My body needs pulses. It needs fish. It needs tomatoes. It needs apples and it needs nuts. This is a standard situation, but it’s one made more acute by what I’ve been consuming for the past twelve days. None of those are things which appear that frequently on the menus of restaurants in Bruges, […]
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Sometimes dishes come from escapist inspiration. It’s about conjuring a memory of time spent away, and recreating the experience of ‘other’. You might write elegiac blog posts about them (and perhaps put a whole bunch of them in a book). Some of those meals find their way into anecdotes which you store up for dull […]
Roast pork was not something I ate a lot of before we moved to the UK. We were roast lamb-on-a-special-occasion people, occasionally a large, rosy rump of beef for a crowd. But a feast of pig- that other white meat- was not something I grew up with. I remember the first time I went to […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Before he was the President who emancipated slaves, Abraham Lincoln was a small child born into a log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. What follows is a drink that’s more appropriate for the man than the boy. It’s one that accords with Euclid’s first common notion; ‘things which […]
The film: The dish: The reason: Tehran in November 1979 wasn’t a terrific place for six American diplomats to be hiding out in the Canadian embassy. Thank goodness for CIA operative Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) and ‘the best bad idea we have’. A phony science fiction film scouting mission and a cluster of fake Canadian […]