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Some words take long to make sense. I never understood the Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical thinking' but when the author Jessica Fechtor uses 'Magical thinking' it made sense.
Pizza Schleifer. My daughter too wanted to name her sister - Milk, Chocolate.
Some words take long to make sense. I never understood the Joan Didion's 'The Year of Magical thinking' but when the author Jessica Fechtor uses 'Magical thinking' it made sense.
Pizza Schleifer. My daughter too wanted to name her sister - Milk, Chocolate.
In 'Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals that Brought me Home',There are recipes. There is food. There is gathering. What the reader goes home after reading this book is a perception of food's role in sustaining life both physically and emotionally. We have to eat everyday. They say that death and taxes are certain but so are meals and laundry.
The author focuses on how getting involved in cooking is an affirmation that you are making it to eat, so there is a future of that. And its this vision that gets her through the tough time of dealing with a brain aneurysm.
Things like
what baking means -
"Baking Means you have more than enough: more flour, more butter, more eggs, to start, then more cake than you need for just you. It means you have something to give away. Baking is an act of generosity, and thereby an act of freedom.."
"Cooking before leaving home for someplace new means clinging to what's familiar before nothing is."
With ponderings like these, the author deifies food from a source of sustenance. On trips, we can buy food but your parents/family pack you something nice. In hospital postpartum, you have meals with room delivery service, but care packages from friends let you know that you are cared for.
I am going to hold onto the book for few recipes that I want to make
Marcella's Butter Almond Cake - Its simple with few ingredients
Kim Boyce's Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip cookies - anything with whole wheat
Whole Wheat Banana Bread - above reason and one should try all banana bread recipes
Cleveland Cassata cake - sounds very fancy, for a June bday
Janet's Coconut cake - for an Aug bday for a coconut lover.
I decided to read the book after going through the author's blog - Sweet Amandine. I liked her writing style there. Even in the book, the author pays a lot of attention to mundane things like waking up from a surgery.
The author focuses on how getting involved in cooking is an affirmation that you are making it to eat, so there is a future of that. And its this vision that gets her through the tough time of dealing with a brain aneurysm.
Things like
what baking means -
"Baking Means you have more than enough: more flour, more butter, more eggs, to start, then more cake than you need for just you. It means you have something to give away. Baking is an act of generosity, and thereby an act of freedom.."
"Cooking before leaving home for someplace new means clinging to what's familiar before nothing is."
With ponderings like these, the author deifies food from a source of sustenance. On trips, we can buy food but your parents/family pack you something nice. In hospital postpartum, you have meals with room delivery service, but care packages from friends let you know that you are cared for.
I am going to hold onto the book for few recipes that I want to make
Marcella's Butter Almond Cake - Its simple with few ingredients
Kim Boyce's Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip cookies - anything with whole wheat
Whole Wheat Banana Bread - above reason and one should try all banana bread recipes
Cleveland Cassata cake - sounds very fancy, for a June bday
Janet's Coconut cake - for an Aug bday for a coconut lover.
I decided to read the book after going through the author's blog - Sweet Amandine. I liked her writing style there. Even in the book, the author pays a lot of attention to mundane things like waking up from a surgery.
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