Thy Will Be Done 🙏

Design
I've never seen anything like this before and wish we had one in Montreal. The 2D Restaurant in Chicago has been painstakingly (the job took two years to complete) painted all in white, from top to bottom, and then "illustrated" with black lines so that the entire establishment has the look of a two-dimensional comic strip. It must be a bit of a trip to walk in and find your bearings but, wow, what a creative way to give your customers a unique experience. It's quirky and clever and simply beautiful all at the same time!

Inspiration
This Sunday, August 7, will mark 40 years since baseball player Jim Rice saved a little boy's life at Fenway Park. I hadn't heard this story before but a friend recently posted about it on Facebook and it intrigued me so I looked it up. I was glad to find this article detailing what happened.

Movie
On Saturday evening I went out with a couple of cousins to see Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (based on the 1958 novel by Paul Gallico, which was first made into a film starring Angela Lansbury and Omar Sharif in 1992). I thought it was delightful and fresh. It's the story of an ordinary older woman, a widow in London who cleans houses to support herself, who manages to fulfill her dream to travel to Paris and visit the House of Dior. She wants to buy a spectacular dress custom made by the great fashion designer. But things don't go quite the way she had dreamed. I highly recommend this film, in select theatres right now.

Recipe
Yesterday, my parents and I went out for lunch with a couple from church. While waiting for our meals, at a restaurant across the street from the world-famous St-Viateur Bagel, I mentioned that I'd tried making bagel chips some weeks ago. That led to a conversation about how simple (and delicious!) homemade pita chips are. When I went grocery shopping a couple of hours later, I picked up an extra bag of pita bread and then baked a big batch of pita chips. (My excuse is that a friend was coming over in the evening and I needed snacks.) Anyway, they were delicious (and are all gone by now). Here's the recipe I followed, if you want to try making some. My only suggestion is to bake the pita a little longer than suggested, especially if the pita is really fresh and soft.

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