Oct 11 2008
Weekend Philosophy: Malcolm Gladwell and Spaghetti Sauce
A puffy-hair intellectual captured by photographer Brooke Williams
This is actually the second installment of what will hopefully be a weekend series aptly renamed Weekend Philosophy.
Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer and essayist for The New Yorker and bestselling author whose most recent works Blink and TheTipping Point explore modern sociology in the areas of business and society. While his 2000 book The Tipping Point took a scalpel, so to say, to how ideas spread, his 2005 book Blink explores snap, intuitive and seemingly instantaneous judgments and how they might not be so snappy after all.
The following lecture is from the 2004 Technology, Entertainment, Design conference (TED). In the spirit of the the conferences theme of “happiness” that year. Gladwell discusses his ideas though the unconventional lens of spaghetti sauce.
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For more on Gladwell including an archive of his essays visit malcolmgladwell.com.
Wax… spaghetti sauce?
Stumble It!
threedegrees spaghetti sauce:
3 bottles of India Pale Ale(for the cook’s consumption)
4 tomatoes, ripe
2 8 oz. cans tomato paste
24 oz. water
1 cup sugar
chopped onion
diced orange pepper
diced yellow squash
chopped fresh basil
chopped fresh oregano
diced/minced garlic to taste
dash of Vietnamese cinnamon
thoroughly mix ingredients
slow cook for 4-6 hours
refrigerate, warm and serve following day
Dude! You’re funny! We’re hangin’ out brotha!
You’d think there would be some annual Today.com blogger get together or something where we could do that. If not, let’s start one!
Well I’m in NY… so hells yeah anyway!