I’m like the four year-old who’s just found out how to activate adults: by sneaking the word why into every sentence. And why am I so empowered? In a few days, I’ll be taking a course – not of antibiotics but a recommended antidote to help avoid illness. I’m to learn about food. Precisely, a short course on food writing. I’m hungry for how the many dishes of meals are processed from raw to print. How media cooks up itself. And back to why. Why am I eating what I’m eating now?
Archive for April, 2009
Yogurt: Colouring In the Numbers
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Write into Flavour
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All around me the sounds of sip, gargle, multiple gargles, spit, are becoming increasingly acceptable. I’m here at the Writers’ Centre with tutor, John Newton, and 13 other tongues, to do food. “In all aspects” as the course contents detail. Over three Saturdays. A task of similar proportions to a degustation menu you might think. So I’m taking this course, bite by bite. Today we are focussing on turning flavour into words. And it’s not until my first sip of olive oil that I realise how unprepared my flavour brain is for this event. Thesaurus, where are you.
