Food, stories and experiences, season by season
It’s been a year today since I lost my dad. Some of you will possibly relate to the sense of panic I have about this day passing. Because in that year after a loved one’s death, that person is somehow kept alive to you through the comparison of time: last year on this day, we [...]
I tend to enjoy cooking projects that facilitate day-dreaming. Tasks that involve a a rhythm of sorts, a lulling repetition that begs the mind to wander — chopping, kneading — though I think pot stirring is best since you don’t run the danger of chopping your fingers off. Perhaps it’s because I’m lazy at heart and [...]
And all of a sudden it’s spring. I had been wondering how it would happen here – or if it would at all. Because what I’m used to, spending most of my adult life in places buried under snow for at least four months out of the year, is a spring that comes on so [...]
