The music you cook to?

Books on Tape! Nothing more delicious than being read a good story while prepping.

Happy birthday for 18 April. Hard to believe you are an Arian etc.

"Pop is stupid and contagious, here WE are now, entertain US...
hello, hello, hello..."

RIP!

Link below: FYI and/or Entertainment..and then enough already!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosism

I find it irritating and pretentious. Sorry. Although you are right Bevi - that Seinfeld episode was hilarious.

My memories of self address in the third person are of "Jimmy" in the Seinfeld classic episode. Priceless. And those "jumping" sneakers. Class Act.

Chris, thank you! The "majestic plural"! "Illeism"! My Scrabble game has just gone up a notch.

Wikipedia puts first western use of the "magestic plural" in 1169, Henry II, but they have a note "citation needed." They credit illeism, or speaking of oneself in the third person, to earlier times, including Julius Caesar. It "impart[s] an air of objective impartiality to the account." Seems like a trait that any poster on an anonymous board might like for himself (or itself).

Pierino, kind of like Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth. "Must WE be badgered repeatedly by my Lords?!" Now you're making me wonder how that form of referral became practice. Damn - yet another thing we need to look up. ;-) Also, moments after seeing the different mentions of Brazilian music on this thread, heard Susannah McCorkle singing the "Waters of March." So beautiful - but hard to chop by.

Today, whipping up some pasta dough, I was listening to "Lux Aeterna" by Clint Mansell ("Requiem for a Dream" theme). Pretty intense stuff. Starting out slow and got pretty rough into the kneading process. Then finished real nice by tucking it into a towel and under a bowl.
Perfect song. Must be played full blast.

p.s. I wish Pierino would not refer to itself in the third person

I love the jazz answers. Who said Anita O'Day?! Scat! - the sound of things sizzling without a scale or measurement. But I also appreciate the answer someone gave of "silence," other than the sound food makes when cooking. Probably a rare experience for most people.

If I were ever to have Brazilian music playing it would be orchestral of some form and it undoubtedly would be Villa-Lobos - his concertos, symphonies and chamber music come to mind. I do not speak Portugese so the singing would be out.

I love Brasilian music in the kitchen! Jobim, Gal Costa, Bebel Gilberto, Maria Monte...

I sing a lot when I'm cooking,usually brasilian music.When the stereo is on I listen to 60's rock like Beatles or Elvis,love tango(my grandfather was from Argentina)and classical music,especially Bach and Tchaikovsky(9 out of 10 dancers will tell you they love Bach and Tchaikovsky,and I'm no exception).Cool question...

The Supremes Greatest Hits

I love roots jazz/trad jazz -- old timey stuff from the early 20th century. Or CCR!

Anita O'day.

I'm putting in my two cents for a non-music choice! I love to listen to NPR and books on tape. I especially like Fresh Air with Terri Gross. I'm also trying to re-learn Spanish, so I've been talking a lot to myself (with assist from Rosetta Stone) and listening to Spanish language pop. If I need to really get a move on--as in, people arriving at my home for a dinner that is as of yet unprepared--I like fast paced, African drum music. I find I can really dance along without getting distracted.

Jonathan Richman is playing a show here for a few nights in June at a tiny, grimy, old punk rock bar. We are so excited to go see him again! That said, I tend to think of the Modern Lovers more as driving music but don't know why... I usually play my starred Spotify playlist on random (a pretty big mix of indie, rocker, old school country) and these last couple weeks I have been completely obsessed with Phosphorescent.

I also tend to cook in silence. This time of year, listening to the birds and focusing on the scene out of my windows is great stimulus. Also, after years on and off in the restaurant business, I was used to listening to music and now find the silence refreshing.

I am finding this thread very interesting. I also tend to cook in silence because I am usually photographing and taking copious notes as I go. At work, something trashy is usually playing on the radio, and I've become fairly expert at tuning it out.

I consider that a wonderful answer. I'm with you there. As as a cellist and pianist for some years, I know exactly what you are talking about regarding music when you are cooking. Noise is not my bag and most music is noisy these days. My work is intensely face-to-face so retreating to my kitchen overlooking a green leafy
garden filled with birds does it for me. Sometimes the simple things in life bring the most magic to a soul. Cooking in silence is a form of meditation with fringe benefits.

I actually love to cook in silence. Perhaps do to my training as a classical musician, when I listen to music, I want to pay attention to the music; I'm not a fan of background 'noise.' When I'm cooking, I love to focus on what I'm doing: listen to the various sounds the food cooking, note the smells of my ingredients and how they morph with cooking, and allow my thoughts to both wander and be heard. But that is just me :)

Sade, Bowie, Simply Red, Gotham Project

Sade, Bowie, Simply Red, Gotham Project

Unfortunately, for me to get dinner done efficiently with a four year-old around I have to listen to Elmo Radio on Pandora more often than I would like. *Sigh*

A big variety, mostly streamed from Pandora on my iPad. So, I have a follow-on question. What Pandora stations do you cook to?

Depending on mood and weather; opera, classical, soft jazz and AAA, old rock, South American, Caribbean, reggae...

You raised it not me. Oops raising is not a good word either. Really better stop right now now. By the way we still don't share the same taste even in classical music. Guess we're not meant to be together.

Cripes Pierino if that is your music preference can't imagine what your sex experiences are like. I better stop there.

Depends what I am cooking. Italian = opera. Mexican = mariachi. French = palm court classical. Burgers = springstein, etc.

I have a 5 CD changer in the kitchen. The current group on the machine are: Eliot Fisk (Vivaldi Concerti), José Feliciano (double album - 10 to 23/Fireworks), Anne Murry (I'll be seeing you), Quincy Jones (Walking in Space) and Willie Nelson (Stardust).

Great question, pierino!

Today's scones are Daft Punk flavoured.

I like to listen to NPR and some Coltrane.

Hands down, Bobby McFerrin!
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I bounce around. One day it'll be Wu-Tang Clan, Salt-N-Pepa, and Aretha Franklin. And then the next it's The Shins, Tori Amos, or loads and loads of K-pop/K-indie (Glen Check, f(x), Clazziquai, The Koxx).

This jazzer likes to cook to Joe Williams (Every Day I Have the Blues, Who She Do, Going to Chicago, etc.), Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Count Basie, Diana Krall, Sarah Vaughan: you get the picture!

Brahms string sextet no. 1 in B flat major, Op. 18. I laugh, I cry, I slice & dice.