Food, stories and experiences, season by season
I spent the first week of middle school seated alone at a table for eight. A round table, that extended out from my lunch like a balloon, as if to encapsulate my aloneness. For seven days, I ate believing that there were two hundred and fifty sets of eyes on the back of my head. Watching [...]
My fingertips smell of cloves and orange peel. I’ve been making mincemeat. Dried fruit, brandy, apples and spice. I mixed everything together in a ceramic bowl and then packed the mixture away into little glass jars that will be opened successively throughout the month, for mince pies and other such things. I set the jars on [...]
I’ve been wanting to show you the rest of photos from visiting Lucinda in East Sussex. I was thinking to myself, now how will I ever show them AND fit in a recipe like I had promised? I’ve been telling you for weeks that I had a recipe to share with you, after all, and I do [...]
