Re-enact creaming
December 13, 2004
Mediamatic and CASCO’s performance night titled Re-enact was rife with food related performance art. My absolute favourite performer was Nezaket Ekici who oh so diva-liciously turned cream into butter with her bare right hand. It took 24 minutes or thereabouts. Everyone was aswoon!
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Dabba Wallah – git yer tiffin while it’s HOT
December 10, 2004
You’re a dutiful wife (actually I’m temporarily in-between relationships) and nothing short of your own love-imbued cuisine will suffice to nourish your office-bound husband for his lunchtime meal. Problem is you’re out in the suburbs of Mumbai and he’s situated downtown for the lunchtime hours. How are you going to get something hot in Lovey’s tummy?
Easy. You pay 150 rupees (EUR2,55/GBP1.70/USD3.40) per month for a Dabba Wallah service and let the ‘tiffin guy’ or lunchbox carrier bring the Mr. his grub.
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Next unto sallat she shall deliver forth all her fricassees…
December 9, 2004
This leafy green quote comes from Gervase Markham’s The English Housewife written in 1615 in a treatise about salads. These words are instructions describing the placement of dishes and the order of courses, starting with light leafy green salads and moving through salads with boiled and pickled vegetables. I have gleaned this tidbit from Cathy K. Kaufman’s article on 17th century salads on the Culinary Historians of New York website.
Take the buds of al kind of good Hearbes and a hanfull of French capers, seven or eight Dates cut in long slices, a hanfull of Raisins of the Sun,…
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