Playing With My Food ~
A journal about food, thought, travel, and life; by Chef & Raconteur Chaz French.

The Dimensional Rift of 1/10/16 ten years later

Today marks a decade since the dimensional rift occurred and tore time space apart throwing our reality into a new timeline and this fucking hellscape we have been living through. Today is 10 years since Bowie died and reality tore itself asunder at the loss. This isn’t just a joke, this is reality, this is […]

The Two Chaz Frenches Problem: A Preliminary Report on a Bifurcated Identity System Exhibiting Non‑Linear Sociocultural Instability

Institute for Applied Multiversal Studies, Department of Accidental Duplication Events Abstract In 19XX–20XX (exact date unknown due to temporal drift), the universe experienced a catastrophic clerical malfunction resulting in the spontaneous generation of two distinct yet entangled entities named “Chaz French.” This paper examines the resulting sociocultural turbulence, digital territorial disputes, and the catastrophically insulting […]

Mother

This is a poem I wrote which later became a song, it was written many years ago for my teacher Guru Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati.  I am posting it here tonight as a wish that she gets well soon. Mother I go to sleep, you are there I wake up, you are with me I […]

I Think That It’s A Good Day

I think that it’s a good day to call family and catch up I think that it’s a good day to go to the beach I think that it’s a good day for a barbecue with friends I think that it’s a good day to help those less fortunate than you I think that it’s […]

Another journey begins

Today I got my 2nd tattoo, I wanted a simple black band, no adornment, nothing tribal, or from another culture… I wanted something simple and plain.  Turns out simple isn’t easy, or cheap… When it was finished, I loved it immediately, and as I was going home I thought about what more I could do […]

Fashion! Turn to the left, Fashion! Turn to the right, Oooh, fashion!

It’s Fashion Week in NYC and mostly what that means to me is it’s a real pain in the ass to get to my favorite coffee place. This time though there’s something special going on, a tribute to the awesome career of Valentino Garavani. The exhibit called “The Red Thread” is only open for one […]

24:21 of Perfect Techno

I’ve always been a big fan of the British Techno band Sunscreem. From their first single “Love U More” from the album “O3” through numerous remixes, over several albums “Change or Die,” “New Dark Times,” and several compilations “Looking At You – The Club Anthems” “Ten Mile Bank”, “Out of the Woods”, and sporadic singles […]