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The Climate Summit

September 20, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

Brazil and the world at the 75th UN General Assembly

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Ricky Toledano

Ricky Toledano

A native of Chicago, Ricky Toledano has lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for over twenty years as a writer, translator and teacher. [a]multipicity is multi-lingual collection of reflections through the humanities.

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It has enough garlic to kill Dracula. There should be no reason that pasta aglio e olio couldn’t kill a sinusitis, right? That’s why it was part of my battle plan for the day after I arrived back home, a trip that required two excruciating intercontinental flights. Besides, why else would anyone make pasta with nothing more than garlic and olive oil? Other than being Neapolitan, I have no idea about the Italian history of the dish, but I imagine the end of the winter: the food is gone; there are no vegetables; you ate all the preserved meats; you are left with cheese rinds you cut up and ration to flavor broth; the children whimper in hunger; now what? With the great creativity of the Italian people who never surrender, and who are capable of making magic out of nothing, the traditional recipe is with either linguine or spaghetti, a generous amount of olive oil, many cloves of garlic, red pepper and parsley. That’s it. Simple, quick and easy, right? I’ve always found it amusing that that is what they all say. There is nothing easy about aglio e olio. Actually, I think it is one of the most difficult of pasta sauces to cook, because it is actually almost uncooked. You have to have the right tools: a good mortar and pestle; a heavy steel or iron pan (no aluminum contraption, coated or not, will do!) And you have to have some knowledge about garlic (one little piece of burned garlic is more unforgiving and stronger than an entire head of garlic that was been sautéed slowly with an almost equal amount of parsley in a pan heavy enough to protect it). You had better have everything you need at hand, because it is a dish that is “assembled” and not “cooked”; there will be no time to revert mistakes as you might with a slow cooking sauce. For nutritional reasons, however, I wanted to add broccoli. I remembered my sister’s recipe, an old Roman one, in which broccoli is quickly sautéed with olive oil, garlic, red pepper and lemon zest. Therefore, I used eight cloves... Full text: https://amultiplicity.com/2019/10/15/how-to-kill-dracula/ #amultiplicity #pasta #aglioolio #aglioeolio #broccoli #cooking #italianfood #sauteed #inthekitchen #garlic

I'll never tire of it! My latest shots of the Lodhi Garden at: https://amultiplicity.com/2018/12/12/the-lodi-garden/ #amultiplicity #lodhigarden #lodigarden #lodhi #photography #travelphotography #dilliwale #dilli #delhi #delhiblogger #india

When not in jail or walking around to unite India, this is where the Great Soul lived, founding the SATYAGRAHA movement, the unwaivering, unshakable commitment to Truth: that which cannot be defeated; that which is invincible. I held back tears when I saw his desk, the place where Gandhi sat, writing and spinning khadi cotton thread, dedicated to a life of simplicity and the opposite of consumption, because he knew well that nobody can achieve anything in this world unless they dedicate some time everyday to working with their hands, producing their own needs while giving the mind a time-out from unending siege of thoughts and desires of dissatisfaction. It’s a discipline I am grateful I learned long ago from another great man whom I am proud to call my father. He forced me to work. Of course, I didn’t like it as a child. But he didn’t care what I liked, because he was not trying to be my friend. He was my father. But like all men — including Gandhi — my father was flawed. Although he was forceful, he was too gentle. I wish he had been an angrier man with more tenacity, ready to give others the limits they had been asking for. That is very easy to say, because no one is ever 100% satisfied with another individual — especially the family members and leaders from whom we expect nothing less than perfection. We will inevitably find something wrong with others, but we never go inside ourselves to get past the inconsistencies, all the prejudice, the hypocrisies, and our habits in order to reach the Truth. Only when that happens can COMPASSION be born. Compassion will destroy all evil. Always. So, yes, maybe Gandhi was flawed, maybe he made some mistakes, just as my father and everyone else has. It doesn’t matter! Gandhi stands out among men for his effort to go inside, to find the Truth. And when he came out, he knew he was invincible. He had already won; it was a question of time. He would not obey liars and perverse “laws”. And that was final. That is because people... Full text: https://amultiplicity.com/2019/10/13/the-sabarmati-ashram/ #amultiplicity #gandhi #mahatmagandhi #sabarmati #truth #civildisobedience #compassion #nowisthetime #satya #satyagraha

I had to see it for myself. I couldn't believe human hands could make that out of stone. #amultiplicity #sidisaeedmosque #sidisayyedmosque #ahmedabad_instagram #ahmedabad #mosquearchitecture #gujarat #stonecarving #gujarattourism #incredibleindia

The Gujarati thali. A little sweet for my taste, but delicious. #amultiplicity #gujarat #ahmedabad #foodies #indiantravelblogger #indiaclicks #indianfood #gujaratithali #gujaratifood

Discovering different roti in Gujarat. #amultiplicity #kadakrumali #kadakroomali #roti #havmor #ahmedabad_instagram #gujarat #bread #flatbread

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