baking Wheat Bread

2009-10-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

The following recipes were passed along by Elinor Domol Diamond.
Stay tuned for posted photos of finished loaves.
Recipes and Ingredients:

2 cups warm H2O
2 Tbsp baking yeast
½ cup sugar
¼ cup oil
1 tsp salt
6 1/2 - 8 cups flour
Dissolve yeast in water mixed with sugar. Let stand 5 minutes, until bubbles form. Pour into remaining ingredients. Knead dough - add more flour as needed. Dough will be soft, but shouldn't be sticky >

Option l: put dough in well-oiled plastic bag and let rise 1-3 days in fridge. Remove dough, form into 2 braids, let rise 4-6 hours (cold dough taes longer) until doubled, then bake in 350 oven for about 20 minutes.
Option 2: Let dough rise until doubled, about 1 hour, then form into 2 braids. Let rise until doubled, about another hour, then bake as above.
Option 3: Form dough into braids, let rise until doubled, and bake as above.

if you want something more rustic and crusty and time consuming:
sponge:
1/2 tsp active dry yeast
1c room temp water
1c bread flour
1c whole wheat flour
dough:
3 1/2 c whole wheat flour
1/2c rye flour
1 1/3 c room temp water
2 tbs honey
2 tsp salt
corn meal for sprinkling

make the sponge!
disolve the yeast in water then mix in flours until stiff and wet. cover with plastic wrap and let sit over night (or at least 5 hours)
make the dough:
mix flours, honey, water, and sponge. knead until smooth then knead in the salt for the last 3 min
put into a well oiled bowl and let rise til it triples in size! about 2 hours
take the dough on a lightly floured surface (flour your hands too) and fold the edges into the middle top, right,bottom, then left. transfer dough smooth side down into a colander lined with a floured dish towel cover it loosely with foil and let rise again for at least 45 min
put oven racks on the lowest and lowerr center
plave a baking pan on the lowest and a pizza stone in the lower middle and preheat your oven to 450
very carefully spinkly hot stone with cornmeal and quickly plop the dough onto hot stone (folds are now facing down) take scissors and cut three slashes on the top of the bread
carefully add 2c hot water into the hot baking sheet and close the oven! the steam is what creates a super yummy crust!
bake for about 35-40 min and crust is very dark brown -- turn off the oven, open the door, and let the bread sit in there for another 10 min --
remove and let cool to room temp before slicing about 2 more hours!
and that's it!!

Horse in Sacramento

2009-10-05T11:22:00.001-07:00

after Round Table
before getting in the car
pizza filled belly

Last Night's Fog Roll

2009-10-04T08:17:00.000-07:00

Been Tweeting

2009-09-29T19:37:00.000-07:00

TWEET!

Potrero Center on Monday Afternoon

2009-09-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

above the retail space formerly known as Shoe Pavilion

Safeway Pop

2009-09-20T22:26:00.000-07:00

Warhol can play out
Mid-aisle stop, Post film pop crop
Celebrity soup

See Art! List

2009-09-20T18:03:00.000-07:00

MAC/VAL - Musee d'art contemporain du val-de-marne
http://www.macval.fr/

Palais de Tokyo
http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/fo3/low/programme/

Musee du Moderne de la Ville de Paris
http://www.paris.fr/portail/Culture/Portal.lut?page_id=6450

La Maison Rouge
http://www.lamaisonrouge.org/en/

Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain
http://fondation.cartier.com/

Point Ephemere
http://www.pointephemere.org/

Le104
http://www.104.fr/

* Bring lunch to Jardin du Luxembourg and also Parc des Buttes
Chaumont - take buses!

They washed the streets every day with water from the Seine

2009-09-15T16:12:00.000-07:00

Hopscotch on Bryant Street

2009-09-14T12:06:00.001-07:00

Kids with chalk in hand
Make playgrounds on their front stoop
Hydraulic foot game

Hearting SF

2009-09-14T11:56:00.000-07:00

I LOVE YOU BECAUSE

2009-09-14T11:55:00.000-07:00

www.ilyb.org

Fountain Embrace

2009-08-25T01:29:00.000-07:00

Exhibitionists
Pretending not to notice
Jealous Onlookers

MAC/VAL garden

2009-08-25T01:28:00.000-07:00

Another great space
For contemporary art
Three trains and a bus

Rotisserie

2009-08-25T01:27:00.001-07:00

Roasted Chicken lures
Us to the bamboo table
Outdoor rigged kitchen

Sentimental Ducks

2009-08-25T01:26:00.000-07:00

A family of ducks
Dry fuzzy and in the shade
What a nice surprise

More Haikus on the Beach Body Blog....

2009-08-25T01:25:00.001-07:00

YOU CAN FIND THEM HERE

If I had a Euro for every time I was told

2009-08-24T01:39:00.001-07:00

Please have a croissant
For me. I would be as rich
As chocolate inside

Gericault (for Anna Schneider)

2009-08-24T01:35:00.000-07:00

Never would have known
Slaves and waves in this painting
If not for your mind

Mona Lisa

2009-08-24T01:34:00.001-07:00

With Bulletproof Glass,
Barriers, Security
Protect her from love

On the hottest day of the week, the Louvre was so crowded

2009-08-24T01:32:00.002-07:00

Hundreds in hallways
Passports, knapsacks, cameraphones
Remaking postcards

In the Rubens Room

2009-08-24T01:32:00.001-07:00

Surrounded by skin
Creamy and oily at once
Made to soak it in

Dancing

2009-08-23T03:09:00.000-07:00

From morning to night
2x4’s change their purpose
a platform for life

Apres Cinema

2009-08-23T02:01:00.000-07:00

Walked over the bridge
Looked up to see the tower
A sparkling moment

Bresson's Portrait of Giacometti (via moving image)

2009-08-23T01:59:00.000-07:00

Rain, telephone poles
and tall, framed windows act as
overcoat sculpture

Cinderella's Castle with Square Trees

2009-08-23T01:58:00.000-07:00

So perfect they’re pruned
Mecca for generations
Pretty pink palace

Binky at the Pompidou

2009-08-23T01:57:00.000-07:00

Stumbled across it
Looking at the crowds’ gaped mouths
Art outside can suck

The kitten bit me

2009-08-23T01:56:00.001-07:00

Needed a band-aid
To stop the blood from
Seeping out my skin

Taking a break

2009-08-13T00:12:00.000-07:00

So that I can think
In a blog-free space, quiet
with more intention

Got my Heeb on at the Jewish Art Museum

2009-08-12T01:14:00.000-07:00

En Rue du Temple
Avec headset and no fee
art and artifact

I'm not a vegetarian

2009-08-11T00:56:00.001-07:00

But avocados
So good with salt, tomato,
Cucumber and bread.

(Hard to see) Wait for me

2009-08-10T02:59:00.000-07:00

Browsing

2009-08-10T02:48:00.000-07:00

Walking the canal
I spotted this magasin
Heavy picture books

J'Adore Paris

2009-08-09T04:23:00.001-07:00

Line for Notre Dame
Was longer than tee shirt sleeves
Crowds made me run home

Lunch at the Palais de Tokyo

2009-08-08T02:39:00.001-07:00

Three cheese panini
And a can of Heineken
Just needed a plate

de l'eau

2009-08-07T02:03:00.000-07:00

Mercredi

2009-08-06T00:52:00.001-07:00

Escargot Raisin
Near the Parc des Buttes Chaumont
But how much butter?

Hi Barry McGee!
Nice to see you in Paris
without droopy face.

Mardi - Top Five

2009-08-05T02:50:00.000-07:00

Merde! Ou est ma velo???

C'est mon amie pres du Louvre.

Recherches

AMOUR

Parc des Buttes Chaumont

Mews Movie

2009-08-04T01:56:00.000-07:00

My Muse Mews

2009-08-03T07:57:00.001-07:00

Song Dong @ MoMA

2009-07-31T14:10:00.000-07:00

I Heart New York

2009-07-28T20:37:00.000-07:00

Frizzy hair humid eighty-degree day
Rain was torrential after Central Park
Under an awning with strangers I wait
For the clouds to roll uptown with their dark

Free cab promotion took me to MOMA
Five floors of art and collections of things
Donald Judd boxes and Pop star chroma
Contemporary not Dynasty Ming

Manhattan Gimlet, Brooklyn Fish and Chips
Visits to friends that tell me I should stay
A move to NY is more than just sips
Beloved city, there must be a way

To sustain a life under skyscrapers
Tiny apartment air conditioner.

July 28 Your Best Beach Body blog post

Gonna Have

2009-07-28T20:32:00.000-07:00

some Sorrento's Subs
with my three-year-old nephew
who calls them Rento's.

July 23 Your Best Body blog post