I feel so full that I need to unbutton my pants, but with emotions. Taking a step backward, placing some order, and identifying where everything began, where the passion, love, and faith for this new path of life started, can be challenging.

This photo was taken 6 years ago as a statement of intent: love for details, apparent simplicity, taste for games, and ability to surprise.

As a result of circumstances or perhaps as part of a cycle, this recipe is part of a personal reflection: Who am I?

I propose a journey through time and reflection through a series of ingredients, onion, garlic, saffron, fire, and the spoon as a symbol of being: do not treasure the past; create from what you've learned.

“The fact of continuing in an opinion or course of action in spite of difficulty or opposition”.

A persistent attitude is one of the 27 characteristics found in the greatest innovators (KH Kim, The Creativity Challenge: How we can recapture American Innovation, Prometheus, September 2016).