Creme Saver

The Sister of the Chicken is coming to town! Yahoo! Vegetarian power forever!

CREMESAVERS "PERFECT LITTLE SELF-INDULGENCE" ESSAY CONTEST

The Rules: To enter tell in 100 words or less about your perfect little self-indulgence and how you pursue simple pleasures, along with one photo illustrating this.

The Prize: Four grand prize winners will each receive a 2 night/3 day trip package for two adults to the Red Mountain Spa in Utah, gourmet meals, complimentary daily activities such as guided hikes, nutrition classes and healthy living classes; $300 in resort credit for spa services and $200 spending money.


Chicken’s Entry: Every day there’s the 8 a.m. commute on a packed subway train, no place to sit and people pressed all around—no wonder the city’s bustle exhausts me. But at the end of the week comes my perfect little self-indulgence: hunting for wild mushrooms. Into the woods I go, rooting around under leaves and logs to the tune of curious birds and nothing else. There’s no simpler, more satisfying way to pass the day than getting back to nature and appreciating what it has to give: wild mushrooms and a stroll through the woods. Perfect little self-indulgence in an instant.

Sister of the Chicken Entry: My perfect little indulgence is an escape to the theater. No popcorn scented movie houses for me. Watching real people enact real drama on stage is what I’m all about. As the lights go down and my unknown neighbors settle around me, I pop a Creme Saver and let the theater magic sweep me away. With a simple stage, some props and a story as compelling as it is thoughtfully written, I relish the fact that from Shakespeare to Caryl Churchill, there is nothing as timelessly human as a sweet bite of theater.