From the beach to the mountians, still liveing it up california style.

It is the greatest of all advantages, to enjoy no advantage at all. He is the richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Heven is under are feet as well as over our heads.

In the long run men only hit what they aim at so they better aim at something high.

love

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someones bad qualities, because they somehow complete you.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that is what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, a person who show you everything tht is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, trobbing moment.

Love is that condition in which the happieness of another person is essential to your own.

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

You know you are in love when you can`t fall asleep, coz the reality is finally better than the dream.

Love does not begin and end the way we think it does. love is a battle, love is a war, love is allways growing.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Alot of my time in brazil was spent studying, cooking, working, or in the gym. But as you can see there was alot of beautiful experiences in between, this picture simbolizes that for me.

Just for the record, Fabio is a guinness. His passion for food is unimaginable.


This is another one of the plates fabio and I created. Salt cod, potato, and onion and rice.

I got good reviews for this peanut butter pie but in reality the ice cream took the show.

This is one of the most beautiful things I saw in brazil.

Still a showoff.






Still alive

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I love this picture, the contrast between the cute puppy and this poor mans life, it simbolizes so much about brazil

Fabio told me that this is the uglyist building in sao pallo, look closly it is scary.

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A recreation of the classic garzpaco soup. Fabio helped me with the idea and the plating. Mass production for a birthday

This is the other plate served for the birthday. Tenderloin stufffed with mushrooms and wraped with brazilian chard, and chesse ravioli with mushroom reduction for the sauce.

This was delicious, Quail stuffed with a semolina and sauage mixture and redwine rissoto.

I appologize for all the pictures of pork but it was an intresting adventure for me.

Pork balls and roasted pork

the anatomy of a pig

Hairy pig

Pig parts

I have a beautiful life, better than 99%of the rest of the people on this earth, thanks to my friends and mostly my family. I am reminded of this when I see this picture. Thank you

This was one of my favorite meals so simple but at the same time such a nice atmospher. They called this small barbeque a china hat. They started be placeing small cubes of fat on top of the hot grill, once the fat started to sweat we used it to rub down the bars. Everyone started to place meat beansprouts on the grill like in the picture. We wraped it up in lettuce with rice and diped it in soy sauce. So gooood!

Erics Blog

Well I made this blog mostly for the friends and family that I lost touch with. I truly am sorry for not keeping and touch and I thought this is the least I could do to make up for it. Well if you did not already know I am now working in a porgugess restaurant in San Pallo, Brazil. When I was a kid I hated citys and now I am working in the 3rd bigist city in the world. The reason I left Switzerland was to study under my roommate from culinary school. I have been in Brazil for little over a month now and will stay till march(still havent figured out the date). After my stay in Brazil I will finsh up my last term in school.