photo by Jean Luc Dushime
Hometown: Clovis, CA
Favorite Literati Drink: Egg Nog Latte
Favorite Table: The ones with cushy bench seats
While at Literati Cafe, Heather works on writing her book, “Making it in High Heels.” She also sends emails and works on facebook for her job as a spokesperson and fitness expert.
Favorite Quote:
“Have the courage to be yourself here and now.”
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Hometown: The World!
Favorite Literati Drink: Chai Latte
Favorite Table: The one under Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “100 years of Espresso”
When at Literati Cafe, Kimberly works on her PeaceCorp application but when she’s procrastinating on that, she reads poetry, friends’ blogs, social justice articles and lots & lots of books.
Favorite Quote:
“If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.”
– William Wilberforce
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photo by Jean Luc Dushime
Hometown: Greenwood Village, CO
Favorite Drink: Iced Coffee
Favorite Table: Beneath the young Sean Connery
Andrew works on one-act plays, scripts, and songs while at Literati Cafe.
Favorite Quote:
“The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people.” – Charles de Gaulle
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The Literati Lady and Jean Luc Dushime review the photos of Literati customers
Thanks to everyone who let us take their portrait for our 10th Anniversary Celebration! Photographer, Jean Luc Dushime, and the Literati Lady had a great time getting to know you and capturing your essence. We look forward to sharing the Mug Shots soon! Stay tuned.
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Literati Cafe was created to nourish the minds and bodies of LA’s most creative writers and thinkers with food for thought.
In honor of Literati Cafe’s 10th Anniversary, celebrated photographer, Jean Luc Dushime, will be taking black and white portraits, similar to those on our walls, of our creative customers to get a better idea of who they are and how they use the Literati inspiration.
Join the Literati Lady to get your “Mug Shot” taken of you enjoying a “mug” of your favorite Literati beverage.
Sunday, December 5th 2010
9 – 11 am
Literati Cafe
The first 25 people to r.s.v.p. to LiteratiLady@gmail.com will get their favorite drink for free.
By participating you grant Literati Cafe and Jean Luc Dushime the permission to use your photograph in any and all publications including web site, facebook, Literati coffee table book, or the walls of the cafe without payment or any other consideration in perpetuity.
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Here’s something to be grateful about: Literati Bar & Grill will be hosting two seatings for Thanksgiving at 3 and 5:30pm.
Enjoy a delicious dinner, traditional or alternative, with friends and family without the hassle of cooking and cleaning.
Celebrate Thanksgiving Day at
Literati Bar & Grill
$45.00 Per person – $14 Kids – Kids under 3 eat free
First Course
Farmers Market Crudite
Baby carrots, French green beans, Portobello mushroom, asparagus, cherry tomato & Goat Cheese Mousse
Second Course
Choice of one
Wild Arugula Salad
Spinach, Danish blue cheese, cranberries, crisp apples, candied walnuts, banyuls vinaigrette
or
Cinderella Pumpkin Soup
Brown butter, chives, crème fraiche
Or
Goat Cheese & Artichoke Tartine
Grilled artichoke, lemon, shallots, chives, toasted baguette
Main Course
Choice of one
Diestel Farms Free Range Turkey
Brined Organic Turkey, Sourdough Apple sage Stuffing, Garlic mashed potato, haricot vert, carmelized shallots, Turkey Giblet gravy, cinnamon Orange cranberry sauce
or
Pumpkin & Shrimp Ravioli
Broccoli Rabe, roasted kaboucha squash with Sage Brown Butter & shaved Parmesan
or
Wild Alaskan Salmon
Wild three Grain rice pilaf, Scarbourough Farms baby carrots and lemon beurre blanc
Dessert
Apple Tart
Salted Caramel and Housemade Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Housemade Pumpkin Cheesecake
Cinnamon Whipped Cream and Walnut Crème Anglaise
Hot Fudge Sundae
Housemade Vanilla Ice Cream, hot fudge, whipped cream, with toasted almonds & cherry
Traditional Pumpkin Pie & Whipped Cream
Kids Menu
Choice of 1 Entrée & 1 Dessert $14.00
Entrée
Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese
Turkey Meatball pizza
Turkey Dinner: Mashed Potato, green beans, cranberry sauce
Dessert
Mini Hot Fudge Sundae
Apple Tart & Vanilla Ice Cream
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Thank you to all our participants in this year’s Creative Genius Poetry Contest. We’re proud to announce the winners:
The Philosopher Visits Literati Cafe
The philosopher took a seat
at one of the human-sized square tables
with a white mug filled with regular black coffee.
The contrast of round curve and square angle
condensed a random thought
of Euclid’s notorious geometry book —
a dose of strong, wakeful Greek logic.
At first sip, he marveled at how coffee
becomes cappucinos, lattes — a world of different essences.
“Like atoms for Democritus, God for Spinoza,” he mused.
MY LITERATI CAFÉ
Feed my head with delicious words
Sweet seduction stimulating senses
Savor the flavor, my cup of tea
Nourish the soul, mind, body, me.
Ingredients, organic and surrounding
The red heart of a writer’s spirit flows
Such energy perfect for my creativity
Breed romance, rumors, ingenuity.
Atmosphere intelligentsia parade
My love, my inspiration, my Literati Café.
Oh my dear sweet Literati
I’ve only known you for a short time.
But I wish I could own you,
so you could be mine.
The few times we’ve met
I was pleasantly pleased
Your cinnamon rolls satisfy
all of my needs.
So lucious, so gooey,
So perfectly sweet.
Brings me down to my knees.
Then back up on my feet.
Ode to a Cafe
Imagination steaming from the simple white latte cup
An unadorned but kindred spirit of the Grecian urn.
Without lovers in perpetual delight,
And no comparison between the creator
and the created.
Still an object for conjecture.
Keats must have found his own Literati Cafe
where his imagination flourished
and distilled his brief moment in time,
his penned thoughts lasting forever.
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Amanda Baumgarten, 27, Los Angeles “Don’t underestimate Amanda,” warns chef Ben Ford of Ford’s Filling Station, where Amanda Baumgarten worked before her recent turn as sous-chef at Water Grill. The 27-year-old had her start in the London kitchens of La Tante Claire and Le Gavroche after training at the city’s Cordon Bleu, followed by sous-chef stints for respected L.A. names like Melisse and Patina. And if the Facebook photo of her firing a handgun wasn’t enough to terrify the competition, Ford calls her “tough” and “battle-ready.” “[She’s] one of the most talented cooks I’ve ever worked with. I used to throw her curve-balls she routinely hit out of the park, so no doubt she will do well in this competition.” But does this Scorpio with a background in butchery also have a softer side?
Brigitte Kouba, of Brentwood’s Literati Cafe and Literati Bar & Grill, went to high school with Baumgarten and thinks the chef could win the competition by strength of character alone. “Amanda has always been fiercely intelligent, fabulously charismatic, and wildly creative,” Kouba tells Grub Street. “Her intelligence will make her a strong competitor, her personality will make her a favorite among viewers, and her creativity in the kitchen will blow the judges away. She’s smart and savvy with a great sense of humor, so she definitely has what it takes to become the next Top Chef.”
If that’s the case, Baumgarten may have less time to pursue her Facebook interests, which include “harper’s, new yorker fiction podcast, [and] ira glass.” She claims to not own a television, but that’s probably why she has so much time to read. Favorite titles include In Cold Blood, Cat’s Cradle, and Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas. Follow her on Twitter, just in case she decides to post more than three times.
For the full article, go here.
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Where can two people go in Los Angeles for a satisfying breakfast, beverages and crossword puzzles for $20? According to the adorable couple who write The Momentary Present blog, they went to Literati Cafe on a Saturday morning and enjoyed Green Tea, Mint Lemonade, Tony’s Omlette, and creme brulee cheesecake while trying their best at solving the variety of crossword puzzles.
from The Momentary Present blog
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