Alicia Kennedy
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1 week ago |
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
My experiment in non-promotion of this workshop has gone about as well as you’d think! But I’m excited to work on people’s work with them. As noted through Monday’s “What Do You Want From Food Writing?” this book is considered a food memoir par excellence. My paperback copy of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food & Longing by Anya von Bremzen—our current book club selection—has been well marked by my hand.
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1 week ago |
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
In a 2013 essay on the Anya von Bremzen’s book Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing—our current Book Club pick—Gary Indiana begins:Since the decline of the pastoral lay, food writing, with its single-minded focus on the gratification of a primal urge, has become the genre closest to pornography in contemporary literature.
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2 weeks ago |
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
Jill Damatac’s book Dirty Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family is important for the story it tells of what happened to her family when the became undocumented in the U.S., but it’s also important for how she weaves mythology and recipes into the narrative, all working together to create an experience in which food is not the purpose but instead the backbone: which is what it usually is, right?
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2 weeks ago |
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
“This is a book for the servantless American cook who can be unconcerned on occasion with budgets, waistlines, time schedules, children’s meals, the parent-chauffeur-den-mother syndrome, or anything else which might interfere with the enjoyment of producing something wonderful to eat.” The oft-cited first line of Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child and Simone Beck really does have it all, doesn’t it?
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3 weeks ago |
aliciakennedy.news | Alicia Kennedy
RANDOM THOUGHT No. 1: It recently occurred to me that the people who are most my people are the other women who loved Kids in the Hall as adolescents. Did you always put on Comedy Central at 2 p.m. EST after school? Did you sometimes not know what was going on with these dudes who were always in middling-to-bad drag but love it regardless?
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