RESTAURANTS: As the FDA requires restaurants to use stainless steel pots and
vats, minimize restaurant patronage, especially at buffets where salty and acidic food, like tomato sauces and pastas
sit out
in stainless warming trays for extended periods of time.
Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming
vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair
sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man
in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight
in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed
in the distance, though he himself was standing
in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter
in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.