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An annual tradition on one side of my family is a New Year’s
Day lunch at Feast Buffet. An all-you-can-eat Asian seafood buffet in Renton,
it requires planning and strategy. Mine is to focus only on foods that I don’t
eat regularly at home. That means I skip all the salads, vegetables and fruit
and go straight for the sushi and sashimi. (Although I can’t imagine who bothers
with stuff like mac and cheese or French fries at an Asian seafood buffet,
those are on offer, too.)
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Since most of my companions are people I usually see only once
a year at this event, I never sketch while I eat because I want to spend the
time talking with them. But my sushi at Moriyama had been so much fun to
sketch that I decided to draw my buffet meal later from photos (after walking 8,000 steps as partial mitigation of my gluttony -- urp!). I made an
effort to arrange things on the plates so that the pieces would be easy to see.
Originally my intention was to label each piece, but by the time I got home, I couldn’t
recall all the ingredients in the various rolls. To evoke the continual,
gluttonous nature of an all-you-can-eat, I used a Seawhite of Brighton concertina sketchbook (which will eventually end up with Mary Jean). I regret that I couldn’t eat more -- the sketches would have looked more impressive stretched
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| It got cut off in my scan, so this photo includes the small bowl of coffee ice cream at far right. |
I too am puzzled by the sudden appearance of mac & cheese in places where I can't see how it goes with what else is on the menu. It has risen to gourmet status it seems, that humble, cheap, filling side dish from a box we served with hot dogs, that sustained us early in our marriage when we were short on money. Fun to see your many buffet items spread across the folds of your accordion sketchbook.
ReplyDeleteThere is something really pleasing about this sketch. Not sure if it’s the colors, the simplicity of the shapes, or? It’s very soothing to look at.
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