Tao – Kevin Ray Archer

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #23: Buzz

Published March 15, 2024 by Kevin

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Pu'ehr and Sencha Tasting. Photo by Kevin Archer (c) 2018

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #19: Camellia

Published January 22, 2018 by Kevin

Next to water, tea is the most consumed beverage in the world. It did not flow around the world naturally or easily, even though it…

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Peace Meal Supper Club™: The Art of Edible Dissent

Peace Meal Supper Club™: The Art of Edible Dissent

Published December 11, 2015 by Kevin

“Peace Meal Supper Club™ is a unique evening of fine food and progressive discussion, focused on strengthening ourselves as agents for positive change. I create…

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Peace Meal Supper Club™ #6: Utopia

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #6: Utopia

Published December 26, 2014 by Kevin

Utopia glimmers throughout the menu for this month’s Peace Meal Supper Club™, as we face the New Year with thoughts of a New World. What…

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Peace Meal Supper Club™ #2: Ghost Festival

Savory Waffle with Vegetable Tempura and Spiced Plum Sauce

Peace Meal Supper Club™ #2: Ghost Festival

Published August 20, 2014 by Kevin

This Peace Meal Supper Club™ theme was announced 10 days before my father passed away. It was a strange stroke of coincidence. The themes inherent…

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Heritage

Heritage

Published February 21, 2014 by Kevin

Extended family gatherings were infrequent when I was young. But when my cousins, my brother, and I did see each other, a game of touch…

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Crafting Non-attachment

Published May 22, 2013 by Kevin

The restaurant business is largely about ego. As a venue or chef builds an identity, egos become inordinately inflated. The maintenance of an ego requires…

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Kobayashi Maru on Wry

Published April 9, 2013 by Kevin

I want to pick up the thought I left at the end of the previous entry. The idea that I appeared as my own ‘deus…

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Deus ex machina

Published March 29, 2013 by Kevin

There are these moments of realization. Some come swiftly: Sitting in your hermitage above Mendocino, staring at the Pacific arc, vision folds in upon itself…

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Effecting a Coup

Published March 22, 2013 by Kevin

In the past few weeks, I effected—and was affected by—a coup d’etat. I was both the usurper and the usurped. I survived victoriously. I want…

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