Crowd Saucing

photograph by Hallie Cohen

Crowd sourcing is what people do when they use Go Fund Me.  Perhaps they need money for a film or theater project. Maybe they're just broke and need some dough. Crowd sourcing is what occurred on Rome's Gianicolo Hill, New Year's Eve. There fireworks were coming so fast and furiously you felt you were in a war zone minus the death. It was a mixture of Pamplona and Guernica with crowds surging both towards and away from the blasts. Anthony Bourdain left his imprint on Rome as does Stanley Tucci and both undoubtedly witnessed the kind of crowd saucing that occurred on New Year's, in Rome's restaurants. Wonderful sauce and spices flood the dishes in any Roman restaurant. Even if you don't drink, you're likely to get sauced--no matter what kind of restaurant you choose to attend. 

read "Pet Buddha" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

listen to James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti singing "It's a Man's World"

and listen to "I Love to Love (But My Baby Just Wants to Dance)" by Tina Charles (1975)

and listen to "Band of Gold" by Freda Payne with Belinda Carlisle