To polish rocks, nature uses water, sand and motion.
To polish ideas and identities, we use the same approach
— a mix of inspiration, grit and energy.
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
What's Cooking, a new stop motion video where food raps about its favorite subject, food.
Which brought to mind the modern internet classic, It's Getting Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot
Dj Dave tells it how it is. "You know the deal with the little shopping carts they got."
Forget bling, baby. "I'm just trying to find a decent pinot noir for under 20."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Now that's a snack! A jazz and culinary treasure uncoverd at the National Press Club:
On Jan. 29, 1971, five months before his death, Louis Armstrong performed for the last time, at the National Press Club in Washington, to celebrate the inauguration of Vernon Louviere, a journalist from New Orleans, as the club’s president.
Served with the jazz were bayou dishes including shrimp mousse, jambalaya and a Jamaica rum pie prepared by Christopher Blake, a New Orleans writer and chef.
While not the music from that night, you can tap your foot along to Louis playing Strutting with Barbecue.
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Champion Jack Dupree sings:
"Well the people next door want to know what the shoutins about,
when they smell them greens, it knock everybody out."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
This week's Sing Along Snack is dedicated to our friends from A Year in Burgundy who are off filming in Champagne right now. From the musical Gigi, Leslie Caron sings this version herself as she asks with excitement:
"Is everybody celebrated, full of sin and dissipated?"
"The night they invented champagne, it's plain as it can be, they thought of you and me."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
The B-52's looking 80's fabulous with possibly the only song on Earth to mention the obscure sea robin.
"In walked a jelly fish
There goes a dog-fish
Chased by a cat-fish
In flew a sea robin" (you get the picture, just dance it out)
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Italian advertising delivers with a musical tribute to a classic cheese. These veggies have dance moves to put the Fruit of the Loom boys to shame.
"Ero annoiato ed abbastanza giù, Non c’era niente, neanche in TV
All’improvviso, tutto è cambiato, Del suo sapore mi sono innamorato."
[I was bored and quite depressed, There was nothing to do, and nothing on TV
All of a sudden, everything changed, I fell in love with his taste]
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
The Beatles classic, sung by the Muppets, with a halibut cameo and starfish playing on scallop shell drums. See you at the Boston Seafood Show!
"I'd like to be under the sea, In an octopus' garden with you"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Happy Mardi Gras! Leave it to New Orleans to make a tiny crustacean sultry. Elvis could sing them right out of the water with this song from the 1958 film King Creole
"Now take Mr. Crawfish in your hand
He's gonna look good in your frying pan
If you fry him crisp or you boil him right
He'll be sweeter than sugar when you take a bite"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
With all that sticky-sweet Valentine's Day candy now on sale, our snack gets a sugar kick. No one does it better than The Candy Man, Willy Wonka.
"The candyman can cause he mixes it with love and makes the world taste good"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
This Sing Along Snack was submitted by our favorite fishmonger/poet/office rapper and Southerner, Dale Sims.
Phil Harris & Johnny Cash sing about their favorites (song starts at 1:25)
"She's got backbones and turnip greens.
Ham hocks and butter beans
You, me and New Orleans
An' that's what I like about the South"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Frank Sinatra sings The Coffee Song about the zillion tons of coffee that "could percolate the ocean in Brazil"
Then Squeeze with the New Wave classic, Black Coffee in Bed
"there's a stain on my notebook where your coffee cup was"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
The Mamas & the Papas show you how to Sing For Your Supper
"Song birds always eat if their song is sweet to hear"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Hot Tamale was submitted by one of our younger readers. When we suggested that it was, perhaps, kind of dumb, she countered that it's better than the old fashioned stuff we run. Well, the kids are alright, and this song is awfully catchy.
"What kind of tamale do you like? Hmm, the hot kind is what I like."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Amuse Bouche, a tribute to molecular gastronomy, by Fischerspooner feels as trippy as liquid olives on a cotton candy breeze
"A hint of this, a drop of that. Lick your lips and don't look back"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Eggs & Sausage by Tom Waits takes this snack on a spoken word groove
"As the lead pipe morning falls, waitress calls: eggs and sausage and a side of toast..."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Canned Goods by Greg Brown
"Taste a little of the summer. Grandma put it all in jars."
One of Polish's favorite hometown radio stations, KFOG, plays a variety of music all the time, but with the cold December chill setting in (even here in California), we particularly like to hear this song by Greg Brown.
A bit about KFOG.....Throughout the year, the KFOG team puts together all kinds of community supported initiatives such as Live from the Archives albums. Musicians donate the songs and KFOG donates the proceeds to Bay Area Food Banks.
To date, Fogheads have raised over $4,200,000 to help fight hunger in our community.
Proceeds from KFOG Live from the Archives CDs benefit the 7 Bay Area Food Banks:
Alameda County Community Food Bank
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Dweezil Zappa sings Call Any Vegetable by his dad Frank, with a lot of help from the band. (Some language at end of song NSFW. It's Zappa, what do you expect?)
"You know, a lot of people don't bother about their friends in the vegetable kingdom..."
It's never too early or too late in the day for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Forbidden Fruit, by Oscar Brown, Jr., sung by Nina Simone
"Ever since the days of Eden, folks been sinful, my. Nowadays they're even eatin' apples in their pie."
In our love of all things food, we have a special love for songs about food. We wet our whistles with Fatback Louisiana, USA back in our Chefs Collaborative Summit round up.
Now, we're kicking off a new occasional blog feature: Sing Along Snacks
It's never too early or too late in the day for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Shrimp Boats, by Jo Stafford, sung by Dorothy Collins in 1952 in a style as fluffy as a biscuit.
And then a Ska version by Jerry Jackson that you can really dance to.
