Putty in their hands
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy." Marcel Proust This is a first recipe and the book is Toast: the story of a boy's hunger, by Nigel Slater - his memoir about his childhood and youth. So not really a recipe book, but rather than disregard it I checked the first short piece - it is really a collection of chronologically arranged pieces - and I thought it was so wonderful really that I would go with it. The piece is called Toast 1 and it's about burnt toast an
6 days ago
Cooking in a mood
"Cooking is sorcery. Some days we desperately need its magic." Bim Adewunmi/The Guardian 'In a mood'. When we say that, we generally mean in a bad mood of some kind, not a good one - but the phrase technically belongs to both. This post is 'inspired' if that's the right word - 'stimulated' is probably more accurate - by a sad text conversation with a friend going through a bad time who in the course of the conversation said: "the process of cooking will occupy my scattered
Aug 7