This
simple creation started out as ideas taken from Korean and Indian
street vendors, with a nod to the classic French sandwiches, Monte
Cristo, and Croque Monsieur. It is to honor a gay icon of film Casey
Donovan. Read about him after the recipe and use as a topic for
brunch conversation.
This
creation is a classic to serve alongside a beautiful mimosa and some
home fries. You'll have the perfect breakfast, lunch, or any brunch.
Eggs, bread, and cheese is all it takes. Perfect it and experiment
with different things to add!
Ingredients:
2
slices bread, crusts removed
3
eggs
1
Tbs mayonnaise
pinch
of baking soda
2
slices of American cheese
2
Tbs butter + oil for frying
1
tsp sugar
Directions:
Cut
the crusts off of 2 pieces of bread with a sharp knife.
Heat
skillet with the mix of oil and butter.
Whip
the eggs in a small bowl with the mayonnaise and a pinch of baking
soda.
Pour
into the hot skillet.
Lay
each piece of bread into the egg mixture and flip each over. This
distributes the egg into the bread well.
Lay
a piece of cheese on each slice of bread. Let cook until the edges
start to bubble on the eggs.
Using
the spatula, turn up the overflow of egg onto each piece of bread.
Then
fold one piece over the other. Cover until the egg start to show
traces of brown.
Slide
off onto a plate and lightly sprinkle with the sugar.
Another
time, try adding a slice of dell ham to the cheese before you fold
for a version of a Monte
Cristo. Sprinkle with powdered mustard or use Gruyere cheese if you
like. Develop this into your own special easy presentation.
For
our music:
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To
nourish, support and maintain.
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to
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Casey Donovan
Born November 2, 1943,
Casey Donovan was an iconic gay male pornographic actor from the late
1960s until the mid-1980s during the Golden Age of Porn.
Casey was born John Calvin
Culver in East Bloomfield, New York. He attended State University of
New York and graduated in 1965.
He went on to take a job
at a private school but was fired during his second year following an
altercation where he physically disciplined a female student
(reportedly the daughter of actor Eli Wallach).
At this point Culver
started working as an paid escort. Through one of his clients, Culver
landed a spot with the Wilhelmina Models modeling agency, commanding
an hourly rate of $60 ($400 in today's terms).
He continued to pursue
stage work, landing an understudy job in 1969 in the Off-Broadway
gay-themed play And Puppy Dog Tails, making his Broadway debut
in 1970 in the Native American-themed production Brave and a
co-starring role in the off-Broadway play Circle in the Water
(also in 1970).
In 1971, he was offered to
appear in Casey, a gay pornographic film in which Culver
played the title role. The film was about a gay man who is visited by
his fairy godmother Wanda (Culver playing a dual role in drag), and
is granted a series of wishes which make him sexually irresistible to
other men. Culver later took the title character's name, Casey, and
that of the popular singer-songwriter Donovan to create the stage
name he would use in all his other erotic roles.
His world changed when he
appeared in the film that would cement his status as a gay icon, Boys
in the Sand, in 1971.
The film was an instant
success and is considered one of the great classics of male erotic
cinema.
Boys in the Sand led by example in almost
every area. It was the first hardcore gay film to include credits for
cast and crew, although many used noms de porn. It was the
first to be advertised in The New York Times and
the first to be reviewed by Variety; it appeared on the
magazine’s list of the fifty top-grossing movies for almost three
months. Many considered it “an artistically serious hardcore film”
and it helped to define “porn chic,” which became popular in the
early seventies.
In an era when it was illegal in almost every state
and many considered it to be shameful, dishonorable, and malignant,
Boys in the Sand presented
same-sex intimacy between consenting adults as completely normal and
deeply satisfying. Donovan was uninhibited, even exuberant, about his
sexual self, which he continued to validate and celebrate across his
career both on screen and off.
With the success and
celebrity he garnered from the film, he tried to cross over into
mainstream movies. Attempts to build on his notoriety failed, but
Donovan stayed being a bankable star in the adult industry for the
next 15 years.
Outside his adult film
career, Donovan continued to pursue stage work. In 1972, he was cast
in a short-lived Broadway revival of Captain Brassbound's
Conversion. Star Ingrid Bergman described him as "having the
same kind and as much charisma as Robert Redford." He then
landed a small role in the 1973 Lincoln Center production of The
Merchant of Venice,
which was praised as having "vivid appeal."
In 1974, Donovan starred
as Brian, a gay bathhouse attendant, in the play Tubstrip. While the
play was critically deemed entertaining enough to its target gay
audience (having earned, in the words of one critic, a "nationwide
gay housekeeping seal of approval") Donovan himself was judged
as simply "no better nor worse [an] actor than most of the
others [in the cast]."
Donovan's iconic status
allowed him to build a lucrative career as a high-priced escort,
though it would cost him his legitimate modeling career as more and
more clients made the connection between the model Culver and the
porn star Donovan.
Tom Tryon
In 1973, at the height of
his popularity, Donovan met actor-turned-writer Tom Tryon, and the
two entered into a long-term relationship that lasted 4 years. Tryon
was deeply closeted and grew increasingly disturbed by Donovan's
notoriety.
In 1978, Donovan purchased
a house in Key West, Florida, to run as a bed and breakfast dubbed
"Casa Donovan." He struggled to keep it, but it failed.
More successful was his time as a celebrity tour guide, conducting
all-gay trips in partnership with an outfit called Star Tours to
Italy, China, Peru and other places.
In 1983, he turned his
hand to producing, with an unsuccessful Broadway revival of Terrence
McNally's play The Ritz in which he also appeared.
By 1985, Donovan's health
had begun to deteriorate, as he had contracted HIV. He had counseled
his fans through his "Ask Casey" column as early as 1982 to
reduce their number of sex partners and take steps to preserve their
health, and urged them to be tested for HIV once the test was
developed.
Donovan died in 1987
of an AIDS-related pulmonary infection in Inverness, Florida, aged
43. We lost a pioneer in the crusade for sexual freedom.
Casey Donovan did not
organize rallies or picket businesses or lobby for political change.
In an era when so many of us were deeply closeted and cowered by the
cultural and legal stigmata placed upon gay men, he embodied the
reality that “Gay is Good,” that our sexual desires are true and
valid, that gay intimacy is normal and natural, and that gay life can
be open, joyous, and without guilt.
