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Putting the Flash in Pansexual
The poem is built around a catalogue. And ends with an endorsement of self-naming. Which produces a retroactive double entendre cascade. Britteney Black Rose Kapri’s appliance-laden poem “Pansexual” in Black Queer Hoe yes, i do like pans and pots and … Continue reading
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per os / per nasum
It began with this bit and the rumour about vanilla. Screwpine (Pandanus amaryllifolius) In the West we forget the close relationship between perfume and flavourings. Odd to think that Parisian perfumiers once put it about that vanilla was poisonous to … Continue reading
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The Re-enchantment of Frugality
Massimo Bottura Food for Change European Investment Bank https://www.eib.org/en/publications/eib-big-ideas-food-for-change As the frenetic lives we are living might not give us that much time to think about food in a more conscious way, we have to slow down a little to … Continue reading
Salt, Biscuit Dough, and a Slow Oven
The gendered norms are evident in the call out: The Soft Way to your Husband’s Heart. Interestingly one way is through producing something crunchy to nibble on: nibblers. Twice baked marvel. Monarch Cake and Pastry Flour is still available in … Continue reading
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Cooking or Games of Stage & Set
Via Naomi Duguid http://naomiduguid.com/twitter/ Nigella Lawson “Home Cooking Can Be a Feminist Act” https://www.lennyletter.com/story/nigella-lawson-home-cooking-can-be-a-feminist-act Real cooking is what happens in the home. Restaurant cooking can be fabulous, inspiring, transcendent, and oh-so-marvelous in many ways, but for me it will always … Continue reading
To Cook, To Write, To Control
Jane Kramer The Reporter’s Kitchen The cooking that helps my writing is slow cooking, the kind of cooking where you take control of your ingredients so that whatever it is you’re making doesn’t run away with you, the way words … Continue reading
Meat, Milk and the Etcetera
Four is an easy number to remember. And Four for Fitness has a lovely alliteration. This from 1972 Betty Crocker New Boys and Girls Cookbook Compare with the current Canada Food Guide. Notice how the Milk and Meat categories of … Continue reading
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« Du beurre ! Donnez-moi du beurre ! Toujours du beurre ! »
The succession of the aphorisms here is like the judicious staging of the various courses of a fine meal. They satisfy by their simplicity. A good apprentice cook must be as polite without he dishwasher as with the chef. Success … Continue reading
uncorrupted pleasure
It was Nigel Slater who put me on to Nigella Lawson. And How to Eat was acquired and it sat on the shelf until one day I turned its pages to see what the author might have to say about … Continue reading
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Doing the Math
The abacus handling. The moral calculus. The arithmetic serves the argument. Jonathan Safran Foer writes about food politics. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/28/meat-of-the-matter-the-inconvenient-truth-about-what-we-eat Some argue that plant-based eating is elitist. They are either misinformed, or knowingly taking the favourite emergency exit of privileged, performatively … Continue reading
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