Choose joy.

"Have a nice day." - Artistry with cholesterol as 

seen through the window of Papaya Dog on 

14th Street and 1st Avenue in NYC.

Happy New Year everyone! From the January 2011 issue of Vanity Fair, chef and businessman Mario Batali's responses to the following questions (among others) in the magazine's Proust Questionnaire:


What is your most marked characteristic?
Happiness.


What is the quality you most like in a man?
Intelligence.


What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Intelligence.


What do you most value in your friends?
Wit.


What is it that you most dislike?
Lazy execution.


How would you like to die?
Instantly in my sleep at the age of 145.


What is your motto?
"Choose joy."