“BE GOOD”

At the end of this reading, I had two thoughts well impressed in my mind: I am very proud of what I do to the extent that I can, and Dear Jesus, please do not give up on humanity even when it deserves it …

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” “Be good.” Every time God thinks about the marvelous simplicity of that sentence, his unique and original commandment, another thought automatically takes over: that asshole of Moses. What kind of arrogant dickhead throws the one commandment he has been given down the toilet and pulls out ten invented from scratch? “[1]

At the end of June, the Einaudi promotion arrived in the bookstore, when placing it on the relevant shelf a cover leaps to my eye: a smiling and winking Instagram Jesus on a red-orange background. The title “The second coming” is a nice provocation and considering that it is next to tomes of a certain socio-political importance it makes me laugh. It intrigues me. I read the plot. I read the opening words. Irreverent.

I’ll put it back.

Three days later I take it back, I read the first five pages. I laugh. I cry. I ponder.

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“Save Fantasy, Save the World!!”

I have always loved superheroes, the idea that there are extraordinary people who can do unspeakable things for the rest of humanity. It especially fascinates me when the powers of these supernatural beings come not from distant planets or nuclear radiation, nor from animals or poisons, but from themselves. From evolution. From that 70% of our brain that we do not use and that perhaps, who knows, could hold the key to transformation.

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Okonomiyaki
(the recipe is taken from an Expo2015 cookbook)

Ingredients for 2 Okonomiyaki

For the dough:

– 300 grams Flour
– 2 eggs
– 400ml of water
– Head cabbage to taste
– Bulldog sauce
– Prepared for Okonomiyaki

For the dressing

“Okonomi” means “whatever you want”, and that’s why we can indulge ourselves when we prepare this dish, trying new versions for each new episode! It is an excellent dish to help us empty the refrigerator.
For a fish-based okonomiyaki we will use cuttlefish, shrimp and octopus, while if we want to make a meat-based okonomiyaki we will use beef carpaccio and pork belly.
Just before serving the okonomiyaki, add some tonkatsu sauce.

Preparation:

We mix the flour with water, clean the cabbages, cut them very finely and add them to the dough, then add all the other ingredients cut into small pieces.
We mix until we get a…

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“The difficult PATH to good”

I love when a TV series makes you think, it puts you in front of a moral dilemma and with each episode it confuses you more and more… it is not a static product, it is not a passive relationship. This show brings the viewer to take an active part, questions which faction to choose, and – for the first time – put a completely different point of view on religious cults.

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Winter, apartment under renovation, there are homeless seeking shelter against sub-zero temperatures, the builder chases them away. He has to do it. But then he goes out quickly, comes back shortly after with a shopping bag and a couple of steaming sandwiches, goes to the homeless and leaves them everything.

Is it the proximity to Christmas, or – like me – did he just finished The Path and had a great need to do good to humanity, seasoned with a vague but constant sense of guilt?
Perhaps he is just a generous man, the fact is that it is rare to see such a gesture and it remains impressed on me.
Especially since, as I mentioned, I have just finished to watch the second season of one of the most ambiguous series ever.
How thin is the line between good and evil?
When we do a good action, are we…

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“Pork Ribs for the nuclear Apocalypse”

Fortunately, to alleviate my despair, RaiDue decided to broadcast one of the craziest TV series of that time and surely one of the unluckiest, so much so that it was canceled twice.
But don’t be put off, because I promise you it’s a dystopian and adrenaline-fueled series that you can’t miss.

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Kansas Style Pork Ribs
(the recipe is a reinterpretation of my mother, Mena of a recipe taken from Expo2015)

Ingredients for 4 people
-4 slices of pork ribs
-2 and ½ cups of brown sugar
-1 small onion, finely chopped
– 3 cups of water
– 1 cup of tomato paste
– 2/3 cup of apple cider vinegar
– ¼ cup of molasses
– ½ cup of mustard powder
-1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper
-1 tablespoon of smoked paprika
-1 tablespoon of garlic powder
-1 tablespoon of onion powder
-2 tablespoons of salt
-3 teaspoons of freshly ground black pepper
-2 tablespoons of vegetable oil
– ½ teaspoon of cayenne pepper
– 1 teaspoon of salt
– Barbecue sauce to taste

Method

Remove the fine white membrane covering the bone from the ribs and mix together the brown sugar, mustard powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, salt and…

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“BE GOOD”

" “Be good.” Every time God thinks about the marvelous simplicity of that sentence, his unique and original commandment, another thought automatically takes over: that asshole of Moses. What kind of arrogant dickhead throws the one commandment he has been given down the toilet and pulls out ten invented from scratch? "[1] At the end …