Les Chevaliers de Malte

In the 1950s Roger Peyrefitte wrote the book “Chevaliers de Malte”. Peyrefitte was a French diplomat and writer, highly acclaimed by the readers. A mixture of historical novel, a criminal intrigue and an anticlerical plot, Peyrefitte paints a vivid portray of the insides of the Vatican, a state inside the state, a place where hidden secrets and bought loyalties were disguised as divine canons.
Peyrefitte traces the story of the Chevaliers de Malte“, the heirs of the Knights of the Hospital or St John’s, the military order who replaced the Templars, the mythical warrior monks who were destroyed in the XIII century.
The Knights of St John were acrid rivals to the Templars and plotted with the corrupt papacy and the king of France to erase the powerful Templars from history.
Today the Society of Malte is almost a secular organization engaged in charity work and politics. Peyrefittes book is brilliant and entertaining.

Equator the uncharted territory

Equator is an illusion, a circle around the world linking places and people and seasons, summer in Montevideo and winter in Stockholm, Chuck in Greenwich Village and Isabella in Rome and Beatriz and Paul in London, Francine and George and Stella in Paris, Francois and Adma near Hudson River, Birgitta in Åstol, Cecilia, Eva, Lennart and Tuqan in Stockholm, Aida in Dubai, Silvia in Mexico, Mats in Ystad, Fabian in Malmö, all friends and partners in life and dreams.

Food I cooked today

Cecilia, Jan and me, went to a place where artists and local politics discussed the life in the suburbs, the quality and the engagement of people in their neighborhood.
I roasted a chicken to share, the wasps loved it! It was a fat ecological chicken and I left it in a marinade for ten hours. Soya sauce, honey, mustard, a lot of fresh chili and some sesame oil. It was a hit, the succulent flavor of the chicken mixed together with the marinade and the oil.
It was not a recipe I got, it was share invention, nice.

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